Open-Plug and AT4 wireless cooperate to deliver best-in-class Conformance Testing Services to Handset Makers

Sophia-Antipolis, France and Malaga, Spain – May 25th, 2007 – Open-Plug, a leading supplier of mass market software platforms for the handset industry, and AT4 wireless, a global supplier of Testing Services and Solutions for wired and wireless technologies, today announced that they have established a cooperation agreement to offer best-in-class conformance testing services to handset makers using Open-Plug ELIPS Framework software platform worldwide.

As part of its partnership with Open-Plug, AT4 wireless will develop skills on the Open-Plug ELIPS software platform. This will enable AT4 wireless to provide conformance testing services in an optimal way to Handset Makers using ELIPS in order to help them to reduce time and costs. Open-Plug and AT4 wireless will also cooperate to pre-certify ELIPS on selected wireless chipsets by performing conformance testing on reference chipset platforms. This will ensure an optimal integration of the software on the reference platform to ease handset development thus accelerating the final handset conformance testing.

Through this agreement, Open-Plug and AT4 wireless offer their customers a faster way to launch their products by securing this critical conformance testing phase.

“We were already able to offer ‘one-stop-shop’ licensing for a complete handset software solution including applications from leading software vendors,” said Eric Baissus, CEO of Open-Plug. “We wanted to go one step further by offering our customers the capability to have access to conformance testing services for a better time-to-market. We are happy to cooperate with AT4 wireless, the well recognized lab in this field of expertise”.

AT4 wireless, through its Division of laboratories, is specialized in conformance and interoperability testing services for the handset makers worldwide. AT4 wireless is specifically offering consulting, conformance, field testing and regulatory testing for devices based on 2G and 3G standards. Furthermore, AT4 wireless offers conformance and interoperability testing services for a wide variety of technologies that are being integrated increasingly in mobile handsets at this moment, as Bluetooth, RFID, WiFi, WiMAX, etc., “this represents a significant advantage for any customer who can have all testing services required in one single location” – quoted Mr Juan Carlos Mora, Technical Director at AT4 wireless laboratories. “We are proud to be part of the Open-Plug Ecosystem for the benefits of handset makers.”

Based on Open-Plug’s unique and patented Flexibleware™ technology, the ELIPS platform enables the rapid development of mass market phones -from low-end to high-end- which represent more than 90% of the market. With its technology, Open- Plug has successfully adapted the component-based approach to the embedded software industry, delivering the flexibility of a true modular architecture on massmarket terminals, with neither resource nor power consumption penalty. ELIPS is available on the most popular Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS).

About Open-Plug
Open-Plug creates and commercializes the first open software framework and MMI designed for mass-market phones. The Open-Plug ELIPS Product Suite relies on a unique component based technology, which drastically simplifies and secures all the phases of mobile phone software development, integration and deployment. It enables mobile operators and handset makers to create, update and customize their phones in record time, while keeping full control over their design and development cycle. Created in 2002, Open-Plug is a private company financed by leading international venture capital investors. Headquartered in France, the company also operates from its sales and support office in Taipei, Taiwan R.O.C Open-Plug is a founding member and an active promoter of the LiPS Forum. For more information, visit www.openplug.com

About AT4 wireless
Centro de Tecnologia de las Comunicaciones, S.A. (AT4 wireless) is a global supplier of Testing Solutions for wired and wireless technologies (GSM/GPRS, EDGE, W-CDMA, HSDPA; WiMAX, Bluetooth, WiFi, RFID, DECT and PSTN). Its services portfolio ranges from conformance, regulatory and interoperability testing services to test systems development, world-wide compliance services, training and consulting. AT4 Wireless, previously known as CETECOM Spain was founded in 1991 and has 250 employees, 80 percent of whom are engineers. The company has three divisions: AT4 Labs which is an independent test lab for wireless telecommunications technologies and products. AT4 Systems develops conformance and interoperability test systems for various wireless technologies including WiMAX. AT4 Engineering and Solutions develops software applications and offers professional services to telecom network operators. For more information, visit www.at4wireless.com