ModeLabs and Open-Plug to deploy Push-To-Talk terminals on the market

ModeLabs and Open-Plug enter an agreement to deploy a variety of Push-to-Talk (P2T) enabled Mobile Phones on the market

Sophia Antipolis, France, 23rd February 2004 – ModeLabs, a provider of vertical application devices and turn-key service solutions for operators, and Open-Plug, an innovative provider of embedded software frameworks for the mobile phone industry, have entered into an agreement to provide a range of wireless terminals supporting Push-to-Talk (P2T).

The two companies decided to combine their intellectual property and technology to address the growing need for network operators to rapidly deploy turn-key value-added solutions. Under the agreement, operator specific implementations of P2T based terminals will be developed and sold under operator’s brand name or ModeLabs own brand. ModeLabs’ solutions address the operator’s need for new service deployment, from the business evaluation phase to market deployment including handset specification, engineering and supply channel management.

The offering is based on Open-Plug’s Linux-FlexibleWareTM which enables easy and rapid integration and deployment of customised terminals on the market. In addition, Open-Plug’s technology enables field upgrades of any part of the terminal software.

“ModeLabs is addressing a real market need by helping operators to quickly deploy customised value-added services like P2T with a complete solution including terminals,” said Eric Baissus, CEO of Open-Plug. He added, “Network operators are demanding more responsiveness from the wireless terminal industry. We are proud to be part of ModeLabs and the unique market proposition that it offers. The FlexibleWare technology benefits in terms of market responsiveness and flexibility for customisation are maximised”.

“The mobile terminal industry has tremendous bottlenecks in the rapid supply of phones supporting new services like P2T. ModeLabs objective is to overcome them and provide operators with a complete solution, including a phone offering tailored to their needs” said Henri-Nicolas Olivier, of ModeLabs, “Time to market, customisation flexibility, service deployment and maintenance/evolution through Over-The-Air updates are key differentiators for us, Open-Plug’s Linux FlexibleWareTM offering provides these features in an easy to deploy, safe and non- intrusive way ”.

 Linux-FlexibleWare™ Offering

The Linux™ FlexibleWare™ suite from Open-Plug opens proprietary wireless modem platforms to the Linux™ developer community without any trade-off in term of cost and robustness. It consists of the FlexibleWare™ tool suite and the FlexibleWare™ framework (a small embedded engine running on the mobile phone). The tool suite includes a Software Development Kit (SDK) for software developers, that can be plugged to existing developer IDE and which analyses any LINUX-based codes and transforms them into optimized easy-to-integrate isolated software components. The embedded framework is in charge of managing the so-generated software components in a highly optimized way, when installed on the terminal. The framework does not require any specific modificatio ns and can be implemented on any terminal platform in a few weeks.

About ModeLabs:

The “Vertical Application Devices Factory ”:

Located in Paris-Levallois and Hong Kong, ModeLabs delivers to fix and mobile telecom operators complete solutions that combine dedicated terminals with services, to help them grow their ARPU (average revenue per user). With both a product and a services culture, ModeLabs benefits from the convergence and hyper segmentation trends on the telecom markets.

ModeLabs,

7, avenue G. Pompidou - 92593 Levallois - France

13/F Wah Kit commercial center - 302 Des Voeux Road - Central – Hong Kong

Phone + 33 1 47 48 25 00

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About Open-Plug:

Open-Plug was founded in the summer of 2002 by a team of wireless industry experts with a strong background in embedded mobile software architecture development, and familiar with the quickly expanding challenges associated with it. The company’s aim is to open mass market mobile software platforms to quick and robust service deployment by providing a unique, non- intrusive framework for creating, integrating, validating and updating mobile phone software.

Open-Plug , 2600 Route des Crêtes, BP 176, 06903 Sophia-Antipolis, France

Tel: +33 4 97 24 50 50

Fax: +33 4 97 24 50 79

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http://www.open-plug.com