Dallas, Texas, AT&T* today announced that it has completed its acquisition of Centennial Communications Corp. (Nasdaq:CYCL). The acquisition enhances AT&T's network coverage across the Midwest and Southeast United States and in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

The combination of the two companies' wireless networks will allow AT&T to deliver broader wireless coverage, including to approximately 893,000 former Centennial wireless subscribers.1 With the addition of Centennial, AT&T also expands its wired network coverage to Puerto Rico, enhancing service for its business customers with operations there.

'The addition of Centennial will enhance AT&T's assets in wireless — a strategic priority and one of our biggest growth drivers — and service for customers of both companies,' said Ralph de la Vega, president and chief executive officer of AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets. 'We're excited to give Centennial wireless subscribers access to the nation's fastest 3G network plus our premier lineup of smartphones and unmatched portfolio of applications and services.

'We'll also improve network reliability for our wireless subscribers who will be able to make on-network calls in the Centennial footprint,' said de la Vega. 'And as Centennial's broadband network in Puerto Rico is integrated with AT&T's extensive global network and advanced service offerings, we'll offer corporations that operate in Puerto Rico the benefits of end-to-end service over a single network.'

Integration Plans
AT&T plans to integrate Centennial's networks and products with AT&T's networks and product portfolio. The transaction extends AT&T's wireless network coverage in primarily rural areas of Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, Ohio and Texas as well as enhances coverage in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

In the mainland U.S., AT&T will move quickly to rebrand Centennial as AT&T and to make AT&T's innovative products and services available to Centennial's customers.2 By late January 2010, AT&T products and services will be available at more than 100 Centennial retail locations. Within the same timeframe, AT&T signage will be installed in all Centennial locations. Former Centennial wireless subscribers may keep their existing rate plans, but they will also have the opportunity to migrate to AT&T rate plans without activation or upgrade fees. Existing AT&T customer contracts will not change.

In Puerto Rico, the Centennial brand will continue through mid-2010. AT&T will honor the current rate plans and contracts of Centennial wireless subscribers. AT&T expects to make the full portfolio of AT&T products and services available in Centennial locations in Puerto Rico in the third quarter of 2010. At that point, Centennial customers will have the opportunity to migrate to AT&T rate plans without activation or upgrade fees. Existing AT&T customer contracts in Puerto Rico will not change.

To provide the best experience possible for Centennial customers who choose to migrate to AT&T service, prior to the transition, AT&T plans to deploy 3G at more than 200 sites in Centennial's markets. This deployment plan includes adding 3G capabilities at more than 100 sites and expanding 3G coverage and capacity at approximately 100 sites.

Centennial customers who choose AT&T plans will enjoy significant benefits as they join the AT&T network. AT&T offers the best wireless coverage worldwide, with more phones working in more places; more applications running over its network; and access to the nation's fastest 3G network, which will get even faster as AT&T rolls out HSPA 7.2 technology in advance of its deployment of 4G LTE service. And unlike other wireless networks, AT&T's network enables subscribers to talk and e-mail or surf the Web at the same time — one of the reasons, along with the industry's leading lineup of devices, that significantly more smartphone users have chosen AT&T over other wireless carriers. Centennial customers who choose select smartphones and LaptopConnect cards will have access to AT&T's Wi-Fi hot spot network, the largest in the U.S. with more than 20,000 hot spots, at no additional charge. AT&T will also offer Centennial subscribers Rollover® Minutes, a feature exclusive to AT&T, as well as a mobile-to-mobile calling community of nearly 82 million3 members.

Centennial's wired network assets in Puerto Rico will also allow AT&T to better serve business customers with a presence in Puerto Rico.AT&T will continue to provide switched voice, high-capacity data and Internet Protocol solutions for business customers in Puerto Rico. Existing Centennial customers will now have access to new technologies, to AT&T's innovative products and to both wireline and wireless services from AT&T.

Merger Synergies and Financials
The acquisition of Centennial will provide AT&T opportunities for synergies in areas such as corporate functions, advertising, customer care and network operations. AT&T expects upfront integration costs will result in minimal dilution to EPS and cash flow in 2009. As previously announced, Centennial stockholders will receive $8.50 per share in cash. Including net debt, the transaction is valued at $2.7 billion. AT&T will take prompt actions to redeem all of Centennial's outstanding debt under its indentures and credit agreement.

Regulatory Approval Process
AT&T's acquisition of Centennial has been reviewed and approved by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Pursuant to a consent decree, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Attorney General of the State of Louisiana have agreed to permit the merger to close.

As a result of the FCC and DOJ review processes, AT&T agreed to divest operations in eight service areas: Alexandria, La., Lafayette, La., LA-3 (DeSoto), LA-5 (Beauregard), LA-6 (Iberville), LA-7 (West Feliciana), MS-8 (Claiborne) and MS-9 (Copiah). Per the terms of a definitive agreement signed in May 2009, AT&T has agreed to divest to Verizon Wireless five of the Centennial service areas covered under the DOJ ruling. These five service areas are Lafayette, La., LA-5 (Beauregard), LA-6 (Iberville), LA-7 (West Feliciana) and MS-8 (Claiborne). AT&T now expects that this transaction will close in the first quarter of 2010, once the companies obtain regulatory approvals. AT&T also has a definitive agreement with Verizon Wireless to acquire wireless properties Verizon Wireless is divesting as a result of its acquisition of Alltel. That transaction is also subject to regulatory approvals and is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2009.

To secure FCC approval of the transaction, AT&T committed to honor agreements for roaming on Centennial's network. AT&T will honor existing roaming agreements with other carriers for the life of the contract — or, for carriers with fewer than 10 million subscribers, will maintain the roaming agreement for at least four years or the full term of the agreement with Centennial, whichever is longer. AT&T also agreed to certain measures restricting the flow of competitive information between AT&T and América Móvil. AT&T is a minority shareholder in América Móvil, which also provides telecommunications services in Puerto Rico.

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Nortel* [OTC: NRTLQ] has recently won significant public sector deals in several countries across the Asia Pacific region that cover a range of emerging networking technologies including Unified Communications (UC), Ethernet Routing Switches, contact center deployments and virtual collaboration environments.

Governments are traditionally conservative in their technology buying patterns with intense scrutiny on technology decisions and long buying cycles. Nortel's continued growth in the government sector is a clear indicator of the industry's confidence in Nortel's technology and its long term ability to meet customer needs.

Nortel has seen recent success with public sector investments in Australia and New Zealand , Greater China, India , South East Asia and Japan . Central and local government departments, healthcare institutions, educational establishments, court systems, tax offices, energy and transport network providers have all upgraded or deployed new communications environments as the region's central services have dramatically improved the way in which they communicate both internally and with their external stakeholders such as citizens, suppliers and other government departments.

The government court systems in two of the region's most populous cities have invested in Nortel Unified Communications and Ethernet Routing Switch solutions. There are changing demands within modern courts, as court employees are required to be available to their clients and co-workers anytime, anywhere. This has created a high demand for end-to-end UC technologies, including full 10GE backbone support to the desktop, and leading edge UC applications. In one instance, the court was able to streamline its operations by deploying a powerful and secure data network from Nortel to support a centralized judicial system database.

In education, trials and deployments of Nortel's virtual world application known as web.alive are providing an immersive learning experience for students in both primary school and university environments. Web.alive is a virtual world software application that provides a network secured virtual world platform for collaboration, assisted virtual learning and training applications. The solution allows education providers to adapt teaching methods to the modern communications-rich world, enhancing student attention, engagement and retention. This v irtual world collaboration environment is helping learning centers deal with one of the major drawbacks of other communication technologies: the ability to give users a 'real-life' experience that is more interactive and intuitive. It is another example of how Nortel's technology is supporting the learning needs of students across the region – with other major educational deployments announced in recent times in Australia, India, Japan and South East Asia. And learning centers across the region are now looking to technology solutions as a way of safeguarding educational continuity in the face of the continued threat of a more severe swine flu pandemic.

With Nortel's unified communications solution in place, employees at Porirua City Council in New Zealand are now more accessible to their colleagues, suppliers and customers whether they are in the office or performing their duties off-site – meaning enhanced productivity and increased efficiency. The solution also allows Porirua City Council to address the unique needs of its mobile workforce, which forms over 30% of the organization and which has previously had to manage a variety of systems to stay in touch. The new multimedia contact center solution, which enables UC capabilities such as integrated voice, email, fax and instant messaging, will drive up customer service quality on offerings such as holiday programs and inspection bookings, with a focus on increased speed and an enhanced user experience.

In India , Nortel has supported the huge investment in new airport infrastructure across the country with significant voice and data solutions, together with ongoing managed service deals, in a number of the country's new international airports, including those in Mumbai, Bangalore , Delhi and Hyderabad .

And in the healthcare sector, Nortel's solutions are helping speed patient discharge procedures, improve staff efficiency, enable better communications for a mobile workforce, and improve the quality of patient care. Agile clinical communications use many of the voice and data networks components that already exist in a hospital to connect the disparate systems, people and processes in order to maximize return on investment in clinical systems and infrastructure. Healthcare providers and teaching hospitals from Singapore to Japan are relying on Nortel's solutions to support their critical communications needs.

EXAMPLES OF HOW NORTEL'S SOLUTIONS ARE SUPPORTING PUBIC SECTOR INITIATIVES

* New Zealand Public Service Association Gets Unified With Nortel and Gen-i - The New Zealand Public Service Association (PSA), New Zealand 's largest union with more than 57,000 registered members, expects to save up to 18 percent annually on call fees by migrating to a unified communications network from Nortel, Microsoft and implementation partner Gen-i. The solution gives PSA new functionality - such as unified messaging and presence - that allows operators to instantly 'see' the status of their colleagues and know exactly how to reach them, be it by phone or e-mail. The system also creates a single collection point for voicemails for all staff so no message goes unanswered.
* Taiwan Post Secures Business Continuity with Nortel Metro Ethernet Soluion - Taiwan Post, the largest postal, banking and insurance services provider in Taiwan , ensures customers will continue to be served and catastrophic failure to business operations averted in the event of disaster through a Nortel Metro Ethernet solution. Taiwan Post is ensuring business continuity with Metro Ethernet technology by enabling real-time information backup, access and recovery.
* Nortel Metro Ethernet Solution Helps Shanghai Metro Line 1 Trains Run on Time - With the Nortel Metro Ethernet solution in place, CBDTS will transmit information relating to wireless access systems, electronic monitoring, digital television and broadcasting, including comprehensive network monitoring and alerting tools. All operational and management information - voice, data and video - will be securely and accurately transmitted and monitored, ensuring seamless communications among train staff and access to the PIS (Passenger Information System) at all times.
* Nortel Provides Network Infrastructure for Commonwealth Youth Games 2008 - The Commonwealth Youth Games 2008, held in Pune , India from October 12 to 18, ran on a next-generation data network infrastructure set up by Nortel. The always-on, highly available network supporting 1,000 users, ran multimedia applications including real-time schedule updating, statistical analysis, resource coordination and media coverage helping ensure the Commonwealth Youth Games 2008 ran smoothly.
* Japan 's Kyushu University Hospital has improved patient care by fostering staff collaboration over a new medical information network based on Nortel's clinical-grade Healthcare Solutions portfolio. And in Taiwan , the wireless Taiwan Mobile Healthcare Services give Taipei-based doctors virtual access to patient medical records, high-quality diagnostic images and video, and other innovative connectivity services.
* The University of the East (UE) in the Philippines has selected Nortel to help upgrade its information technology infrastructure and to boost the performance of all its computerized and web applications systems. With this system, UE students, faculty and personnel can access UE's centralized database enabling quicker, easier, and more efficient academic, financial and administrative transactions.
* Australia 's renowned RMIT University has upgraded its Nortel data network to support new, high-bandwidth services such as media streaming, YouTube feeds and videoconferencing for staff and students across 220 campus locations. The data network allows the University to drive high-bandwidth media streaming applications across its 12,500 PCs without affecting the performance of business-critical communications and media-intense research applications.
* The Victorian Education and Research Network (VERNet) has deployed a Nortel Metro Ethernet Solution to significantly boost network capacity to provide member institutions with 'always on' high-speed broadband connectivity. This allows more than 100 research and education institutions in the state of Victoria to introduce services such as real-time, high-definition video broadcasts, offsite disaster recovery and connections to radio telescopes.
* National University of Malaysia Unleashes Student Learning With Nortel - Formed to deliver an innovative education with roots in traditional knowledge and culture, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia(UKM) is expanding its online usage by introducing a range of online applications including e-learning, network-intensive research applications, VoIP, IPTV and more. These applications empower students and faculty to teach and learn in collaborative new ways, and their successful deployment provides an important competitive differentiator for universities.

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François Lançon, leader, enterprise, Nortel Asia/EMEA

'Government agencies and departments face their very own set of business, policy and network technology challenges. Nortel is working with governments and public sector institutions across the Asia Pacific region to improve communications and collaboration, helping governments in their quest to better serve citizens, businesses and their community, and protecting government information, critical infrastructure and key assets. '

Peter van der Burg, Manager, Information Systems, Porirua City Council

'The key driver in engaging Nortel through its partner Gen-i was that the time had come to update our existing Nortel PABX – which no longer had the capacity to serve the growing communication needs of some of our new sites. Nortel helped us analyze our current and future communications needs and provided us with a clear development roadmap. We now have a platform in place that will provide us with a fully unified communications solution to service the ever changing needs of the community.'

'As a first step, the new technology is already helping to provide a better workplace environment that we think will be instrumental in both retaining and attracting new staff. Providing a way of measuring and improving our customer service performance will allow us to develop a more proactive approach, bringing us closer to our customers and their needs. Future services such as federated instant messaging and the ability to link communications into our other business processes will enable us to meet and exceed the expectations of all those who interface with the Council.'

About Nortel

Nortel delivers communications capabilities that make the promise of Business Made Simple a reality for our customers. Our next-generation technologies, for both service provider and enterprise networks, support multimedia and business-critical applications. Nortel's technologies are designed to help eliminate today's barriers to efficiency, speed and performance by simplifying networks and connecting people to the information they need, when they need it. For more information, visit Nortel on the Web at www.nortel.com . For the latest Nortel news, visit www.nortel.com/news .

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Ericsson is the world's leading provider of technology and services to telecom operators. Ericsson is the leader in 2G, 3G and 4G mobile technologies, and provides support for networks with over 1 billion subscribers and has a leading position in managed services. The company's portfolio comprises of mobile and fixed network infrastructure, telecom services, software, broadband and multimedia solutions for operators, enterprises and the media industry. The Sony Ericsson and ST-Ericsson joint ventures provide consumers with feature-rich personal mobile devices.

Ericsson is advancing its vision of "to be the prime driver in an all-communicating world" through innovation, technology, and sustainable business solutions. Working in 175 countries, more than 75,000 employees generated revenue of SEK 209 billion (USD 32.2 billion) in 2008. Founded in 1876 with the headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden, Ericsson is listed on OMX NASDAQ, Stockholm and NASDAQ New York.

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Completion is conditional upon approval by the relevant authorities and remains expected in the first half of 2010 as previously indicated. The agreement is subject to the approval of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Telekom and the Board of Directors of France Telecom. Timotheus Höttges, CFO of Deutsche Telekom, said: "This joint venture is based on the full commitment of Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom to a long term partnership. The negotiations were conducted in a fair way on both sides and I am certain that this spirit of professionalism and partnership will shape the future of our joint venture. It will set new standards as the number one in the UK mobile market."

Gervais Pellissier, deputy CEO in charge of Group Finance & Information Systems, said: "The relative terms of the transaction as announced on 8 September were fully confirmed. I would like to stress the excellent cooperation between the teams of Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom, which enabled us to deliver on the timing and process objectives which we set out in September. This is an important step towards our objective of establishing an excellent platform to deliver operational synergies and offer innovative and high quality services to our customers."

About Deutsche Telekom
Deutsche Telekom is one of the leading integrated telecommunications companies worldwide with approx. 151 million mobile customers, around 39 million fixed network lines and approx. 15 million broadband lines (as of September 30, 2009). The group is present in around 50 countries worldwide with approx. 260,000 employees (as of September 30, 2009). In the first three quarters of 2009 Deutsche Telekom generated more than half of its revenues of EUR 48.4 billion outside of Germany. Major subsidiaries in Europe include the integrated telecoms providers OTE in Greece, Magyar Telekom in Hungary, T-Hrvatski Telekom in Croatia and Slovak Telekom in Slovakia. The group has mobile communications subsidiaries in Germany, the US, the UK, Greece, The Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Czech Republic , Croatia, Hungary, Slovakia, Greece, Romania, Bulgaria, FYROM and Montenegro. Deutsche Telekom operates three product brands: T-Home provides state-of-the-art fixed network infrastructures, fast internet access and innovative multimedia services such as IPTV. T-Mobile, on of the world's leading mobile service companies, provides a comprehensive portfolio of mobile voice and data services in Europe and the US, as well as mobile broadband services. T-Mobile is exclusive partner for the Apple iPHone in Germany, The Netherlands, Hungary and Croatia. In addition, T-Mobile markets the iPhone in a further eight European countries. T-Systems, the business customer operation of Deutsche Telekom, offers integrated ICT solutions to multinational customers. For further information please visit www.telekom.com.

About France Telecom
France Telecom, one of the world's leading telecommunications operators, had consolidated sales of 53.5 billion euros in 2008 (25.5 billion euros in the first half of 2009) and, at 30 June 2009, a customer base of 186 million customers in 32 countries. Orange, the Group's single brand for Internet, television and mobile services in the majority of countries where the company operates, now covers 124.5 million customers. At the first half of 2009, the Group had 125.5 million mobile customers and 13.4 million broadband Internet (ADSL) customers worldwide. Orange is the number three mobile operator and the number two provider of broadband Internet services in Europe and, under the brand Orange Business Services, is one of the world leaders in providing telecommunication services to multinational companies. The Group's strategy, which is characterized by a strong focus on innovation, convergence and effective cost management, aims to establish Orange as an integrated operator and benchmark for new telecommunications services in Europe. Today the Group remains focused on its core activities as a network operator, while working to develop its position in new growth activities. To meet customer expectations, the Group strives to provide products and services that are simple and user-friendly, while maintaining a sustainable and responsible business model that can be adapted to the requirements of a fast-paced and changing eco-system. France Telecom (NYSE:FTE) is listed on Euronext Paris (compartment A) and on the New York Stock Exchange. For more information: www.orange.com, www.francetelecom.com, www.orange-business.com.

About T-Mobile UK
T-Mobile is one of the world's largest mobile operators with more than 150 million customers worldwide and is the service provider of choice for 16.6 million customers in the UK. T-Mobile offers a range of innovative products and services, such as Solo, the SIM-only plan, Combi, a traditional minutes and text package, and Flext, the UK's first flexible tariff. T-Mobile continues to innovate with new devices such as the UK's first Android™-based smart phone, the T-Mobile G1, and its successor the T-Mobile G2, both with access to more than 1,000 applications. T-Mobile has pioneered the mobile internet, and operates an award-winning 3G network with speeds of up to 4.5Mbps. As a pioneer of deep network sharing in the UK, T-Mobile is continuously improving population coverage for 3G services and will operate the best 3G network by the end of 2010. For more information about T-Mobile UK, please visit www.t-mobile.co.uk.

About Orange UK
In the UK, Orange provides high quality GSM coverage to 99% of the UK population. At the end of July 2009, Orange had almost 17 million customers in the UK – 15.9 million active mobile customers and close to one million fixed broadband customers. Orange and any other Orange product or service names included in this material are trade marks of Orange Personal Communications Services Limited. For more information: www.orange.com, www.francetelecom.com, www.orange-business.com For further information, call the Orange press office on 0870 373 1500 or email: Orangepr@golinharris.com or visit www.orange.co.uk/newsroom.

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This press release contains forward-looking statements that reflect the current views of Deutsche Telekom management with respect to future events. Forward-looking statements are based on current plans, estimates, and projections. They should therefore be considered with caution. Such statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, most of which are difficult to predict and are generally beyond Deutsche Telekom's control. If these risks and uncertainties materialize, or if the assumptions underlying any of these statements prove incorrect, results may be materially different from those expressed or implied by such statements. Deutsche Telekom can offer no assurance that its expectations or targets will be met. Without prejudice to existing obligations under capital market law, Deutsche Telekom does not assume any responsibility for updating forward-looking statements by taking new information or future events or other matters into account.

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This press release contains forward-looking statements that reflect the current views of the management of France Telecom S.A. ('France Telecom') with respect to future events. They include, among others, statements as to market potential, synergies and financial guidance. They are generally identified by the words 'expect,' 'anticipate,' 'believe,' 'intend,' 'estimate,' 'aim,' 'goal,' 'plan,' 'will,' 'seek,' 'outlook' or similar expressions and include generally any information that relates to expectations or targets for revenue, EBITDA, earnings, capital expenditures, operating expenses, synergies, profitability or other performance measures, as well as personnel related measures and reductions. Forward-looking statements are based on current plans, estimates and projections. You should consider them with caution. Such statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, most of which are difficult to predict and are generally beyond France Telecom's control, including those described in the sections 'Forward-Looking Statements' and 'Risk Factors' of France Telecom's Annual Report on Form 20-F filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and France Telecom's Document de Référence filed with the French Autorité des marchés financiers. Among the relevant risk factors are the progress of any regulatory approvals, restructuring of operations, and impact of other significant strategic or business initiatives, including network and IT rationalization, distribution streamlining and other cost-saving initiatives. In addition, regulatory rulings, stronger than expected competition, technological change, litigation and supervisory developments, among other factors, may have a material adverse effect on costs and revenue development. Further, changes in general economic and business conditions, including the significant economic decline currently underway, in the markets in which France Telecom and the proposed new joint venture operate and ongoing instability and volatility in worldwide financial markets; changes in exchange and interest rates, may also have an impact on our business development and availability of capital under favorable conditions. If these or other risks and uncertainties materialize, or if the assumptions underlying any of these statements prove incorrect, France Telecom's actual results, and the actual results of the proposed new joint venture, may be materially different from those expressed or implied by such statements. France Telecom cannot offer any assurance that its expectations or targets will be achieved. France Telecom does not assume any obligation to update forward-looking statements to take new information or future events into account or otherwise. France Telecom does not reconcile EBITDA guidance to a GAAP measure because it would require unreasonable effort to do so. As a general matter, France Telecom does not predict the net effect of future special factors because of their uncertainty. Special factors and interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (including impairment losses) can be significant to France Telecom's results. In addition to figures prepared in accordance with IFRS, France Telecom presents non-GAAP financial performance measures, including, among others, EBITDA, EBITDA margin, adjusted EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA margin, adjusted EBIT, adjusted net income, free cash flow, gross debt and net debt. These non-GAAP measures should be considered in addition to, but not as a substitute for, the information prepared in accordance with IFRS. Non-GAAP financial performance measures are not subject to IFRS or any other generally accepted accounting principles. Other companies may define these terms in different ways. For further information relevant to the interpretation of these terms, please refer to France Telecom's Investor Relations webpage at www.francetelecom.com.

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Under this agreement ONDD will provide insurance for third party financing for the purchase of Alcatel-Lucent telecommunications equipment by service providers worldwide.

'This agreement demonstrates ONDD's commitment to supporting Alcatel-Lucent export transactions worldwide, in recognition and support of the critical role Alcatel-Lucent's Belgian operations play as a centre of expertise in R&D, export and project management for the company. This is an important milestone in our ongoing long lasting relationship with Alcatel-Lucent,' said Stefaan Van Boxstael, Deputy Head of Underwriting from ONDD. 'This agreement with ONDD allows Alcatel-Lucent to provide financing to its customers for contracts with sourcing on a global level involving technologies in the fields of optics, access, mobile, IP and applications and creates new ways for Alcatel-Lucent to meet customer requirements for worldwide sourcing.'

As a first result of this agreement, Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking has arranged an ONDD-backed loan facility in favour of Turk Telekom, to finance various contracts between Turk Telekom and Alcatel-Lucent for a global amount of EUR 46 million. In line with Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) regulations, part of the local services was also integrated in this financing.

The loan facility could be extended to support additional new contracts between Turk Telekom and Alcatel-Lucent. The buyer's credit will be applied to the full foreign portion, on a global level, of contracts concluded between Alcatel-Lucent Teletas (Turkey) and Turk Telekom for technologies sourced from different Alcatel-Lucent entities around the world.

'Our overall agreement with ONDD, as demonstrated by this first transaction with Turk Telekom, provides a powerful tool for Alcatel-Lucent to help its customers meet their financing needs,' said Paul Tufano Alcatel-Lucent's CFO. 'A number of other new opportunities have already been identified, and our agreement with ONDD will provide Alcatel-Lucent with further flexibility regarding its project financing needs around the world.'

About ONDD
ONDD, the Office National Du Ducroire | Nationale Delcrederedienst, is Belgium's public export credit insurer, specializing in commercial and political risk insurance, guaranteed by the state.
As an integral part of the economic and export-oriented policy on Belgium's international trade, ONDD primarily provides cover against credit and political risks to support Belgian exports and outward investments where private sector risk cover is unavailable, due to the risk profile of these activities. Such covers have clear economic importance in Belgium, since exports of goods and services contribute more than 80% of GDP.
ONDD is allocated a 'AA+' rating by Standard & Poor's. For more information, please visit external linkwww.ondd.be.

About Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking
At the core of Societe Generale's universal banking business model, the Corporate & Investment Bank is a well-diversified and leading player with 12 000 professionals present in over 40 countries across Europe, the Americas and Asia-Pacific.

Standing by its clients across sectors, the Corporate & Investment Bank tailors solutions for them by capitalising on its worldwide expertise in investment banking,globalfinance, and global markets.

For Corporates, Financial Institutions and public sector: providing a global advisory approach (M&A, debt, equity transaction, capital structure, and asset & liability management), as well as quality capital raising solutions across the debt and equity spectrum, optimised financing and expert risk management responses notably in the realm of foreign exchange and rates derivatives.

For investors: offering reliable and sound investment opportunities and risk management solutions through its integrated global markets platform delivering seamless access to markets (equity, rates, credit, currencies, commodities and derivatives), as well as advice and solid financial engineering, quality of execution and forward-looking research across asset classes

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SG CIB Global Finance division consolidates all capital raising across the debt to equity spectrum, structured financing and hedging solutions for issuers.
Where 110 experts in Export Finance deliver financing solutions, risk covers and advisory services related to import or export contracts of which underlying assets are capital goods, equipment and/or services.
Responsible for all ECA-backed business solutions for more than 40 years, our experts leverage their relationship with Export Credit Agencies and the emerging market to address client needs across the globe, capitalizing on the extensive Société Générale network.
A leading position reconfirmed by its clients with the prestigious Award for Excellence from Trade Finance Magazine. In Export Finance, Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking was named 'Best Export Finance Arranger' for the eighth consecutive year, demonstrating how, with its strong global network and innovative approach, the bank continues to address the evolving needs of its clients and provides support to win business overseas.

About Alcatel-Lucent
Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) is the trusted partner of service providers, enterprises and governments worldwide, providing solutions to deliver voice, data and video communication services to end-users. A leader in fixed, mobile and converged broadband networking, IP technologies, applications and services, Alcatel-Lucent leverages the unrivalled technical and scientific expertise of Bell Labs, one of the largest innovation powerhouses in the communications industry. With operations in more than 130 countries and the most experienced global services organization in the industry, Alcatel-Lucent is a local partner with a global reach. Alcatel-Lucent achieved revenues of Euro 16.98 billion in 2008 and is incorporated in France, with executive offices located in Paris. For more information, visit Alcatel-Lucent on the Internet: http://www.alcatel-lucent.com

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SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (November 5, 2009) -- Greystripe, the leading mobile brand-advertising network, today announced a strategic relationship with Tapjoy, bringing full-screen ads to Tapjoy's mobile mediation platform and developer community. The affiliation with Greystripe offers iPhone developers simple SDK integration to incorporate Greystripe's full-screen, rich media ads along with the banner ads already available through Tapjoy's SDK.

The new partnership maximizes revenue potential for mobile content developers who can now take advantage of both on-screen real estate during game play, as well as natural, interstitial pauses and breaks. This partnerships allows Tapjoy to extend its role as the leading mediation platform for mobile developers, helping them deliver ads from multiple networks while choosing those that provide the highest CPM. Aligning Tapjoy with Greystripe's rich-media formats presents an opportunity for developers to take advantage of multiple, proven ad solutions within a single Tapjoy SDK.

'I'm very excited to learn Greystripe and Tapjoy are working together to provide developers a single platform to help us drive the highest CPMs,' explains Andy Reidel, creator of 'Beat the Tiki', a popular trivia app for iPhone. ''Beat the Tiki' uses both Greystripe and Tapjoy, and the combination of banner and full-screen interstitial ads has worked very well. It's a natural extension to see both companies together in a single developer's kit.'

Rich media offers higher revenues for iPhone App Developers

Greystripe's in-app advertisements feature full screen rich-media Flash formats, transcoded for iPhone delivery and proven to deliver a higher CPM than the basic small, static banner ads.

'Tapjoy is excited to improve and broaden our service by offering a full-screen ad option to our users,' said Lee Linden, co-founder of Tapjoy. 'It's even better that Greystripe provides a unique, rich-media format. We believe this will increase publisher revenue far beyond what is currently available.'

'When done transparently, mediation companies offer developers a great way to maximize their revenue and control over the advertisements within their applications,' adds Greystripe CEO Michael Chang. 'We're excited to be working with Tapjoy to widen our base of developers., and bring Tapjoy's unique services to our developers.'

About Greystripe

Greystripe is the rich media mobile advertising network. Greystripe's product suite enables brand advertisers to communicate their brand message with a unique mobile audience, developers to gain advertising revenue by serving ads through their games, and consumers to play high-quality games for free.

Greystripe's in-game advertising system is protected by a broad array of patents pending and currently serves ads into more than 1,000 game titles from over 500 devlopers supporting over 1,400 handset models. Greystripe reaches millions of mobile game players by powering over 180 Catalog distribution partners, through its online portal GameJump.com, on the mobile Web at www.gamejump.com, and through the iPhone App Store.

Greystripe was named the E-Tech CTIA award winner for the Mobile Marketing/Mobile Advertising category in 2009, AlwaysOn OnMedia 100 winner in 2009, AlwaysOn Global 100 winner in 2008, Red Herring Global 100 winner in 2007 and the Under the Radar Best in Show: Mobility winner in 2006.

About Tapjoy

Tapjoy is the leading platform for developers to make money from their mobile applications.

The Tapjoy SDK includes a rich Ad Optimization solution that allows developers to pick the highest eCPM ads across ten+ mobile ad networks. This solution allows developers to increase the revenue from their apps significantly.

The Tapjoy SDK also includes its unique Virtual Currency/Virtual Goods Monetization system, which helps developers increase revenue. to help improve their mobile apps and make them more profitable. Features of this platform also include rewarded installs, helping developers get more installations from their apps.

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The CIO CEE conference (www.europecongress.com/index.php/events/ciocee) will focus on competitive intelligence, key input for successful budgetary and strategic business planning.

The CIO CEE offers the perfect platform and the opportunity to join and network with the CIO's from various verticals in the industry, experts in thought-provoking sessions to help develop and implement the company strategy for the upturn. The participants will learn how to optimize their process costs, how to add value into their business by identifying potential in the latest industry innovations, better customer understanding and to learn how to exploit latest competitive IT intelligence. The CIO CEE Conference will allow the participants to have the opportunity to meet with the CIO's from various industries who are actively seeking new solutions and expertise, benchmark best practices, walk away with qualified leads, and to discuss the hottest trends in the market.

The conference will have a cutting edge conference agenda with key speakers addressing topics such as: IT outsourcing in the financial crisis period or how it could improve core in the Business activities, process re-engineering, and how to save on procurement, the future in software, Agile vs Waterfall, IT security, cloud computing, green IT, and other.

The CIO CEE Conference is an international event which will gather the key speakers and experts from the Central and Eastern European countries.

CEEOA brings together the Associated bodies of the CEE region in a powerful, active and developing association to exchange thought leadership and network to position the Central and Eastern European region as competitive alternative to other global IT and business process outsourcing destinations. As one of the main objectives of CEEOA is to increase regional and international competitiveness through improving business viabilities and services delivery capabilities of the CEE Service providers and sharing of best practices, expert information and research findings, benefits and innovative solutions of outsourcing industry.

CEEOA supported the event with the aim to popularize IT Outsourcing services of the CEE providers. According to the research 'Central and Eastern Europe IT Outsourcing Review 2008' the value of the IT outsourcing market in the CEE region reached 3 bln US dollars. The research provides an evidence of the rapid development of IT outsourcing services market in the Central and Eastern Europe. As there has been a shift from simple cost savings as a motivation to valuing the experience of outsourcing services providers and efficiency of cooperation between the client and provider teams. The advantages of the CEE countries such as cultural compatibility with Europe and North America, technical and business experience are of great value for the clients.

CEEOA consider the support of the CIO CEE Conference to be a great opportunity to present the potential of the CEE providers and to show how IT outsourcing services could be used in successful budgetary and strategic business planning, and how outsourcing could help to optimize the business process costs.

Europe Congress

Europe Congress (www.europecongress.com) provides high level strategic business and deal flow information platforms around Europe, mainly in the Central and Eastern European countries with tailored practical conferences, events, seminars, trainings and sports hospitality. Europe Congress produces events in major cities: Prague, Paris, Amsterdam, Budapest, Brussels, Berlin and Vienna, just to name few. The main objective of Europe Congress is to offer the C-Level Executives the opportunities to network and most importantly to walk away with qualified leads and high level of satisfaction.

About CEEOA

Central and Eastern European Outsourcing Association (CEEOA) (www.ceeoa.org) was founded in 2008. The members of the association are the leading national IT and Outsourcing associations from the Central and Eastern Europe, among them Baltic Outsourcing Association (BOA), Ukrainian HI-TECH Initiative, Hungarian Service Industry and Outsourcing Association (HOA), Employers' Association of the Software and Services Industry (ANIS) from Romania, Bulgarian Web Association (BWA) and ASPIRE - Association of IT & Business Process Services Companies (Poland). One of the main objectives of CEEOA is to promote the Central and Eastern European Region as competitive alternative to other Global offshoring destinations, and to increase services delivery quality and volume to the recognized standards.

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In a move that extends Europe's biggest independent digital marketing agency's reach into the Benelux region, bigmouthmedia and Netsociety have reached an agreement that will see the companies collaborate on a range of projects for international clients. Already working together on several key campaigns, the arrangement effectively extends both firms' geographical footprint at a stroke.

"We're delighted to have formed such a close working relationship with Netsociety. The two companies are very closely matched in terms of ethos, approach to market and customer base, so after working together on a number of extremely successful ventures in the past, forming a partnership made sound business sense," said Lyndsay Menzies, Group Chief Operations Officer at bigmouthmedia.

"While Netsociety's regional expertise will afford bigmouthmedia's clients improved access to the Dutch and Belgian markets, our extensive global operations will allow our partners to provide their existing clients with an expanded international offering."

Netsociety's view of the cooperation is similar. Managing Director Maurice Pothof said: "We have found an appropriate partner in bigmouthmedia. During the initial discussions we quickly discovered how similar bigmouthmedia's DNA was to Netsociety's, and realized that a strategic partnership would create opportunities for our current and potential Dutch clients with international ambitions.'

"We deliberately do not aspire to the European expansion of our company but unlike our competitors, continuously deepen our focus on our home market in the Benelux region. Our cooperation with BMM makes Netsociety one of the few search engine marketing agencies in the Netherlands that has full European coverage," he continued.

The newly formed partnership, which will see Netsociety offer clients in Holland and Belgium the extended range of digital marketing services available from bigmouthmedia's operations in 10 countries, is already off to a flying start. Having previously co-operated on several client campaigns, the duo were recently selected to run the paid search strategy of leading Dutch travel agency transavia.com across seven markets, while other campaigns where both companies work together include Hotels.com, TW steel and Spil Games.

Ends

About Netsociety:
Founded in 2007, Netsociety is one of the leading Search Engine Marketing Agencies in the Benelux. Netsociety combines result driven online marketing expertise with the in-house development of new technologies. Netsociety has offices in Amsterdam and Brussels, the company's clients include Thomas Cook, ING, Dixons, Bookit / Weekendjeweg.nl, Brunel, Santander and UPC.

About bigmouthmedia:
Founded in 1997, bigmouthmedia is Europe's largest and most experienced digital marketing agency and was rated the UK's #1 Search agency for Search Engine Optimisation and PPC in the 2009 NMA Marketing Services Guide.

Bigmouthmedia's 200+ online marketing experts across 12 international offices maximise online brand exposure for our clients by means of integrated digital strategies incorporating SEO, PPC, Social Media Marketing, Affiliate Marketing, Display Advertising, Online PR and Copywriting.

Bigmouthmedia's multilingual digital solutions deliver outstanding ROI for over 300 world leading brands including British Airways, Tesco, ebay, Sky, Cisco, BT, Comic Relief, Barclaycard and Europcar.

Bigmouthmedia also provides up to date daily digital marketing news.

For further media information please contact
Iain Bruce
Media Strategist
bigmouthmedia
51 Timberbush
Edinburgh
EH6 6QH
(44) 131 555 4848
twitter.com/bigmouth_aff

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LONDON, UK .– NDS, the leading provider of technology solutions for digital pay-TV, today announced the launch of its Recommendations Engine Partner Programme. Jinni, an innovative semantic discovery service for premium video content, is the first company to join the programme.

Through the Recommendation Engine Partner Programme, NDS will offer the services of Jinni as a partner to its customers in recommendation engine based initiatives.

Incorporating a recommendations service enables operators to offer additional content to consumers based on their current viewing profile, providing them with a powerful way to encourage subscribers to try new programmes and premium services.

Jinni's semantic approach, based on proprietary algorithms, reflects the way people think and talk about entertainment, and enables intelligent content discovery by shifting the spotlight from rigid categories and keyword search to results that match the consumer's taste.

'NDS' global experience and established relationships in the digital pay-TV industry are invaluable to expanding the reach of our service,' said Mike Pohl, Chief Executive Officer, Jinni. 'By joining this partner programme, Jinni is positioned as a crucial component of an end-to-end portfolio that will enable customers to more accurately relate to their subscribers and supply them with highly relevant viewing suggestions. Our technology dives deeper into consumers' viewing habits to make it easier for them to find a programme or movie that could potentially be their next favourite.'

Using algorithms to analyse choices and content already viewed and enjoyed by a subscriber, Jinni's semantic discovery engine provides personalised recommendations by creating a complex profile of the viewer.

'Finding new and interesting content is proving a chore for consumers – having to wade through hundreds of channels, they do not want to spend time looking for programmes to watch. The ability to provide contextually customized recommendations to a viewer increases content consumption and boosts satisfaction levels which in turn increases revenues and reduces churn for the operator' said Nigel Smith, Chief Marketing Officer, NDS. 'As a result of our Recommendations Engine Partner Programme and it's first partnership with Jinni, NDS can offer a selection of recommendation engines to our customers, allowing them to implement an exceptional end-to-end solution that will address these consumer desires and enable our customers to see increased revenue generation.'

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The above telecommunications industry leaders have jointly developed a technical profile for LTE voice and SMS services, also known as the One Voice initiative. The profile defines an optimal set of existing 3GPP-specified functionalities that all industry stakeholders, including network vendors, service providers and handset manufacturers, can use to offer compatible LTE voice solutions.

Open collaborative discussions have concluded that the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) based solution, as defined by 3GPP, is the most applicable approach to meeting the consumers' expectations for service quality, reliability and availability when moving from existing circuit switched telephony services to IP-based LTE services. This approach will also open the path to service convergence, as IMS is able to simultaneously serve broadband wireline and LTE wireless networks.

By following the jointly defined technical profile, the industry can help guarantee international roaming and interoperability for LTE voice and SMS services, ensuring subscribers continuity of these vital services – all while offering service providers a smooth and well-defined path to LTE.

The objective of the initiative is to ensure the widest possible ecosystem for LTE and to avoid fragmentation of technical solutions. LTE will, with this initiative, not only serve as a broadband access for increasing data traffic, but also for continuing voice and SMS services. Network operators will be able to more quickly develop their customized LTE ecosystem in collaboration with both network equipment vendors and device manufacturers. In addition, the reassurance of global interoperability in an LTE voice landscape and the ability to offer both broadband access and telephony services over LTE will create strong foundations for future business.

The profile for the initial solution has been finalized and is available through the companies associated with this press release. The objective is to hand over the profile and continuing work to existing industry forums.

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BASKING RIDGE, NJ — Many of Verizon Wireless' more than 2,000 Communications Stores will open early Friday (Nov. 6) to give customers the earliest opportunity to purchase the DROID by Motorola on its first day of sale. Some stores will open at 7 a.m. and others at 8 a.m. Customers should check local stores for their opening hours. (Mall stores will not open early.)

Customers visiting Verizon Wireless Communications Stores on or after Friday, Nov. 6, will not only be able to purchase the world's first smartphone with Android™ 2.0, they can also learn about its variety of advanced features and functions. Verizon Wireless will host demonstrations at select locations to help customers get the most from their new DROID by Motorola devices.

Also on Friday, Verizon Wireless will create a first-of-its-kind interactive experience in New York City called, 'DROID Does Times Square.' This experience will let callers control two of Times Square's largest digital billboards – the NASDAQ and Reuters signs – using only voice commands.

The digital billboards will instruct passersby to call a toll-free number (1-888-376-4336) to search locations in the Times Square area. Participants can search for practically anything (e.g. their favorite cuisines, plays, movies, stores), and the search results will be displayed on the digital billboards using Google Maps. This activity takes place from Nov. 6 through Nov. 20, daily from 12:30 p.m. to 2:10 p.m. and from 6:30 p.m. to 8:10 p.m. and from 6:00 a.m. on Nov. 27 through 2:00 a.m. on Nov. 28. Beginning Nov. 6, Internet fans worldwide can also view the experience in real-time by visiting www.droiddoes.com/timessquare.

DROID by Motorola will be available in the United States exclusively at Verizon Wireless Communications Stores and online on Friday, Nov. 6, for $199.99 with a new two-year customer agreement after a $100 mail-in rebate. Customers will receive the rebate in the form of a debit card; upon receipt, customers may use the card as cash anywhere debit cards are accepted.

The DROID by Motorola features high-speed Web browsing, voice-activated search, a customizable large screen, access to thousands of Android applications and hundreds of widgets, and the largest 3G mobile network in the country. To learn more, visit http://news.vzw.com/news/2009/10/pr2009-10-27.html. Experience the all-new DROID by Motorola at www.droiddoes.com.

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BSCS iX enables real-time rating and billing of telecommunications services together with customer care. The main focus is on the customer, starting from sales, personalized service packages through to real-time billing. The modular design of the solution allows for low-risk, step-by-step migration and simple integration into existing systems.

"IBM's expanded relationship with LHS will now give communication service providers the ability to deploy BSCS iX Release 3 solutions on an IBM platform that will improve service, reduce cost, optimize energy consumption and manage risk for their billing and customer care deployments," said John Polly, vice president of sales for IBM's Global Telecommunications Industry.

"Through the cooperation with IBM, we will be able to serve our customers even better by offering them unique value through rapid and cost-effective installations and implementations that accelerate ROI, reduce time-to-market, and offer complete life-cycle support to lower the total cost of ownership," said Jens Trotscher, CTO of LHS.

IBM is also a new member of LHS's dedicated partner program. The partnership program constitutes an agreement of close cooperation between LHS and IBM. The program aims to combine LHS' product expertise and award-winning technology with IBM's customer intimacy, project experience and best practices of service delivery. In addition, the co-marketing and co-selling activities offer expanded business opportunities for both sides.

About IBM

For more information on IBM please go to: www.ibm.com/telecom.

About LHS

LHS, part of the Ericsson Group (NASDAQ: ERIC), is a leading independent software vendor (ISV) of billing and customer care systems in the telecom industry. The company's award-winning solutions are used by the world's leading network and virtual operators, to generate and manage consistent revenue streams. LHS Business Support Systems offer full convergence on various levels, supporting the complete range of business models both across the mix of fixed and mobile services, as well as prepaid and postpaid services.

LHS builds innovative systems that enable our customers to introduce new services fast, helping drive revenues up, while keeping operational costs to a minimum.

LHS' headquarters are located in Frankfurt, Germany, with main offices in Brazil, France, Malaysia and the UAE. LHS Aktiengesellschaft as the Group's Holding company is a public company listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (LHS400).

For more information, please visit www.lhsgroup.com.

About Ericsson

Ericsson is the world's leading provider of technology and services to telecom operators. Ericsson is the leader in 2G, 3G and 4G mobile technologies, and provides support for networks with over 1 billion subscribers and has a leading position in managed services. The company's portfolio comprises of mobile and fixed network infrastructure, telecom services, software, broadband and multimedia solutions for operators, enterprises and the media industry. The Sony Ericsson and ST-Ericsson joint ventures provide consumers with feature-rich personal mobile devices.

Ericsson is advancing its vision of "to be the prime driver in an all-communicating world" through innovation, technology, and sustainable business solutions. Working in 175 countries, more than 75,000 employees generated revenue of SEK 209 billion (USD 32.2 billion) in 2008. Founded in 1876 with the headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden, Ericsson is listed on OMX NASDAQ, Stockholm and NASDAQ New York.

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Cannes, France - As organisations begin to prepare for a return to business growth, many are finding themselves at a major crossroads at which they must decide whether to remain on their longstanding current path of performing IT activities or to go in a different direction, according to Gartner, Inc. Organisations that opt for the latter will have an opportunity to challenge all activities as they currently exist, choosing where to stay the course and where a different course of action makes sense.

'We are now within one of the rarest and most fleeting periods in business: nearing the bottom of a recession and before a return to growth,' said Ken McGee, vice president and Gartner fellow. 'We urge organisations to exploit this unusual opportunity to question the efficacy of their IT business practices and determine whether those practices warrant change. But they need to act now, by the time business growth returns, they will be far too busy, and it will simply be too late to change.'

Mr McGee presents his outlook for business and IT leaders to prepare for a return to business growth during Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2009, being held here through 5 November. He reveals 11 IT-based activities that are prime candidates for organisations to review for potential overhaul and advises organisations to consider the extreme approach to each activity, then consider the less extreme options, before finally deciding how to proceed. These recommendations are based on the results of various research findings from hundreds of client interactions.

Decision 1 - How to Modernise IT Infrastructure vis-à-vis Cloud Computing?
Extreme recommendation: Fund infrastructure modernisation only after you decide upon a cloud computing strategy.
Gartner said that by explaining today's request for infrastructure and operations (I&O) modernisation funding within the context of cloud computing in the future, executives are less likely to feel that they are paying twice for modernisation when cloud computing is officially adopted.

Decision 2 – How to Significantly Improve Budgeting?
Extreme recommendation: Replace existing budget methodologies with zero-based budgeting principles where every project request cites: (1) project name; (2) business unit executive; (3) one-time project implementation cost (operating and capital expenditures); (4) recurring annual cost and (5) business executive's signature.

Decision 3 – How to Become the CEO of IT?
Extreme recommendation: Hire an IT CFO, formally teach contract negotiation techniques and establish signing and agency authority list for vendors.
For decades, organisations have empowered IT associates to negotiate multimillion-dollar hardware, software and service contracts, even though those associates have never been formally trained in doing so. Gartner has long recommended the hiring of an IT CFO, as well as better training for IT associates involved in contract negotiation and tighter controls to limit unauthorised purchases.

Decision 4 – What IT Information Should You Disclose to Executives?
Extreme recommendation: Implement the procurement department and accounting department challenges immediately.
Those presenting contracts to executives for signing need to ensure that they are being transparent and clear. For example, they should have no qualms about including the following disclaimer on contracts presented for executive sign-off: "Before you sign, please note: The prices, terms and conditions in this contract are not the result of a competitive bidding process." The executive being asked to sign the contract will then be in a position to decide whether to put his or her name on it, equipped with the knowledge that it has not undergone the rigour of a competitive bidding process, or a comparison of prices prevailing in the marketplace.

Decision 5 – When Should IT Practitioners Leave the IT Organisation?
Extreme recommendation: Announce when key IT staffers with CIO aspirations will leave IT.
Gartner research has found that new CIOs for global 2000 companies must have served as managers or executives of departments or divisions other than IT. IT managers must decide when to encourage aspiring CIOs to leave IT to foster the pursuit of career goals in the wider organisation.

Decision 6 – Should You Support Cost Savings or Business Growth?
Extreme recommendation: Resolve how to simultaneously support cost-cutting efforts and business expansion.
As globalisation levels continue to grow, solving how to simultaneously support positive and negative growth will become one of the most complex never ending IT organisational challenges of the next decade.

Decision 7 – Current CIOs - Which IT Organisation Structures Work Best?
Extreme recommendation: End Tier one, two and three (T-1-2-3) support modules.
Unless abandoned, T-1-2-3 structures will continue to undermine the success of delivering new projects by interrupting developers to solve outages occurring in deployed systems. Instead the automotive industry model should be considered whereby once a product is built by the 'factory', a separate group of people becomes responsible for maintenance.

Decision 8 – Should New CIOs Abandon Legacy IT Organisational Structures?
Extreme recommendation: Divest IT operations from IT.
CEOs want to employ new CIOs with extensive business and management backgrounds to help IT keep pace with the business. Before IT project workloads increase as business growth returns, new CIOs should decide whether traditional IT organisational structures can best exploit their business acumen.

Decision 9 – What Type of IT Innovation Will You Lead?
Extreme recommendation: Finalise what type of innovators your IT groups will be.
Leaders need to decide whether they want their IT people to be empowered to be able to unilaterally identify and recommend a business issue, and deliver an innovative IT solution to solve it.

Decision 10 – Where Should You Prioritise Your IT Group's New Innovation Goals?
Extreme recommendation: Inform executives where you will direct your IT group's innovation efforts.
CIOs wishing to target a vastly new and favourable impact on business during this period of preparing to return to growth should direct most new funding to the business cycle phases where IT has been and continues to be most silent.

Decision 11 – Can You Solve One Enterprise Information/IT 'Grand Challenge' by 2013?
Extreme recommendation: Resolve just one enterprise information/IT 'grand challenge'.
Gartner recommends that organisations direct R&D funding toward specifically improving or solving just one of the enterprise's 'grand challenges' in order to make maximum impact.

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About Gartner:
Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT) is the world's leading information technology research and advisory company. Gartner delivers the technology-related insight necessary for its clients to make the right decisions, every day. From CIOs and senior IT leaders in corporations and government agencies, to business leaders in high-tech and telecom enterprises and professional services firms, to technology investors, Gartner is the indispensable partner to 60,000 clients in 10,000 distinct organizations. Through the resources of Gartner Research, Gartner Consulting and Gartner Events, Gartner works with every client to research, analyze and interpret the business of IT within the context of their individual role. Founded in 1979, Gartner is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, U.S.A., and has 4,000 associates, including 1,200 research analysts and consultants in 80 countries. For more information, visit www.gartner.com.

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'Mobile Internet applications, GPS, and multimedia functionality were the most important drivers,' says Alex Liu, In-Stat analyst. 'In the smartphone OS marketplace, Symbian retained its leading position and saw a small share increase in 2008 due to steady growth of Nokia smartphone sales and a drop in Linux smartphone sales.'

Recent research by In-Stat found the following:

* China's smartphone shipments are projected to more than triple by 2013.
* The next wave of smartphone market growth will be driven by lower barriers to entry in both OS and chipset platform solutions.
* A free and complete smartphone software platform from OHA and the Symbian Foundation will fuel smartphone market growth in the coming years.

Recent In-Stat research, Lower Barriers to Entry Will Drive China's Smartphone Market (#IN0904538CWW), covers the Chinese market for smartphones. It includes:

* Examination of the smartphone value chain.
* Analysis of chipset market trends.
* Smartphone OS market trend analysis including Symbian, Google Android, OMS, and Windows Mobile.
* Examination of market drivers and barriers in China.
* Forecasts of China's smartphone market unit sales through 2013.

For a free sample of the report and more information, please contact a sales representative: http://www.instat.com/sales.asp

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The price is $2,995 (US).

This research is part of In-Stat's China Wireless service, which provides insight into the technologies, consumer requirements, devices, applications, and business models of the world's fastest growing economy and mobile market.

Related In-Stat research:

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Future Cellphones: Leveraging Building Blocks for Better Experience

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The Recession Reshapes the Worldwide Cellular Handset 5-Year Forecast

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Report Info

* Title: Lower Barriers to Entry Will Drive China's Smartphone Market
* Service: China Wireless
* Product Number: IN0904538CWW
* Publication Date: October 2009
* Number of Pages: 27
* Price: $2,995 U.S. Dollars
* Abstract, Table of Contents, Figures & Tables
* Members Only Access: Full text HTML , PDF

About In-Stat

In-Stat's market intelligence combines technical, market and end-user research and database models to analyze the Mobile Internet and Digital Entertainment ecosystems. Our insights are derived from a deep understanding of technology impacts, nearly 30 years of history in research and consulting, and direct relationships with leading players in each of our core markets. In-Stat provides its research through reports, annual subscriptions, consulting and advisory services to inform critical decisions. Technology and semiconductor vendors, infrastructure and device manufacturers, service providers and media companies worldwide rely on partnerships with In-Stat's tenured, experienced staff and on our in-depth market intelligence to support critical business, product and technology decisions.

In-Stat is a strategic segment of the $9 billion Reed Elsevier global information network, with access to an expansive worldwide electronic network, extensive technology databases and well-informed personnel. As a member of Reed Business Information, In-Stat is a division of the largest business-to-business publisher in the U.S.

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IRVINE, Calif. - Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM), a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, today announced that Newton Peripherals, maker of the innovative MoGo Mouse, has selected Broadcom's Bluetooth® technology for the new MoGo Talk headset. MoGo Talk is a unique, next generation wireless headset that can be stored and recharged within the plastic bodies of notebook PCs and cellular handsets. Current MoGo Talk designs support the Apple iPhone, two popular BlackBerry devices (the Curve and the Javelin) and a host of notebook PCs with voice over IP (VoIP) capabilities. Based on Broadcom® Bluetooth technology, Newton will continue to add popular phones to its list of devices supported by MoGo Talk.

Highlights/Key Facts:

-- The Newton MoGo Talk product exemplifies the trend toward more
integrated and imaginative form factors for Bluetooth headset products,
delivering great performance in a user-friendly package.
-- Broadcom headset technology enables superior audio quality, low power
and small size to provide device makers with the flexibility to develop
popular products that are designed around how end users will experience
them.
-- Broadcom is leveraging its position as a leading Bluetooth supplier for
cellular handset, PC/peripheral and human interface device (HID)
products to further drive innovation in the headset segment.
-- Included in its offering is Broadcom's popular SmartAudio® sound and
voice enhancement technology. SmartAudio provides the following
benefits:
-- Significantly improved audio quality in noisy environments by
reducing background noise and unwanted acoustic echo while also
improving the wireless range of headset connections.
-- Near-end speech enhancements that automatically adjust volume level
for the headset user when moving in and out of noisy environments
-- Dynamic wind noise reduction algorithms that drastically improve the
audio quality in a windy environments.
-- Broadcom's unique packet loss concealment (PLC) that compensates for
lost data while delivering clearer digital voice communications.
-- The SmartAudio platform works in conjunction with Broadcom's
Bluetooth software, which is widely used in mobile phones and PCs,
ensuring that interoperability with Bluetooth audio sources has been
widely tested and field proven.
-- Broadcom has shipped over one billion Bluetooth products and offers the
broadest family of Bluetooth silicon and software solutions for mobile
phones, PCs, wireless headphones and headsets, peripherals, gaming and
other applications.
-- Broadcom Bluetooth headset solutions are gaining recognition as the
technology of choice for innovative, high volume headset products, and
the world's largest manufacturers of consumer electronics, mobile phones
and personal computer products rely on Broadcom Bluetooth technology to
provide their customers with a unique, intuitive and rich user
experience, increasingly free of wires and cables.

-- Click here to watch a video demo of Broadcom's latest headset
innovations.
http://www.youtube.com/BroadcomCorporation#p/u/0/e4ziB3X6wUI

Supporting Quotes:

Stuart Nixdorff, CEO of Newton Peripherals

"The MoGo family of mobile interface devices requires advanced Bluetooth solutions that can accommodate ultra-thin form factors, while still delivering a highly satisfying user experience. Broadcom is a strong partner for Newton Peripherals to integrate with as we continue to see broad adoption of MoGo Talk in the Bluetooth headset market," said Stuart Nixdorff, CEO of Newton Peripherals. "The integration of Broadcom's SmartAudio technology means that MoGo Talk headsets can effectively identify and filter out bothersome noise, improving audio quality and ensuring crisp and clear voice calls."

Craig Ochikubo, Vice President & General Manager, Wireless Personal Area Networking, Broadcom's Wireless Connectivity Group

"Our continued pursuit of technology superiority in the Bluetooth headset segment has resulted in innovative designs with some of the industry's leading makers of headset products. We are pleased that our Bluetooth silicon and software provides the design flexibility and audio quality required to enable innovative designs like Newton's MoGo Talk."

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About Broadcom

Broadcom Corporation is a major technology innovator and global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications. Broadcom products enable the delivery of voice, video, data and multimedia to and throughout the home, the office and the mobile environment. We provide the industry's broadest portfolio of state-of-the-art system-on-a-chip and software solutions to manufacturers of computing and networking equipment, digital entertainment and broadband access products, and mobile devices. These solutions support our core mission: Connecting everything(®).

Broadcom is one of the world's largest fabless semiconductor companies, with 2008 revenue of $4.66 billion, and holds over 3,650 U.S. and over 1,450 foreign patents, more than 7,750 additional pending patent applications, and one of the broadest intellectual property portfolios addressing both wired and wireless transmission of voice, video, data and multimedia.

A FORTUNE 500® company, Broadcom is headquartered in Irvine, Calif., and has offices and research facilities in North America, Asia and Europe. Broadcom may be contacted at +1.949.926.5000 or at www.broadcom.com.

Cautions regarding Forward Looking Statements:

All statements included or incorporated by reference in this release, other than statements or characterizations of historical fact, are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based on our current expectations, estimates and projections about our industry and business, management's beliefs, and certain assumptions made by us, all of which are subject to change. Forward-looking statements can often be identified by words such as "anticipates," "expects," "intends," "plans," "predicts," "believes," "seeks," "estimates," "may," "will," "should," "would," "could," "potential," "continue," "ongoing," similar expressions, and variations or negatives of these words. Examples of such forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, the functionality and demand for Bluetooth headsets, our position in that market, and references to Newton's use of Broadcom technology in future products. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future results and are subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions that could cause our actual results to differ materially and adversely from those expressed in any forward-looking statement.

Important factors that may cause such a difference for Broadcom in connection with the Bluetooth headset silicon and software, but are not limited to:

-- the rate at which our present and future customers and end-users adopt
Broadcom's Bluetooth technologies for wireless headset applications;
-- trends in the wireless networking markets in various geographic regions,
including seasonality in sales of consumer products into which our
products are incorporated, and possible disruption in commercial
activities related to terrorist activity or armed conflict in the United
States and other locations;
-- the gain or loss of a key customer, design win or order;
-- the volume of our product sales and pricing concessions on volume sales;
-- our ability to timely and accurately predict market requirements and
evolving industry standards and to identify opportunities in new
markets; and

-- competitive pressures and other factors such as the qualification,
availability and pricing of competing products and technologies and the
resulting effects on sales and pricing of our products.

Additional factors that may cause Broadcom's actual results to differ materially from those expressed in forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to the list that can be found at http://www.broadcom.com/press/additional_risk_factors/Q42009.php.

Our Annual Report on Form 10-K, subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, recent Current Reports on Form 8-K, and other Securities and Exchange Commission filings discuss the foregoing risks as well as other important risk factors that could contribute to such differences or otherwise affect our business, results of operations and financial condition. The forward-looking statements in this release speak only as of this date. We undertake no obligation to revise or update publicly any forward-looking statement, except as required by law.

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The independent survey of 300 board-level executives, commissioned by BT Global Services, shows that nearly three-quarters (74 per cent) of senior executives at UK companies and government organisations believe that better use of technologies has had a role in fighting the recession over the past year.

Over two-thirds (68 per cent) of businesses now rank future investment in faster computer networks, flexible working and managed ICT services as priorities to become more efficient and cut costs in the next 18 months, alongside other key growth objectives, such as sales promotions, new product launches and better staff training.

More than a third of companies (37 per cent) plan to spend money on faster and more reliable network technology, in particular in the financial services industry where 52 per cent of institutions believe faster, low latency networks for trading and information sharing will give them competitive edge. A third of all companies surveyed also plan to spend money on flexible working technology as a route to sustainable financial success and helping them manage staffing and property needs.

Mark Quartermaine, President of BT Global Services UK Markets, said: 'What is encouraging is that this survey shows that many businesses in the UK feel they're on the start of the road to recovery. The way they do business has already changed significantly, but the signs are there that continued investment in new technology and processes will help them do more with less and remain competitive on the global stage.'

Despite the investment plans, some 83 per cent of the managers polled are preparing to do more with less to make sure their business stays competitive on the global stage, believing that some of the technology investments they have made during the downturn are putting them in a strong position for recovery.

'The road to recovery is not the same for all industries,' said Graham Opie at research firm, Vanson Bourne. 'There is a wide range of opinions and approaches across different industries. Whilst over three-quarters (78 per cent) of public sector leaders feel the recovery will be slow, less than a third (31 per cent) of their private sector counterparts agreed.'

Retail managers showed the most optimism, with 70 per cent of respondents confident about their prospects next year.

In terms of spending, more than half of managers in the financial services (60 per cent) and transport sectors (52 per cent) said their companies needed to invest in technology in order to grow. Marketing spend is a high priority across the board, particularly in the financial services sector, where 76 per cent of executives said it would help their businesses to grow.

Meanwhile in the logistics industry, respondents felt they had weathered the storm well, with 39 per cent suggesting that their business didn't suffer at all. Logistics firms also had the widest spread in terms of spending plans, with more than half prioritising investment in training (51 per cent), promotions (51 per cent), product and service development (53 per cent) and marketing (57 per cent).

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Jakarta, Indonesia - Smart telecom, a national cellular operator, and Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM; TSX: RIM), a global leader in wireless innovation, today launched the EVDO-enabled BlackBerry® Curve™ 8330 smartphone in Indonesia.

Smart will offer the BlackBerry Curve 8330 smartphone with two service plan options - Smart BlackBerry Hemat monthly for IDR 140,000 and Smart BlackBerry Hemat daily for IDR 5000.

By subscribing to the BlackBerry® service offered by Smart, customers get unlimited Internet and email access on Smart's high-speed network at an affordable price. The service also allows subscribers to enjoy unlimited video streaming (RTSP), access to popular instant messaging services (BlackBerry® Messenger, Yahoo!® Messenger, Windows Live™ Messenger and Google Talk) and social networking sites (Facebook® and MySpace).

Activating BlackBerry service from the BlackBerry Curve 8330 is very easy - users simply send an SMS to 2233 with the text 'ON Hemat30' for monthly service or 'ON Hemat1' for daily service. To deactivate, users can send an SMS with the text 'OFF' to 2233. There is no condition on subscriber type, all prepaid and postpaid customers can be benefit from the BlackBerry service.

'The BlackBerry Curve 8330 smartphone is for both personal and professional use with premium phone features, email, instant messaging, social networking, multimedia and web access together with support for a wide range of mobile applications. With the launch of the BlackBerry Curve 8330 by Smart, we are very pleased that CDMA customers in our country, for the first time, will be able to enjoy the features and power of the BlackBerry platform on our network, which provides high-speed data services at an attractive price,' said Tom Alamas Dinharsa, Head of Device Technology & Special Projects, PT Smart Telecom.

Features of the BlackBerry Curve 8330 smartphone include:

* Easy-to-use full QWERTY keyboard and trackball navigation
* 2.0 Mega Pixel camera with flash, 5x zoom and video recording
* High resolution (320 x 240) color display (supports more than 65,000 colors)
* Easy access to social networking applications such as Facebook and MySpace
* Easy access to popular Instant Messaging (chatting) services such as BlackBerry Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, and Google Talk
* Bluetooth® 2.0
* GPS navigation and BlackBerry® Maps application
* Removable, rechargeable batterythat provides approximately 4 hours of talk time and 11 days of standby
* Industry leading service with BlackBerry "push" email
* Media Player, , BlackBerry Browser, and other features
* microSD memory card slot for media storage, supports up to 8GB cards

"The BlackBerry Curve smartphone has become extremely popular with both business users and consumers around the world, and we are delighted to leverage our experience and global leadership in CDMA smartphone technology to extend the reach of the BlackBerry service platform to CDMA customers in Indonesia. We are very pleased to introduce the BlackBerry Curve 8330 smartphone to Smart's customers in Indonesia," said Gregory Wade, Managing Director for Southeast Asia at Research In Motion.

Smart is collaborating with Citibank to offer Citibank customers a chance to own the BlackBerry Curve 8330 smartphone. All Citibank credit card owners can bring home this smartphone through a 12-month installment of IDR 499,000 per month plus discount up to 25% by redeeming their Citibank point rewards. This package includes 12 months of BlackBerry service with unlimited Internet access. Citibank customers can call the BlackBerry Citi EazyPay Officer at (021) 52909700 for Jakarta, (022) 4153131 for Bandung or (031) 5356699 for Surabaya to inquire.

The BlackBerry Curve 8330 smartphone and two Smart BlackBerry Hemat service plans are available at Smart's galleries and Smart's delivery order via phone at 088 11 22 33 44. Customers can also visit the Smart roadshow, featuring the BlackBerry Curve 8830 smartphone at Indocomtech, Jakarta Convention Centre Hall B, Senayan from 4-8 November 2009.

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Fort Wayne, Indiana.- AT&T* announced today a two-year wireless voice and data service contract with the U.S. arm of Trelleborg Sealing Solutions, one of the world's leading developers, manufacturers and suppliers of precision seals and bearings.

With its decentralized structure, Trelleborg Sealing Solutions Americas sought a single provider that could supply the handsets and wireless network to support its team throughout the region. Under the agreement, AT&T will supply mobile devices from a comprehensive portfolio of smart phones and handsets, connecting all Trelleborg employees in the Americas on the same network while facilitating the consolidation and improvement of management and billing efficiencies.

'Trelleborg Sealing Solutions Americas prides itself on its collaboration and innovation,' says Robert White, VP Finance, Trelleborg Sealing Solutions Americas. 'We foresee that this streamlined contract with AT&T will help us accomplish this with even greater velocity.'

Running on the world's de facto wireless standard, GSM, AT&T offers Trelleborg Sealing Solutions Americas quality wireless coverage worldwide, providing the most wireless phones that work in the most countries. Employees will also have access to more than 125,000 worldwide Wi-Fi hot spots in 79 countries, giving faster speeds for quick data exchange and collaboration.

Small businesses looking to find information about AT&T products and services can visit www.att.com/smallbusiness. For free business resources such as webinars, white papers, training, case studies and best practices, they can visit www.att.com/smallbusinessinsite.

*AT&T products and services are provided or offered by subsidiaries and affiliates of AT&T Inc. under the AT&T brand and not by AT&T Inc.

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Innovation ruled the show and the top prize in AT&T's annual Fast-Pitch contest during Fall CTIA. Earning the grand prize in the business category was HipVoice with its revolutionary Push-To-Talk application that works across carriers and devices. The technology enables workers to communicate simply and seamlessly between the office and the field.

IQ Engines grabbed the top consumer prize with its application that recognizes and labels photos, then monetizes these images by matching them to relevant retailers and advertisers. Their image labeling engine™ is fast, accurate and scalable. Using a mobile phone's camera, IQ Engine enables the user to point at any product to retrieve detailed information, reviews, prices, and purchase links. This application makes searching for product information effortless and fast.

HipVoice and IQ Engines were among the more than 200 mobile consumer and business software developers that participated in the Fast-Pitch Platinum Awards contest held at CTIA IT 2009 in San Diego. Each company earned a $10,000 prize in its category.

HipVoice, which recently had its application certified, will be featured online and in print versions of the AT&T Certified Solutions Catalog. On the consumer side, IQ Engines will have an opportunity to market its application through a range of AT&T's consumer distribution opportunities.

The Fall Fast-Pitch Platinum Awards offers many companies, both big and small, the opportunity to compete. 'To have an opportunity like this with a national carrier is very exciting,' said Darius Gandhi, VP of Business Development, HipVoice.

'Our technology comes from two years of research funded by the National Science Foundation. It is exciting to see our research in mobile visual search move to the market,' said Gerry Pesavento, CEO of IQ Engines.

The two runners-up in the business category were P.O.D. Verify's PODPAD and iVisit's SeeStar. The PODPAD solution uses wireless document imaging for field services and transportation by using a wireless phone and Verify's patented scanner. This enables the user to scan documents in a vehicle or office and transmit them to his or her company instantly. iVisit's SeeStar technology offers persons who are visually impaired a virtual "pair of eyes.' Live images are transmitted to a remote assistant who can view the images, describe the person's surroundings, indicate the location of landmarks and pathways to destinations, or recognize objects and print media.

The two runners-up in the consumer contest were Micello and Evernote. Micello is an application that provides a unique indoor location-based service for mobile devices. Millions of people today use mobile maps to navigate to their destination. Micello goes one step further by extending a map inside locations, such as convention centers, shopping malls, college campuses, airports, and theme parks. With Evernote if you can see it or think of it, Evernote can help you remember it. Type a text note, clip a web page, and snap a photo or grab a screenshot, Evernote will keep it all safe. Everything captured is indexed and easily searchable.

Each of the runners-up received a $5,000 cash award.

Contestants were invited to present their applications to a panel of judges that determined which application would make the cut for potential placement on AT&T's wireless network. The judges based their decisions on several factors, including innovation and originality of the application, market appeal, interface design, and number of platforms and handsets supported.

'The Fast-Pitch program is not only a great platform for these up-and-coming developers, it helps ensure that AT&T can continue to give its customers convenient access to some of the most innovative wireless applications out there,' said Carolyn Billings, executive director, developer marketing, AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets. 'We're grateful to all of the participants in this year's contest, and extend our congratulations to the winners.'

AT&T is the first major wireless carrier to create a developer relations program and now has more than 20,000 developers registered in its program. AT&T offers its customers all of the world's major mobile operating systems, working with developers to create applications and content for BlackBerry®, iPhone, Java, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Palm OS and Symbian.

All of AT&T's mobile applications operate on its GSM network, the world standard in mobile communications used by more than 88 percent of wireless users worldwide. GSM is inherently open, making it easy for developers and carriers to bring innovative applications to consumers.

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Dallas, Texas.- AT&T* today announced the winners of its second annual Big Mobile On Campus Challenge, a national higher education contest for mobile application development. The contest illustrates the ability to take extremely innovative ideas and develop them into mobile applications.

Prizes will be awarded to the grand prize winners at the Higher Ed Board of Advisors meeting today, and the winners will demonstrate their winning application during the EduCause Annual Conference on November 3-5, 2009, in Denver, Colorado.

The grand-prize winner is a team of full-time students from Harvard University. Alex Bick, Joy Ding, Drew Robb, Cameron Spickert and Winston Yan won for their 'Rover' platform. They will split a $10,000 scholarship, and each team member will receive a mobile device of choice and a trip to the EduCause Annual Conference in Denver. 'Rover' connects students with each other, their school and community. The core of Rover is a guidebook, enhanced by location-awareness and social networking features to inform students of what is happening in their campus through local deals, events, news and transportation. 'Rover' is unique in having a live feed of deals that connects local businesses with students, creating interactions that allow for greater integration of students into the local community and vice versa.

The runners-up are Michael Hanley, Jennifer Palilonis, Suzy Smith and Vinayak Tanksale, staff members from Ball State University, and Erica Simone, a full-time student from Northeastern University.

The Ball State team is recognized for their interactive news and advertising application that allows students to create and deliver news stories, videos, interactive graphics and advertisements on a breaking news or weekly basis. The team members will share $5,000 in cash and receive a mobile device of choice each.

Ms. Simone of Northeastern University is recognized for a comprehensive and personalized mobile application, 'UpperClass'. This application connects students, faculty, alumni and parents to key systems while on the go as well as popular social networking systems, such as Facebook and Twitter, to provide an immersive experience. She will receive a $5,000 scholarship and a mobile device of choice.

'The quality of submissions to our Big Mobile on Campus Challenge this year was outstanding, and it is clear that real-time access to information is more important than ever before for higher education students and staff,' said Chris Hill, vice president, mobility product management, AT&T Business Solutions. 'The goal of our Big Mobile on Campus Challenge is to encourage students and staff to participate in the mobile evolution, and be innovators, not just consumers, of mobile applications. The winners this year clearly demonstrated undeniable ingenuity with their next-generation mobile applications. Their ideas will enhance education, community vitality and information access. AT&T congratulates each of the winners of the contest.'

The Big Mobile On Campus Challenge for full-time college students and staff was established in 2008 to recognize innovative and creative mobile applications that enhance academic performance, build campus community and help to improve campus operations.

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