Mobile Streams Regulatory News (MOS)

26 Jul 2006 07:01

Mobile Streams plc26 July 2006 PRESS RELEASE 26 July 2006 Movistar Chile Selects Mobile Streams as Exclusive Content Provider Mobile Streams, the global mobile content company, is pleased to announce itsagreement with Movistar Chile, Chile's leading GSM/CDMA mobiletelecommunications operator with over four million customers. Mobile Streams hasbeen selected as the exclusive provider for their polyphonic ringtones offeringand will provide content via WAP and SMS channels with their catalogue of over1000 songs. Mobile Streams also supplies Truetones, Wallpapers and otherapplications to Movistar Chile through the same channels. Begona Varas V., Value Added Service Manager at Movistar Chile said: "We haveselected Mobile Streams as the exclusive provider as it will allow us to enhanceour current content services and keep Movistar as the market leader for richcontent services. We are committed to delivering a superb service to ourcustomers, and are excited to benefit from Mobile Streams' global knowledge andexperience." Simon Buckingham, CEO of Mobile Streams said: "The relationship with Movistar inChile is an important step in establishing a leadership position within theLatin American mobile content market and we are very pleased about ourpartnership. Each additional deployment of a Mobile Streams service around theworld further underscores the value and timeliness of our high performance." Ends Enquiries Mobile StreamsSimon Buckingham, Chief Executive OfficerJitesh Sodha, Chief Finance Officer +44 (0) 7000 366366 Brunswick Group LLPLaura Cummings +44 (0) 20 7404 5959 About Mobile Streams Mobile Streams is a leading provider of music, comedy, sport and entertainmentcontent to handsets and other wireless devices, whose mobile expertise anddistribution platform, "Vuesia," is used globally by some of the world's largestmedia groups and mobile phone networks including Vodafone, and 3 in the UK,America Movil, Movistar & TIM in Latin America, Fido & Rogers in Canada andDobson in the US. "Vuesia" is Mobile Streams' full service enterprise mobile media managementsolution. "Vuesia" facilitates content ingestion, management, delivery, billingand reporting. The Company creates, licenses and delivers quality content to Mobile NetworkOperators (MNOs) and consumers in the form of ringtones, graphics, video clipsand other products. It has developed relationships with both content owners andMNOs which enable it to act as an intermediary, providing an end-to-end serviceencompassing a broad range of elements from content licensing to contentproduction, account management and channel management. Mobile Streams has subsidiaries in Germany, the US, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico,Chile, Colombia, Sydney and Hong Kong and has approximately 100 employees. For more information please go to www.mobilestreams.com About Movistar Movistar is the largest mobile network operator in Chile with 47% of the marketfollowed by Entel PCS with 42%. With national coverage on GSM and CDMA networks and full GPRS coverage and localEDGE network in highly populated cities, Movistar is leading the Mobilecommunication industry in Chile. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange