PassCall Advanced Technologies and CMG Wireless Data Solutions Join Forces to Deliver Mobile Internet Solutions

PassCall Becomes a Certified CMG Partner 
after Successfully Completing a Series of Interoperability Tests

Cannes, February 21, 2001 – PassCall Advanced Technologies, a leading provider of mobile portal platforms, and CMG Wireless Data Solutions, a world leader in Wireless Messaging, Mobile Internet and Customer Care & Billing solutions for the telecom industry, announced today a partnership to deliver added value mobile Internet solutions. 

Through this partnership, PassCall extends CMG's Wireless Service Broker^TM offering with a quick to market, cost effective, and fully functional mobile platform. PassCall’s open platform, GateWave, has been tested and certified for optimal interoperability with CMG’s Wireless Service Brokerä. PassCall gains access to CMG’s highly qualified, extensive mobile Internet platforms and broad customer base worldwide.

PassCall’s open platform, GateWave, turns mobile portals into revenue-generating platforms with rich and dynamic content by enabling service providers to adapt Internet content, advertise and let end-users personalize their mobile portals. GateWave intelligently transforms – in real time – Internet content, marked up in HTML, into content suitable for display on a full range of mobile devices (WML for WAP Phones, cHTML for PDA’s and I-mode devices) and for voice browsing (VoiceXML). GateWave is compatible with GPRS and 3G technologies, thereby offering service providers a strategic platform that will support the next generation of mobile Internet products, services and technologies.

CMG’s Wireless Service Broker^TM empowers mobile users to access remote content and services from a wide range of devices, including WAP devices , non-WAP phones. The Wireless Service BrokerTM product suite offers personalized home pages, device and user profiling, service navigation, device synchronization, location sensitivity, end-to-end security and store-and-forward messaging. The Wireless Service BrokerTM provides operators, service providers and enterprises with the ability to deploy mobile services over all 2G, 2.5G and 3G mobile networks.

“Through PassCall’s contribution to the Partner Program, our customers get access to a range of capabilities that are complementary to the Wireless Service Broker product suite and that may prove essential for completion of the service delivery chain. Of particular interest in this respect are the powerful content conversion and the voice portal capabilities that PassCall brings to our Partner Program.” says Reinier van Joolen, Business Development Manager of CMG’s Partner Program.

“Now we can leverage CMG’s extensive qualified mobile Internet solutions, which complement PassCall’s platform, in order to offer our customers a complete solution.” says Frans van Belle, CEO PassCall Advanced Technologies. “We are confident that this partnership will truly benefit our customers, as together we can offer them the ultimate solutions for mobile Internet content and services.”

About PassCall Advanced Technologies 
PassCall Advanced Technologies is a leading provider of mobile portal platforms. PassCall’s state-of-the-art infrastructure enables mobile service providers to offer Mobile Internet services to their subscribers. Founded in 1998, PassCall is a privately owned company with offices in Haifa, Amsterdam and London. PassCall’s investors include Intel, Holland Venture and Infinity. To learn more about PassCall Advanced Technologies.

About CMG Wireless Data Solutions
CMG Wireless Data Solutions (formerly CMG Telecommunications) is the leading global supplier of messaging ,Internet and Customer Care & Billing solutions for the wireless telecom industry. CMG develops high-end solutions in close co-operation with network operators. To date, more than 150 of these quality solutions have been delivered to over 75 operators world-wide. They are widely recognised to be the best around, combining minimum operator intervention with maximum performance and availability. 
The solutions portfolio includes the Wireless Service Broker^TM, Mobile E-mail, Short Message Service Centre, Cell Broadcast System and EPPIX (Customer Care & Billing System). More information about CMG Wireless Data Solutions can be found on the Internet at www.cmg-wireless.com.

CMG telecommunications is a division of CMG plc (www.cmg.com), a leading European IT services group, providing business information solutions around the world through consultancy, systems development, software applications and managed services. CMG was established in 1964 and currently employs around 11,000 employees. The Group is listed on the London and Amsterdam stock exchanges. 

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