BT Forms Alliance with Entriq; BT Media & Broadcast and Entriq Sign-Up BT Vision As First Customer

Business Wire, August 23, 2006

SAN DIEGO -- BT Media & Broadcast today announced an alliance with Entriq, a leading provider of pay media solutions that help service providers manage, protect and sell multimedia content to broadband, mobile and IPTV devices.

The two organisations will work together to provide an end-to-end digital content delivery system including a digital store, that allows customers to sell high value content via the web and mobile platforms to consumers.

The service provided by BT Media & Broadcast and Entriq has already successfully won its first customer. Following a competitive tender, the service has been selected by BT Vision to enable consumers to download video entertainment to their PCs and portable media players from the BT Vision website.

The BT Vision download-to-own service, launched in July 2006, is available at www.downloadstore.bt.com initially with up to 150 titles available from NBC Universal including the latest Hollywood blockbusters and classics from the archive. The service will build to a huge selection of titles from all genres, wherever possible offering customers the opportunity to download and own content and view it on a PC, portable media players and the TV.

Barry Bonnett, CEO BT Media & Broadcast, said: "Alliances with organisations like Entriq will form a key part of our strategy moving forward. They allow us to focus on maximising the consumer experience on behalf of our customers, safe in the knowledge that the valuable content is securely managed and delivered. We believe that this alliance will be very profitable for both parties and has already won us a significant customer in BT Vision. In what was a highly competitive tender, BT Vision recognised the quality of service and cost effectiveness of our overall network based capability."

Entriq's specialist expertise which encompasses encrypted content and subscriber management systems will be integrated by BT Media & Broadcast into customer solutions.

Dan Marks, chief executive of BT Vision, said: "Providing a comprehensive download-to-own digital entertainment service is challenging but the BT M&BS/Entriq end-to-end solution allowed us to focus our energies on running the service rather than solving complex technology issues."

Scott Crowder, chief operating officer, Entriq, said: "Broadband distribution has matured to such a level in Europe that media owners across Europe are seeing new revenue opportunities through online and mobile distribution channels for their premium content. We are looking forward to working with BT Media & Broadcast and believe that together we have a compelling proposition that will meet and exceed customer expectations and deliver a secure and compelling user experience."

BT Media & Broadcast and Entriq are already working on other joint sales opportunities.

About Entriq, Inc

With over 20 years of pay media experience, Entriq Inc. powers new media business models by providing solutions for protecting, selling and delivering content to broadband, mobile and IPTV connected devices worldwide. Entriq gives content and service providers the tools needed to manage and protect valuable media assets they wish to track and/or sell. Entriq clients include some of the largest companies in the pay media industry, including MTV Networks, World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), NBC Universal, Viacom, Major League Baseball, UEFA, Channel 4 (U.K.) and Intel. Entriq is based in San Diego, California and has offices in the UK, France, Germany and the Netherlands as well as China. Entriq is a division of MIH Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Naspers (NASDAQ: NPSN). For more information visit www.entriq.com.

About BT

BT is one of the world's leading providers of communications solutions and services operating in 170 countries. Its principal activities include networked IT services, local, national and international telecommunications services, and higher-value broadband and internet products and services. BT consists principally of four lines of business: BT Global Services, Openreach, BT Retail and BT Wholesale. In the year ended 31 March 2006, BT Group's revenue was GBP 19,514 million with profit before taxation of GBP 2,040 million.

British Telecommunications plc (BT) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of BT Group and encompasses virtually all businesses and assets of the BT Group. BT Group plc is listed on stock exchanges in London and New York. For more information, visit www.bt.com/aboutbt

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