The TeleManagement Forum Board Welcomes Time Warner; Oracle, Microsoft, and China Mobile to Board of Directors

Business Wire, April 3, 2007

Company Strengthens Board with Strategic Additions in New Key Areas

MORRISTOWN, N.J. -- The TeleManagement Forum (TM Forum) announced today that it has reinforced its Board of Directors with key new appointments that map to the organization's strategic direction.

"The recent appointments to the TM Forum Board represent the growing strategic importance of effective operations in delivering the business goals of today's Service Providers," said Keith Willetts, Chairman of the TeleManagement Forum. "Our Board consists of a very high caliber set of individuals that will help us achieve our strategic goals of providing leadership on operational issues across the converging web, telecom and media industries."

The board consists of:

Cable Industry. Jonathan Anderson, Vice President of Operations at Time Warner Cable, becomes the first representative of the cable industry on TM Forum's Board. The cable industry represents a growing membership area for the Forum.

Service Providers. Ms. Wei Lihong, Deputy General Manager at China Mobile, is the first representative from China to join the TM Forum Board. In addition, Giovanni Chiarelli, OSS and Security Director, is the new Board representative from Telecom Italia who joins other service provider executives: Phil Dance, CIO at BT; Mark Francis, Vice President at AT&T Michael Lawrey, Head of Networks at Telstra; Karl Wilhelm Siebert, Director of Technical General Management for Vodafone; Tim Short, Director of Technical Operations at France Telecom/Orange and Mikael Ahman, Corporate Director, TeliaSonera.

Major IT players. To strengthen the Board's view of major IT directions, Bhaskar Gorti, General Manager, Communications Business Unit at Oracle, and Michel Burger, CTO Communications Sector, at Microsoft Corporation, join Ananda Subbiah, Vice President Telecom & Media at Hewlett Packard; Joe Ziskin, Vice President of Global Telecoms Industry Solutions and Strategy at IBM and Philippe Lalande, Head of OSS Through Java, representing Sun Microsystems.

Software and Technology Companies. Major software and technology companies are represented by Subash Menon, Chief Executive of Subex Azure; Jon Collins, Vice President EMEA, Telcordia; Alpna Doshi, Vice President of Telecoms Business at systems integrator Satyam; Helmut Schink, Vice President of Systems Engineering, Siemens; Jaakko Aho, Director of OSS Strategy and Business Development, Nokia; Johanne Mayer, Director of Solution Marketing, Alcatel-Lucent and Neil Prasad, Senior Manager, from Cisco Systems.

About the TeleManagement Forum

The TeleManagement Forum (TM Forum) provides leadership, strategic guidance and practical solutions to improve the management and operation of information and communications services. The Forum currently facilitates over 80 technical programs and provides extensive training, conferencing and information services to its members. Through the "Lean Operator" initiative for 21st century automated business processes, the Forum helps its members manage change and develop, procure and deploy operational and business support systems that will work seamlessly across various parts of the service delivery chain. It provides process and software frameworks as part of its New Generation Operations Systems and Software (NGOSS) program and specific 'plug and play' standards through its Prosspero initiative. These guidelines, along with extensive industry benchmarking, provide service providers with the direction and specific roadmap to achieve business efficiency and operational flexibility - the hallmarks of the Lean Operator.

The TM Forum has 570 members in 63 countries, including service providers, equipment suppliers, software solution suppliers and systems integrators. For further information regarding the TM Forum, related programs and TeleManagement World, please visit www.tmforum.org.