OZ Announces Partnership with T-Mobile International to Launch Mobile Instant Messaging Solution in UK and Germany

Business Wire, Sept 29, 2008

T-Mobile customers can now stay connected to friends and family in AOL[R], ICQ[R], Windows Live Messenger[R] and Yahoo![R] portal communities

MONTREAL -- OZ, the leading consumer mobile messaging solution provider, today announced the availability of its Mobile IM Solution on the T-Mobile UK and T-Mobile Germany networks, providing millions of subscribers with easy access to popular Instant Messaging services on their mobile devices. A key milestone for the European market, the simultaneous, multi-country, multi-portal deployment provides T-Mobile customers with the ability to stay in touch with friends from four leading portal communities including AOL[R], ICQ[R], Windows Live Messenger[R] and Yahoo![R].

The OZ Mobile IM solution provides consumers with a simple sign up process and an enjoyable, intuitive user experience that is specifically designed to meet the needs of both the novice and power user. The flexible solution allows subscribers to configure a personalized messaging experience on their mobile phone, enabling them to stay connected to friends in multiple portal communities anytime and anywhere.

"OZ has worked very closely with us to successfully deploy our new UK and German Mobile IM service meeting challenging time to market requirements," said Matthias Schroter, Senior Vice President Mobile Messaging and Data Services, T-Mobile International AG. "They worked diligently to ensure that the service is fully integrated with our existing billing and user authentication infrastructure and provides our subscribers with a streamlined and compelling user experience."

OZ continues to successfully deploy IM and email solutions supporting billions of transaction per month and millions of users worldwide. This is all possible because of OZ's combined expertise in porting to a wide array of mobile devices and adapting its mobile messaging gateway to the customers' billing and user authentication systems. This latest service launch also further strengthens OZ's leadership position in the European market where OZ already has deployments with 3 Denmark, 3 Sweden, TDC, Telenor Norway and Telenor Sweden.

"OZ mobile instant messaging offers users an intuitive user experience and access to all their favorite IM communities while providing our operators partners such as T-Mobile, with a high growth revenue-generating service," said Jim Knapik, president and CEO at OZ. "With customized branding, open standards support and high system reliability, the OZ Mobile IM solution delivers industry leading features that drive subscriber loyalty."

About OZ

OZ empowers consumers to stay connected with the most popular messaging and Internet services, including IM, email and online communities, through their mobile phones. Working with the leading mobile operators, handset manufacturers, portals and online communities, OZ delivers innovative and standards-based solutions that provide rich and fully integrated messaging experiences on millions of mobile devices.

Leading companies that are Powered by Zinfandel[TM] include: 3 Scandinavia, Alcatel Lucent, Alltel, AOL[R], Bell Mobility, Boost Mobile, AT&T, Dobson, HTC, ICQ, LG, Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia, Orange France Telecom, Palm, Pantech & Curitel, Rogers Wireless, Samsung, SonyEricsson, Sprint Nextel, TCL & Alcatel Mobile Phones, TDC, Telefonica Moviles EspaSa, Telenor Group, TeliaSonera, Telus Mobility, T-Mobile USA[R],T-Mobile International, UTStarcomm, Verizon Wireless, Virgin Mobile USA and Yahoo![R].

OZ is a privately held company headquartered in Montreal, Canada, with regional offices in the United States, Europe and India. For more information, visit the OZ website at www.oz.com.

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