AIRWIDE SOLUTIONS ENABLES MOBILE OPERATORS TO EVOLVE TO NEXT GENERATION MESSAGING SERVICES

London, United Kingdom - March 15, 2005 - airwide solutions announces that all of its messaging products are now enabled to operate in both IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) and pre-IMS environments. With this announcement, airwide solutions continues its tradition of innovation by enabling the evolution from existing messaging infrastructure to 3G and IMS configured networks.

All of airwide solutions products offer IP-based connection interfaces via SIGTRAN (Signaling Transport). airwide solutions now builds the bridge between 2G/2.5G messaging environments and IMS through the use of SIP (Session Initiation Protocol).

airwide solutions was the first company to deploy SIGTRAN enabled Short Message Service Center (SMSC), working with Telstra in 2003. Since then, airwide solutions has been helping its customers attain entirely new levels of throughput and cost efficiency from their messaging infrastructure using IP- based connectivity.
By combining existing voice, video, data and messaging services over a common IP infrastructure, IMS will bring the full potential of internet technology to mobile users. This capability opens up new and innovative peer-to-peer and community services such as video telephony, chat and multimedia conferencing. It also improves service mobility by offering consistent service over various network access.

With IMS service integration, airwide solutions' products will be able to provide a new range of interactive mobile messaging applications. Subscribers will be able to easily send mobile messages in the most appropriate and cost effective means. They will also be able to mix message types in a single session. IMS will improve mobile operator's revenues by facilitating the introduction of new services that end users are willing to use and pay for.

"More and more of our customers are looking at IMS as a means to differentiate their service offering and to increase their revenues," said Vince Kadar, CTO, airwide solutions. "We are currently working with mobile operators to ease their migration to an IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) architecture and to ensure that they can take advantage of the benefits of IMS/3G deployments without cannibalizing their current 2G/2.5G revenues.

- ENDS -

For further information, please contact

Americas
Nicole Gruslin
Marketing Director
airwide solutions
email: nicole.gruslin@airwidesolutions.com
Mobile: 1.514.581.1373

Europe:
Tanya Pedashenko
email: tpedashenko@golinharris.com
telephone: +44 207 067 0630