Europe : Radioplan GmbH announced the agreement of a distribution partnership with TeleResources Engineering of Australia. The agreement covers customer representation and front line technical support for Radioplan's popular WiNeS2G and 3G RF network optimization products in the Australia and New Zealand regions.

TeleResources is one of Australia's radio communications consulting engineering firms with over twenty years experience in the provision of software and services to Government and numerous private sector clients in Australasia.

"We're very pleased to be working with a well respected and technically very competent partner for Australia and New Zealand," said Johannes Huebner, Radioplan's Executive Manager. "This region is an important market that demands a strong local presence, and with TeleResources we have the ideal partner to provide the very best of care for major mobile operator customers. We look forward to a very positive and fruitful relationship for many years to come."

"I am delighted to be working with Radioplan in the automatic optimization market. The WiNeS suite complements our own in-house expertise and we believe it will make an important contribution to the success of 3G in our country" said Maurie Dobbin, CEO of TeleResources. "Radioplan's products have a very good reputation and a strong customer track record in Europe and Japan, and we look forward to extending that success into Australia and New Zealand."

Radioplan's simulation and optimization products are currently in service with more than 30 customers in 15 countries worldwide, with the WiNeS optimization platform being trusted to deliver automatic network optimization solutions to support numerous live 3G networks.

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