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e-SIM's MMI Suite for Cutting-Edge 3G FronTier Platform

21st October , 2004

US : PrairieComm announced that they have signed an agreement to bundle e-SIM's MMI Solution with PrairieComm's FronTier 3G platforms. As part of the agreement PrairieComm purchased e-SIM's MMI Solution and will include it as a bundled part of its platforms.

PrairieComm plans to offer its clients e-SIM's modular and customizable MMI Solution as an integral part of its FronTier application framework platform. The MMI offering is pre-integrated onto FronTier along with other software components such as multimedia/video services, browsing, messaging, predictive text, and voice recognition.

"e-SIM's powerful tool and reference MMI provides the features and flexibility required by the 3G market," said Jeff Bennett, Director of 3G Marketing, PrairieComm, Inc. "The addition of e-SIM's solution to our application framework offers PrairieComm customers the opportunity to rapidly deliver customized, feature-rich handsets based on the cutting-edge FronTier platform."

"We are proud to have been chosen as the MMI solution providers for PrairieComm's 3G platforms," said Reuven Kleinman, VP Business Development and Marketing, e-SIM. "PrairieComm's leading 3G platform together with the e-SIM advanced MMI solution enables handset manufacturers to create high-quality, attractive, and customized 3G handsets and bring them to market quickly and efficiently. By selecting our MMI solution PrairieComm further endorses e-SIM's established leadership position as the leading MMI solution provider for mobile handsets. We anticipate making a significant contribution to PrairieComm's success in the 3G handset market, bringing value and competitive advantage to their customers, and mutually benefiting from the fruits of this partnership. This agreement with an important 3G handset enabler is another important step in e-SIM's strategy to lead the handset MMI market, increase its revenue, and ensure an ongoing stream of royalty revenue for years to come."

e-SIM's complete MMI solution includes a customizable MMI application together with a robust software framework with support for windowing, multi-lingual text, and concurrent application management, as well as e-SIM's RapidPLUSTM development and customization tools.

FronTier offers ODMs and OEMs a complete, integrated form factor hardware design and an application framework that meets the demands of 3G operators worldwide. The multimedia-rich 3G reference phone platform also boasts a bill of materials similar to existing 2.5G handsets enabling mass-market 3G data phones. e-SIM's MMI solution will first be available on the FronTier110 platform, a UMTS/GSM/GPRS form factor platform for low-end multimedia feature phones.

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