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KPN Mobile International and Artilium announced their partnership to create new opportunities for user generated applications on KPN’s mobile networks.

This transformation was enabled the software of Artilium’s Real-Time Architecture (ARTA) for Connected Mobile Services. This software, which was designed to facilitate rapid creation of new mobile applications, was packaged as services. Artilium almost entirely designed the software platform on the Microsoft product portfolio.

The partnership includes a licensing agreement allowing KPN deployment of ARTA as a platform for next-generation converged services across its growing base of over 27 million mobile subscribers in the Benelux, Germany, and Spain.

KPN Mobile International Chief Executive Officer, Stan Miller said, “This agreement is a major boost for KPN’s strategy on MVNO’s ( Mobile Virtual Network Operators) in Europe. Artilium software allows KPN to surge to the forefront of mobile/Web innovation. We are able to open our network to developer communities worldwide to deliver an infinite range of differentiated services and an exciting new level of personalization and interactivity for subscribers. In doing so, we begin to transform the very essence of our business creating new service-centric business models across a broad value-chain that includes developers, advertisers, and our commercial partners.”

“Artilium unifies IP, PSTN, ISDN, and GSM network communications and provides the framework that securely opens the mobile network to rapid application innovation,” said Artilium Chief Executive Officer Robert Marcus.

About KPN

KPN is a leading international telecommunications and ICT service provider, offering wireline and wireless telephony, internet, and TV to consumers and end-to-end telecom and ICT services to business customers. The international KPN data and IP services are enabled through an extensive, high-capacity fiber-optic network in 22 European countries, plus worldwide connections to 180 countries. KPN’s subsidiary Getronics operates a global ICT services company with a market leading position in the Benelux, offering end-to-end solutions in infrastructure and network-related IT. In Germany and Belgium, KPN pursues a multi-brand strategy in its mobile operations and holds number three market positions through E-Plus and BASE. The firm provides wholesale network services to third parties and operates an efficient IP-based infrastructure with global scale in international wholesale through iBasis.

By 31 December 2007, KPN served over 35 million customers, of which 27 million were using wireless services, 5.4 million in wireline voice, 2.4 million in broadband Internet and 0.5 million were in TV. With 25,500 FTEs (43,531 FTEs including Getronics), KPN posted revenues of EUR 12.6bn in 2007 (As of today about USD $19.4bn), with an EBITDA of EUR 4.9bn (As of today about USD 7.6bn). KPN was incorporated in 1989 and is listed on the Amsterdam, New York, London and Frankfurt stock exchanges.

For more information, please visit their website: http://www.kpn.com/international

About Artilium

Artilium develops carrier-grade software that unifies communications and opens mobile networks to user-generated mobile Internet application development and innovation, enabling rapid creation of a virtually infinite ecosystem of autonomous software processes interoperating as services in an open yet structured and secure architecture. Artilium’s ARTA Connected Mobile Services Framework is an open, modular and highly extensible Service-Oriented Architecture that includes a Service Creation Environment, a real-time Service Delivery Platform including an Intelligent Network, and a Mobile Presence Server that intelligently combines highly accurate, continuous real-time location and state awareness to enable a vast range of new mobile commerce, advertising and social networking services based on the company’s patented Tri-Cell Intelligent Location System (TILS).

Founded in 1995 and recognized for advanced and innovative engineering, Artilium has completed more than 40 installations serving tens of millions of end-users in 11 countries.

Artilium plc is a publicly listed company with AIM on the London Stock Exchange (LSE/AIM: ARTA). The company is based in Belgium.

Websites: http://www.artilium.com
http://www.kpn.com/international