THE HAGUE, Netherlands, & BRUSSELS, Belgium - (Business Wire) Today, KPN Mobile International, a leading European provider of next-generation telecommunications services, and Artilium (LSE/AIM:ARTA), a leading European developer of software for mobile network operators, announced their partnership to create new opportunities for user-generated applications on KPN
’s mobile networks.
The software enabling this transformation is Artilium’s Real-Time Architecture (ARTA) for Connected Mobile Services, designed to facilitate rapid creation of new mobile applications, packaged as services. ARTA is designed and developed by Artilium on the Microsoft Platform.
The partnership includes a licensing agreement allowing KPN deployment of ARTA as a platform for next-generation converged services across its growing base of more than 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 MVNOs (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 personalisation 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. “We are delighted to be partnering with KPN in this groundbreaking work that brings with it an unprecedented level of business model originality and value-chain diversity.”
Commenting on the agreement, Steve Zimba, Managing Director, Global Telecom Business at Microsoft Corp., said: “We are excited that KPN and Artilium have chosen the Microsoft platform to power their ecosystem of connected mobile services. We will be working closely together to help make this great vision a compelling reality for the millions of consumers who are eager to embrace rich, personalized and contextually aware mobile experiences.”
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 fibre-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. KPN provides wholesale network services to third parties and operates an efficient IP-based infrastructure with global scale in international wholesale through iBasis. At December 31, 2007, KPN served over 35 million customers, of which 27 million are in wireless services, 5.4 million in wireline voice, 2.4 million in broadband Internet and 0.5 million in TV. With 25,500 FTEs (43,531 FTEs including Getronics), KPN posted revenues of EUR 12.6bn in 2007, with an EBITDA of EUR 4.9bn. KPN was incorporated in 1989 and is listed on the Amsterdam, New York, London and Frankfurt stock exchanges. For more information, visit 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. For more information, visit www.artilium.com.
Artilium (USA)
Jeff Fishburn, 503-802-4408
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Artilium (Europe)
Anne Walker, +44 (0)20 7402 7349
anne.walker@artilium.com
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KPN
KPN Press office, +31 70 446 63 00
