Contract Renewal

Eckoh Technologies PLC
18 April 2006


For immediate release                                              18 April 2006

                             Eckoh Technologies plc

  Eckoh Technologies renew interactive telephony contract with ITV and win new
                             contract with ITV Play

Eckoh Technologies plc ("Eckoh"), one of Europe's largest speech application
service providers, today announced that it has been re-appointed by ITV, the
UK's biggest commercial television network, to provide premium rate telephone
services for programming on it's channels. Eckoh has also been appointed as the
preferred telephony supplier for ITV's new channel ITV Play which will focus on
'participation TV' programming.

The new contract, which runs until at least September 2007, was awarded
following a year in which Eckoh has successfully managed telephone services for
ITV across more than thirty hit shows including I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of
Here!, Celebrity Love Island, Soapstar Superstar, Ant and Dec's Gameshow
Marathon and This Morning. In this period Eckoh have successfully handled more
than 30 million calls for ITV.

Eckoh anticipates that revenues from the new contract will be significantly
higher than those generated in the previous year with the introduction of ITV
Play in April 2006. ITV Play programming will be shown across ITV's family of
channels, and on the ITV Play channel when it launches on the Digital
Terrestrial Television and Digital Satellite Television platforms.

The technical development work and infrastructure necessary for the Play formats
is substantially more complex than for traditional broadcast generated
telephony, and Eckoh's experience in delivering and managing high-end
applications through their Speech Solutions division was a critical factor in
ITV's decision that Eckoh was also the right partner for ITV Play. As part of
this development Eckoh's proprietary real-time monitoring console VISTA (Viewer
Interaction Statistical Analysis) has been upgraded to create VISTA-PLAY, which
will enable the production teams on the various Play formats to see instantly a
comprehensive snapshot of statistical analysis and to use this to tailor how the
audience interacts with the shows.

ITV will continue to use Eckoh's market leading call processing platform which,
with around 10,000 ports, is the largest of its kind in the UK, enabling
services to be launched quickly and with the maximum flexibility.

Nik Philpot, Chief Operating Officer for Eckoh Technologies, says:

"The ITV contract is the largest and most prestigious telephony contract in the
media sector to be awarded and this is now the third time in a row that Eckoh
has been fortunate enough to win the business. It is a daily challenge to
deliver the quality of service ITV requires, and in particular to satisfy the
demands of live broadcasting across a 24 hour window, and huge credit must go to
the team at Eckoh who have helped us to retain the contract.

Once again we have seen year-on-year activity with ITV increase but what is
really exciting about the coming year is that we are expecting to see a quantum
jump in the revenue generated with the launch of the new Play formats which take
the idea of participation tv to a new level.

We are looking forward immensely to taking our partnership with ITV into this
new era."

Jane Marshall, Commercial Development Director of ITV Consumer, commented:

"Eckoh has delivered a first class performance throughout 2005, making it an
easy decision to reappoint the company as our supplier of PRTS services. The
breadth of services Eckoh provides and the clients that the company works with
gave us the confidence that it remained the right partner for ITV."



For further enquiries, please contact

Eckoh Technologies plc
Nik Philpot, Chief Operating Officer

Adam Moloney, Group Finance Director
www.eckoh.com                                                        Tel: [phone]

Buchanan Communications
Mark Edwards/Jeremy Garcia                                           Tel: [phone]



Notes to Editors

About Eckoh Technologies:

Eckoh Technologies plc designs, builds, hosts and manages speech solutions for
large corporations and organisations using ASR (Advanced Speech Recognition) and
IVR (Interactive Voice Response) technologies. It is a leading UK service
provider and infrastructure owner/operator, and intends to exploit the
anticipated growth in demand for speech solutions across Europe.

In 2003, Eckoh formed a strategic alliance with BT to capitalise on the growing
opportunity for speech technology in the corporate marketplace. The combined
strengths of both parties have created an unrivalled and value-added speech
proposition and clients of the alliance include: Barclays Stockbrokers, TD
Waterhouse, NIE, UGC Cinemas, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, National Rail Enquiries and
Three Valleys Water.

In addition to those above, Eckoh has direct contracts to supply hosted Speech
Solutions to clients including Vue Cinemas, William Hill, 02, Virgin Mobile,
Ideal Shopping Direct, Tote and The London Stock Exchange.

Eckoh is also a market leader in providing interactive services to large media
owners and has amongst its clients ITV, the UK's largest commercial broadcaster,
Trinity Mirror, the largest newspaper publisher and IPC, the leading consumer
magazines group.

Eckoh has a call processing platform of 10,000 lines (capable of handling over
650,000 calls an hour) of which over 8,000 lines incorporate speech recognition
technology making it the largest speech enabled call processing platform in
Europe.

In September 2005 Symphony Telecom Holdings plc ("Symphony"), a wholly owned
subsidiary of Eckoh was floated separately on AIM. Eckoh now holds a 64.64%
shareholding in Symphony Telecom Holdings plc. STH - under the "Symphony" and "
Anglia" brands - supplies fixed line and mobile telephony products and services,
to SMEs in the UK and Ireland.

In the first 6 months trading to 30 September 2005 Eckoh Technologies plc
generated a turnover of £55 million and had a cash balance of £12.5m. Further
information can be found at www.eckoh.com.


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