Partnership agreement

Mobile Tornado Group PLC 28 September 2007 Mobile Tornado Group plc ('Mobile Tornado' or 'the Company') Mobile Tornado expands its business into South America Partnership agreement with TecnoVoz Limited Mobile Tornado, one of the world leaders in convergent, instant communications, today announces that is has signed a partnership agreement with TecnoVoz Limited ('TecnoVoz') in Argentina to provide Push To Talk over Cellular ('PoC') services to the enterprise and mobile operator market. Branded 'Walkei Talkei' this service is commercially available immediately. Until now, mobile operators and enterprise organisations have traditionally had to incur significant capital expenditure in order to roll out new value added services including Push to Talk ('PTT') . Now operators and enterprises can enjoy using instant voice communications in a cost effective manner. Under the terms of the deal, TecnoVoz will host Mobile Tornado's Push-To-Xperience platform providing access to PTT services. Mobile Tornado is responsible for supplying software licences to its patented IPRS PTT system, and providing 3rd line support. Jeremy Fenn, CFO of Mobile Tornado, said: 'Mobile Tornado is pleased to announce its expansion into South America. Following successful deployments of the Company's flagship PTT product in North America, Europe, Middle East and Asia Pacific we are ready to bring cutting edge telecommunication technologies to the South American market. .A combination of rapidly developing regional economies with largely untapped customer bases in both corporate and consumer sectors creates a unique opportunity for our products in that region. PTT communication solutions are almost non existent in the South American markets and Mobile Tornado is in a strong position to bridge that gap.' For further details please contact: Mobile Tornado Group plc Jeremy Fenn, Chief Financial Officer Tel: +44 (0) 7734 475888 Blue Oar Securities Plc Romil Patel / Rhod Cruwys Tel: +44 (0)20 7448 4400 Buchanan Communications Charles Ryland / James Strong Tel: +44 (0)20 7466 5000 About Mobile Tornado Group Plc Mobile Tornado's Push-To-Xperience platform enables service providers to transform their mobile communications services from separate voice and data functionality to powerful, ubiquitous systems that can deliver multiple mobile services simultaneously. Mobile Tornado's ground-breaking technology powers communication sessions which can instantaneously transmit voice, text or other data, and video clips with an easy-to-use, one-click, 'push-to' button on their mobile phone. 'Push-To' sessions can occur one-to-one, one-to-many, mobile-to-PC and PC-to-mobile, worldwide. Push-To-Xperience provides a real-time presence as users leverage their Internet identity to communicate with their contacts and can instantly see their contacts that are online, just like a desktop-based Internet Messaging session. Mobile Tornado sells software licences and services to mobile operators and enterprises worldwide through a number of distribution partners.. Mobile Tornado specialises in providing platforms and applications in the mobile data services market including presence-based messaging, Push-To-Talk, Push-To-Video and related services. More information about Mobile Tornado is available at http:// www.mobiletornado.com/ This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
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