Farncombe Consulting Group Acquires Mirifice Professional Services Business

BASINGSTOKE, England and BATH, England, July 26, 2010 - Farncombe Consulting Group, the privately-owned European TV services
consultancy, has acquired Mirifice Ltd's Professional Services business. The
deal significantly enhances the scope and scale of the services Farncombe can
offer its clients through its newly-created engineering services and testing
practices.

"This agreement is a perfect fit for us," said Farncombe Managing Partner
Dr Stephen Upton. "The Mirifice team complements and strengthens the skills
and experience that Farncombe can offer its existing clients. Farncombe now
has the capability to provide end-to-end consulting services to the digital
video sector: from strategy and business planning through to implementation
and testing."

Mirifice sold its Professional Services business to focus on developing
and marketing its successful products, which include the MiriATE test
automation system and the MiriMON set-top box monitoring solution. Farncombe
will work closely with Mirifice, as a partner of choice, offering solutions
based on these products.

"This mutually-beneficial deal allows Mirifice to have the single focus
of growing its successful products business and ensures even better services
for our existing clients," said Andrew Barker, CEO of Mirifice Ltd. "Clients
of Mirifice Professional Services will continue to be supported by the same
personnel, but will now be able to take advantage of the additional resources
and expertise offered by the Farncombe Group."

All Mirifice Professional Services employees and associates have now
transferred to Farncombe, including Managing Partner Gary Marshall and Sales
Director Geoff Aitken.

Gary Marshall said he was pleased that Mirifice's Professional Services
team were now part of the Farncombe Consulting Group. "Having worked
alongside Farncombe on projects for our customers it is great to be part of
the group. We will now be able to offer clients a truly comprehensive project
experience from inception to delivery. The Farncombe Group is now one of the
leading specialist Digital TV consultancies worldwide."

About Farncombe Consulting Group

The Farncombe Consulting Group is a specialised professional services
firm operating in the broad digital video technology, telecoms and digital
media sectors. Initially focused on pay-TV and digital TV technology through
founder company Farncombe Technology, it has since grown into a
globally-recognized television consultancy, servicing a large international
client roster that includes broadcasters, operators, telcos, hardware and
software suppliers and a variety of government, regulatory bodies and private
equity companies.

The Farncombe Consulting Group's current focus is on the increased
opportunities made available by a converging market which extends from cable,
satellite and terrestrial delivery to telco-managed IPTV, video-over-Internet
and mobile TV offerings.

The Group comprises a number of practice areas covering a wide range of
core skills. These include:

    - Strategy
    - Technology Consulting
    - Programme Management
    - Content Security
    - System Integration
    - Engineering Services
    - Test and Certification
    - Design

About Mirifice

Mirifice helps TV network operators and consumer device manufacturers to
provide their customers with a better quality of experience, ensuring greater
customer satisfaction and lower costs. Mirifice's software products include
MiriATE and MiriMON.

MiriATE, a powerful system for testing set-top boxes and the Digital TV
services accessed through them, reduces time-to-market and ensures that the
consumer receives a high-quality product.

MiriMON, the award-winning system for real-time monitoring of interactive
TV, gives operators a live view of the customer experience they deliver.
MiriMON alerts the operator to service delivery problems and provides
root-cause analysis to support fault resolution.

Our customers include ADB, Amino, Austar, BT, Comstar Direct, DTG,
Miniweb, Pace, Sony, Telenor, and Top-Up TV.

www.mirifice.com

    Basingstoke            London
    Belvedere              Liberty House
    Basing View            222 Regent Street
    Basingstoke            London
    RG21 4HG               W1B 5TR
    UK                     UK
    farncombe@ftl.co.uk    farncombe@farncombestrategy.com

    Paris                  Dusseldorf
    17 rue de l'Echiquier  Grafenberger Allee 363
    75010 Paris            40235 Dusseldorf
    France                 Germany
    farncombe@farncombe.eu farncombe@farncombe.de

For further information about this press release, contact either
Farncombe or Mirifice as below:

    Farncombe Consulting Group
    Mrs Georgina Saunders
    Email: Georgina.Saunders@ftl.co.uk
    www.farncombe.eu
    Mirifice Ltd
    Andy Scott
    Email: andy.scott@mirifice.com
    www.mirifice.com

Basingstoke, Belvedere, Basing View, Basingstoke, RG21 4HG, UK, +44-1256-844161, farncombe at ftl.co.uk; London, Liberty House, 222 Regent Street, London, W1B 5TR, UK, +44-20 7297-2002, farncombe at farncombestrategy.com; Paris, 17 rue de l'Echiquier, 75010 Paris, +33-1-71-18-29-86, farncombe at farncombe.eu; Dusseldorf, Grafenberger Allee 363, 40235 Dusseldorf, Germany, +49-211-1655118, farncombe at farncombe.de; Farncombe Consulting Group, Mrs Georgina Saunders, Email: Georgina.Saunders at ftl.co.uk, Mirifice Ltd, Andy Scott, Email: andy.scott at mirifice.com