Pace’s Revolutionary App Café Available for Commercial Deployment

SALTAIRE, England, June 15, 2011 -

- Pace Application Store Ready for
Deployment by Operators Across
USA, Canada and Latin
America

Pace (LSE: PIC), a leading technology provider for the global payTV
industry, today announces that its groundbreaking App Café platform
is ready for deployment throughout the Americas. The Pace App Café
offers cable subscribers access to popular Web-based applications
via their set-top box for the first time, increasing the range of
entertainment available via the television set.

The Pace App Café is a unique service allowing cable operators
to harness the potential of online applications within an
integrated managed TV service. It offers applications in a
storefront format for subscribers to download directly to their
set-top boxes, enhancing their entertainment experience and
solidifying the service provider’s position at the heart of the
home.

Pace App Café enables payTV operators to offer a range of social
networking, gaming and Video on Demand (VoD) applications. In
addition, the company has worked with web-based TV technology
platform, Clearleap, to offer IP-based video services delivered
through customizable, white-labelled applications. This provides
operators with a cost effective method of delivering unlimited
hours of on-demand content to consumers over the high speed data
path.

Pace has also partnered with Universal Electronics
to integrate its UEI Velocity remote control with
QWERTY keyboard and UEI QuickSearch remote control setup
application, enhancing the usability and navigation of the App Café
and applications.

The Pace App Café will provide subscribers with access to
high-profile and popular online services including:

• Popular social networking services
• Internet radio and music
• Online photo and video sharing     
       
• Weather
• Personal finance
• Sports scores
• Operator service and support

Tim O’Loughlin, SVP of Sales and Customer Support, Pace
Americas, commented: “There is a rapidly growing desire amongst
consumers to access a range of different content on their TV and
the Pace App Café is the perfect response. The App Café offers our
service provider customers an extensive choice of applications, so
that they can deliver the best possible range of services to their
subscribers.”

The Pace App Café will be customised with each operator’s unique
brand and allows them to create custom applications. Operators will
have administrative control over the available applications in
their library, which they can then package as part of their
existing service or make them an additional offering.  

The applications can pull their data feed from any Internet
connection in the home or from the DOCSIS modems embedded in nearly
all Pace set-top boxes.

The onscreen presentation of each application is designed to
work alongside the existing electronic program guide and VoD
applications.  Many of the applications have the ability to
coexist with live or recorded television programming, so
subscribers can get constant, real-time information updates while
watching television.

The Pace App Café is based on Pace’s Engineware™ software
platform and is underpinned by a standards-based Flash Lite® Engine
and published Software Development Kit (SDK).

Pace will be demonstrating the App Café on its booth at The
Cable Show in Chicago (# 649).

About Pace plc

Pace plc (LSE:PIC) is a leading technology developer for the
global payTV industry, working across satellite, cable, IPTV and
terrestrial platforms.  Pace has one of the world’s most
experienced specialist engineering teams, developing intelligent
and innovative products and services for both payTV operators and
retail markets across the world.

Pace employs over 2000 people in locations that include the UK,
the USA, France, India and China.  Pace’s international
headquarters are in Saltaire, West Yorkshire, UK. For more
information on Pace, please visit href="www.pace.com/">www.pace.com

About Clearleap

Clearleap’s IP-based content management and delivery platform
enables the efficient, cost effective delivery of video to linear
channels, VOD, broadband, and consumer electronic devices.
Clearleap’s technology offers both video service and content
providers services to vastly improve workflow, monetization, and
content capabilities.  Founded by a team of TV technology
veterans and industry experts, Clearleap is based in Atlanta, GA
with offices in New York City and San Francisco and data centers in
New York, Los Angeles and Atlanta. All Clearleap products can be
offered as hosted, cloud-based solutions or licensed software
products. For more information,
visit www.clearleap.com.

For further information, contact: Paul Crouch, Chameleon PR, Paul.crouch at chameleonpr.com , +44-(0)207-680-5500. For further information, contact: Jason Damata, Fabric Media, jason at fabricmedia.net , m: +1-917-279-8706.