Wholesale Applications Community Grows as 10 New Members Join the Open Applications Initiative

Membership reaches 68 as organisation readies for global commercial launch

LONDON, February 9, 2011 - The Wholesale Applications Community (WAC), an alliance of
telecommunications companies committed to building an open applications
platform, today announced that 10 additional organisations from across the
mobile ecosystem have joined the initiative, taking membership levels to 68
companies in the lead up to Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

Adobe, Amdocs, Eyeline, HP, IBM, Minigate, Neustar, Panasonic, SAP and
SanDisk have all joined WAC, enabling them to access the materials and
support required to launch WAC products. Each company will bring its own
unique level of expertise that will support WAC in providing solutions that
will accelerate and expand the market for applications and provide greater
choice for consumers.

"We continue to attract a healthy pipeline of members from across the
mobile industry, as evidenced by companies such as HP, IBM and SAP joining
the programme," said Peters Suh, CEO, WAC. "In Barcelona, we will be
revealing much more in terms of WAC's momentum, with WAC-enabled application
stores and fully functional WAC devices supporting the latest applications."

WAC Press Conference at Mobile World Congress

WAC will be holding a press conference on Monday 14th February at 14:00
in Hall 5, Room 3 to detail the commercial launch of the organisation,
supported by CEOs from a number of member organisations. The press conference
is open to press and analysts attending Mobile World Congress.

About the Wholesale Applications Community

Launched in February 2010, the Wholesale Applications Community (WAC) is
an open global alliance formed from leading organisations within the telecoms
sector. Uniting a fragmented applications marketplace, WAC will create an
open industry platform that benefits the entire ecosystem, including
applications developers, handset manufacturers, OS owners, network operators
and end users.

    The Wholesale Applications Community will:
    -- Accelerate and expand the market for applications - Simplify
       application development by giving developers the opportunity to write
       applications that can be deployed across multiple platforms and
       multiple operators, and address a potential global market of more than
       3 billion users.
    -- Create more compelling applications - Enable developers to utilise
       both device and network capabilities to create the next generation of
       applications.
    -- Provide greater choice for users - Enable portability of applications
       across devices, operating systems and network operators.

For a list of members and more information, please go to
www.wacapps.net

Phil Rawcliffe, +44-07889-320159, phil.rawcliffe at wacapps.net