Wholesale Applications Community Grows as 32 New Members Join the Open Applications Initiative

Operators, OEM and Vendors join WAC, WAC 1.0 specification announced

LONDON, October 18, 2010 - The Wholesale Applications Community (WAC), an alliance of
telecommunications companies committed to building an open applications
platform, today announced that 32 new organisations from across the mobile
ecosystem, including operators, vendors and OEMs, have joined the initiative.
WAC today also announced the availability of the WAC 1.0 specification
following the completion of the WAC and JIL merger at the beginning of the
month. WAC 1.0 is based upon JIL 1.2.2 and is available to download at
www.wholesaleappcommunity.com.

Industry ecosystem leaders joining WAC at the board level are Accenture,
Ericsson, Huawei, Intel, Qualcomm Incorporated and Samsung. These
organisations join current board members in setting the strategic direction
and evolution of WAC and will be able to launch WAC-enabled storefronts.

"WAC now has 48 members committed to building open platforms, simplifying
the application development process for developers and providing their
customers with greater choice," said Peters Suh, CEO of WAC. "The influx of
new members, combined with our continued delivery against key milestones,
demonstrates that the WAC initiative is gaining significant momentum in the
market."

Michel Combes, Chairman WAC commented, "It is great to see so many
companies adding their support to the WAC initiative. Quite simply, our goal
is to speed up the development of applications so that operators, developers
and customers can benefit."

Operators joining WAC at Operator Member level are America Movil, Bell
Mobility, Bouygues Telecom, China Unicom, Hutchison 3 Group, KDDI, LG Uplus,
MTS, Orascom Telecom, Rogers Communications and SFR. Companies joining WAC as
Sponsor Members include Alcatel-Lucent, Fujitsu, and LG Electronics. WAC
Operators and Sponsors will be able to launch WAC-enabled storefronts and
benefit from their substantial commitment to the WAC organisation. New
Associate Members include Aplix, ASPire, Borqs, Capgemini, Innoace, LiMo
Foundation, Myriad Group, Oberthur Technologies, Obigo, Opera Software,
Oracle Corporation and ZTE. The whole WAC membership have the opportunity to
get involved in the working groups of the organisation and have access to WAC
documents, specifications and code.

In addition, demonstrating continued momentum, WAC announced the
completion of the purchase of the JIL assets on 1st October 2010. The
completion of the acquisition is the final stage of the process to combine
JIL with WAC, and enables WAC to provide the WAC 1.0 specification to the
developer community.

"The availability of the WAC 1.0 specification sends out a strong message
to the developer community that we are committed to working with them to
create cross-platform applications that will benefit the entire mobile
communications ecosystem" continued Suh.

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.

Current WAC members are as follows:

Accenture, Alcatel-Lucent, Aplix, America Movil, ASPire, AT&T, Bell
Mobility, Borqs, Bougyues Telecom, Capgemini, China Mobile, China Unicom,
Deutsche Telekom, Ericsson, France Telecom, Fujitsu, Huawei, Hutchison 3
Group, Innoace, Intel, KDDI, KT Corporation, LG Electronics, LG Uplus, LiMo
Foundation, MTS, Myriad Group, NTT DOCOMO, Oberthur Technologies, Obigo,
Opera Software, Orascom Telecom, Oracle Corporation, Qualcomm Incorporated,
Rogers Communications, Samsung, SFR, SK Telecom, Smart Communications,
SOFTBANK MOBILE, Telecom Italia, Telefonica, Telekom Austria Group, Telenor,
Verizon, Vodafone, ZTE and the GSMA.

For more information, please go to www.wholesaleappcommunity.com

Phil Rawcliffe, +44-07889-320159, press at wholesaleappcommunity.com