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Televigation Mobile Phone Navigation
Technology Successfully Completes GPRS Applications Testing with Ericsson's
Mobile Applications Initiative
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Nov. 29, 2000--Televigation, a leading provider of
personal real-time dynamic navigation technology, announced today that Snap-to-Map(TM), its
real-time navigation system, has successfully completed Ericsson's (Nasdaq:ERICY) General Packet
Radio Services (GPRS) Applications Performance Evaluation at the company's Berkeley Wireless
Center.
The completion of the tests demonstrates that Televigation's Snap-to-Map navigation system is ready
for deployment in live GPRS networks.
Televigation is a member of Ericsson's Mobile Applications Initiative (MAI), a strategic program that
offers developers the opportunity to create, test, optimize and showcase mobile Internet applications for
GPRS and third generation (3G) technologies. Additionally, Snap-to-Map will be showcased in the
Ericsson Berkeley Wireless Center's mobile Internet applications demonstration area.
"Designed with the planned evolution of mobile infrastructure in mind, Televigation's Snap-to-Map is
"future-proof," said Sammy Nassar, vice president business development, Televigation. "This test by
Ericsson, confirming Snap-to-Map's operational compatibility with GPRS, demonstrates the advantage
of this "build for tomorrow" strategy."
In bringing together real-time navigation through mobile phones and a highly developed GPRS
platform, Televigation can offer wireless operators value added features that will significantly enhance
their location-based m-commerce applications. Using Televigation's real-time navigation technology on
a GPRS platform, mobile phone users will have access to streaming video, scrolling maps, and
improved photo rendering that can be used to clearly locate or identify landmarks and general points of
interest making personal navigation, much more exciting.
Televigation successfully tested its technology through MAI's application optimization program, which
allows developers to optimize their applications in two different testing environments. The Global
Application Test Environment (GATE) provides developers a first impression of how an application
might behave when implemented on a GPRS network. The second environment, the GATE Application
Performance Evaluation, is a more extensive series of tests targeted at determining how applications will
perform in a live GPRS environment.
GPRS is a packet-based wireless communication service that provides a continuous connection to
the Internet and data rates up to 115 Kbps for mobile phone users. The introduction of GPRS is one of
the key steps in the evolution of today's Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) networks to
3G, and GSM operators around the world are upgrading their networks with a view to launching
commercial GPRS services this year. Ericsson has announced 51 commercial GPRS agreements and
has already delivered 50 standard compatible GPRS solutions to leading operators in Europe,
Asia-Pacific, and the Americas.
About Televigation
Televigation is a leading provider of personal real-time navigation technology. Through wireless
devices such as cell phones and wireless PDAs, Televigation powers fast-growing location-based
services from wireless operators, voice and wireless-web portals, and value-added service providers.
Major industries leading the m-Commerce expansion such as business travel, tourism, and entertainment
will benefit from Televigation's revolutionary technology. The company established its technological
leadership in June 2000 by demonstrating its Snap-to-Map(TM) dynamic navigation to the millions of
current subscribers with regular mobile phones. For more information, visit the company's website at
www.televigation.com.
Snap-to-Map is a mark of Televigation. All other marks are property of their respective owners.
CONTACT:
Montner & Associates
Debra Montner, 203/226-9290
dmontner@montner.com
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