2006-09-29

Turkcell extends partnership with Birdstep Technology (OSE filling July 6, 2006)

Oslo/Stockholm/Seattle/Cambridge – September 29, 2006 –Birdstep Technology ASA, the leading provider of seamless connectivity and mobility software for laptop, PDA's and Smartphones, announce a new extended partnership agreement with Turkcell. The new agreement will further boost the successful uptake of mobile internet services provided by Turkcell.

Birdstep Technology will deliver a new updated software version of Turkcell Connect with support for a broad range of new PC card and mobile telephone devices. The solution is based on the one-click patented software that allows users to quickly and easily access all available data services provided by Turkcell across all the wireless technologies.

Birdstep has, through the experience of more than 30 operator deployments, the expertise needed to provide the best ease-of-connectivity client in the market. Birdstep's mission is to be the leading provider of products and services for easy and simple access to mobile networks and services. Our software solutions are daily enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of enterprise users all over the world. It has given Birdstep the leading technical and commercial experience necessary to guide our customers to successful market launch.

"One of our main objectives is to continuously strengthen our role as an important business partner to Turkcell in increasing the usage of mobile internet services and data traffic as such. This new software client has been designed to support Turkcells high ambitions in the mobile internet service area" explains Petri Markkanen, CEO with Birdstep Technology.

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