Bruges, 30 June 2010. Artilium (AIM:ARTA), the developer and seller of advanced software to telecoms companies and service providers, announces its pre-close trading update ahead of the announcement of its results for the year ended 30 June 2010 which is expected mid October 2010. The Company continues to have a solid financial base and trading, for the 12 month period to 30 June 2010, was in line with management expectations.

Business overview

Artilium, whose clients include BT, Vodafone Spain, Ziggo (NL), Belgacom Mobile (BE) Telenet and KPN provides services through its ARTA technology platform which offers three service offerings which meet a number of current and future needs within the Telecoms industry:

A Mobile Virtual Network Enabler ("MVNE"): provides Telecom operators and Mobile Virtual Network Operators ("MVNO") with a low cost solution for creating a commercial communications network for communities and companies. This concept is currently being used by KPN Group Belgium and Proximus in Belgium, offering interest groups the capability to have their own mobile networks. Artilium intend to set up similar services based on the ARTA platform in other countries.

Location Based Services ("LBS"): a low cost, low energy use mobile phone based alternative to GPS for movement tracking and tracing for customers ranging from haulage firms through to families wishing to locate their children.

A real time intelligent routing solution: provides the most cost effective and efficient use of the network to Mobile Network Operator’s and MVNO’s. This is particularly effective in promoting Fixed Mobile Convergence on a network.

Artilium’s ARTA platform essentially enables telecoms companies to market to consumers in a highly targeted manner, creating packages which are tailor made to the precise requirements of small groups of subscribers such as a football team or a municipality.

Trading and performance

In 2010, Artilium retained all of its existing clients and also signed new contracts for a total value of circa Euro 1 million with Lebara for low cost rerouting of calls and with Interfon for their MVNE platform with Mobistar in Belgium. There are several contracts for b2b location and presence services currently in negotiation and on 29 June Artilium signed a license agreement with Random Infotech to deliver tracking and tracing services to the Indian market. A new contract was also signed with Narrowminds to deliver our presence capabilities to enable mobile coupons and locations based feedback services. Having demonstrated the ARTA platform’s MVNE capabilities in Belgium, we intend to launch our own MVNE in the Netherlands in the second half of 2010. We have successfully concluded the testing of our proprietary LBS technology on the Dutch KPN network and hope to start pilots in the coming months with internal LBS services, rolling out to external customers soon after.

During the course of the year, in order to support the continued development and marketing of our cutting edge software, we have considerably strengthened the management team at Artilium including the appointment of two new Non Executive Directors; Adrie Reinders and Thomas Trainers who both bring a wealth of plc experience from the technology and telecoms sectors. Fred Mulder has become the Executive Chairman and Maarten Bisseling was confirmed in the role of Chief Executive Officer.

We have also streamlined the structure of Artilium considerably with improved service management, software development planning and the quoting process. Most importantly, in 2010 Artilium introduced a new fee structure, charging customers on an operational expenses basis as opposed to upfront capital expenditure costs, thereby better aligning Artilium interests with that of its clients.

Since the majority of our revenues are received in Euros, henceforth the Company has decided to report its results in Euros. Artilium’s share price will continue to be listed in pounds sterling.

Commenting on the announcement, CEO Maarten Bisseling said:

“It has been a busy year for Artilium as we have worked on building the necessary infrastructure to support the marketing of our cutting edge ARTA technology. We believe that the strength of our product offering can be seen both from the retention of our existing customers as well as the recent signing of new contracts. Our focus will now be on providing proof of concept of our own Mobile Voice Network Enabler within The Netherlands in order to be able to roll this service out into other markets to provide tailored communications solutions at low cost to communities for whom this has previously been too expensive.”

For further information contact:

Artilium PLC:
+32 (0)50230300
Fred Mulder
Maarten Bisseling

Arbuthnot Securities:
+44 20 7012 2000
Antonio Bossi
Ed Groome

Cardew Group:
+44 20 7930 0777
Tim Robertson
James Milton

Artilium (AIM:ARTA), the developer of advanced software for telecoms networks, announces that it has signed new contracts worth approximately Euro 1 million to provide solutions to two of its existing customers, which will be delivered over the next few months.

The first contract, worth circa Euro 0.4 million is with Lebara, a Mobile Virtual Network Operator ("MVNO") with over 2.5 million customers in Continental Europe, the UK, and Australia, to which Artilium currently provides Intelligent Least Cost Routing through its ARTA Service Delivery Platform. The contract will double the capacity of Lebara’s current platform over the coming months from 60 to 120 call attempts per seconds ("CAPS") in steps of an additional 10 CAPS per step.

The second contract, worth circa Euro 0.6 million will be to provide the ARTA Mobile Network Enabler Platform to another existing client, who currently operates fixed line telephony services on the ARTA platform from Belgium. This new Mobile Virtual Network Enabler ("MVNE") targets several MVNOs with an overall subscriber base of 100,000 active subscribers.  The software will primarily focus on the delivery of Intelligent Roaming services. This contract is the first licence agreement signed by Artilium based on the new operating expenditure ("OPEX") licence strategy which, Artilium believes, better aligns its business with that of its clients.

An important additional benefit from these contracts is that Artilium will now have ARTA platforms connected to all Mobile Network Operators ("MNO") active in Belgium, facilitating the provision of services to MVNOs.

Artilium plans to issue an end of year statement on 30 June 2010 that will include a review of its product development, trading and new contract wins throughout the year.

Maarten Bisseling, CEO, said:

“We are very pleased to announce these new contract wins, particularly since they come from existing clients who wish to expand the services currently provided to them by Artilium.  The contracts also demonstrate the versatility of the ARTA platform in providing a wide range of network solutions.  Furthermore, all MNOs active in Belgium will now be connected to an ARTA platform, which will make it easier for us to provide additional services to both new and existing customers, as we continue to focus on winning new contracts for our products and services. We are particularly pleased to see that the change in sales strategy has now resulted in the first OPEX based licence contract.”

For further information contact:

Artilium PLC:
+32 (0)50230300
Fred Mulder
Maarten Bisseling

Arbuthnot Securities: +44 20 7012 2000
Antonio Bossi
Ed Groome

Cardew Group:
+44 20 7930 0777
Tim Robertson
James Milton

About Artilium
Artilium develops advanced software for telecom networks. The Company’s ARTA Service Delivery Platform ("ARTA") provides Telecom Operators and others with disruptive solutions in 3 main areas:

- Presence Solutions including ARTA’s own proprietary Location Technology based on mobile network signaling
- End to end MVNE/MVNO solutions enabling communities to have their own mobile or convergence offerings in the market
- Intelligent Routing Solutions enabling operators and others to real time manage the routing of their telecom traffic

The ARTA architecture allows third party developers to create specific services and applications in these three areas. ARTA is built on the most trusted application platform in the telecom industry. Its robust and scalable infrastructure and flexible architecture enables the continuous deployment of updated services in response to any future need. The ARTA Platform provides an open infrastructure that enables operators and service providers to create, deliver and manage services and applications efficiently. ARTA opens telecoms networks to third-party applications and connected social media, generating a new value-chain that includes advertisers, content providers, Internet service providers, social networks, mobile network operators and software developers. 

Founded in 1995, the Company has more than 40 installations serving millions of users in 11 countries. Artilium is a publicly listed company on AIM of the London Stock Exchange (LSE/AIM: ARTA) with offices in Belgium and the United Kingdom. For more information, please visit: www.artilium.com

Artilium Announces ARTA8 General Availability on June 30, 2009

Amsterdam April 2, 2009 – Today, Artilium plc, developer of advanced Mobile 2.0 software for telecoms networks, and Microsoft Corp., announced their partnership to build a mobile application developer ecosystem today at an oversubscribed developer evangelism day at Microsoft’s Dutch subsidiary headquarters outside Amsterdam, where attendees will be taught how to best utilize familiar Microsoft tools and technologies to build unique experiences for Artilium’s ARTA Mobile Applications Platform via the Windows Mobile platform including the Windows Mobile 6 SDK and .NET Compact Framework 3.5. With more than 20,000 applications already in market, Windows Mobile is among the most popular platforms for developers. Windows Mobile 6.5, the next generation of the Windows Mobile operating system, will allow developers to build innovative mobile applications without having to learn new skills or programming languages, by leveraging familiar desktop and server development tools such as Win32, Active Template Library and Microsoft Foundation Classes (Visual C++), Visual C#, Visual Basic .NET, ASP.NET and asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX).

“Microsoft’s strong relationship with developers has led to some of the most exciting innovations in the software industry” said Ruud de Jonge, Director of Development and Platform Evangelism at Microsoft Netherlands. “We’ll continue our collaboration with Artilium to engage developers. The response to this seminar is evidence of the incredible opportunity that mobile represents to applications developers.”

At the event, Artilium announced the June 30, 2009 general availability of ARTA8, the next generation of its mobile applications platform, with industry leading innovation that includes:

- Flexible and fast mobile network connectivity via ARTA Direct Network Access (DNA), a cloud-based media orchestration architecture and session control infrastructure, enables rapid connectivity, secure mobile network access, and cross-network interoperability, enabling ‘always-on’ intelligent signal and content processing/routing, cross-network

- Real-time subscriber data extraction and pattern matching via ARTA Mobile Presence, a behavioural profiling system based on continuous, intelligent, capture, combination and categorization of geo-spatial location, status and connectivity data to enable intelligent mapping and routing of highly relevant social networking, advertising and content delivery services

- Rapid applications delivery infrastructure via ARTA AppLAB, an online collaborative ecosystem and commercial marketplace that unites applications developers with operators, advertisers, brands, and service providers, centralizing, harmonizing and structuring cooperation, providing legal regulation and financial brokerage services to speed time-to-market and safeguard payment

Artilium’s Chief Executive Officer, Robert Marcus said,”Today marks achievement of a key milestone for Artilium, directly engaging the developer community with Microsoft to demonstrate the ease and speed of application and mashup development for mobile networks on ARTA. We’re thrilled also, to announce that ARTA8, the output of a powerful new wave of engineering innovation at Artilium will release to general availability on schedule by June 30, 2009. Developers at today’s event will be working on pre-release versions of ARTA8.”

About Artilium

Artilium develops advanced Mobile 2.0 software for telecoms networks. The Company’s ARTA Mobile Applications Platform opens mobile telecoms networks to third-party applications and connected social media, generating a new value-chain that includes advertisers, content providers, Internet service providers, social networks, mobile network operators and software developers.

Founded in 1995, the Company has more than 40 installations serving tens of millions of users in 11 countries. Artilium is a publicly listed company on AIM of the London Stock Exchange (LSE/AIM: ARTA) with offices in Belgium, France and the United Kingdom. For more information, please visit: www.artilium.com

About Microsoft

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.

For further information:

Artilium
Phone: +44 20 8133 3858
Email: info@artilium.com

February 10, 2009 – The Board of Artilium plc ("Artilium" or the “Company") announces today that it has signed a partnership agreement with Tata Consultancy Services Limited ("TCS"), a leader in IT services and business solutions. 

The non-exclusive agreement is composed of reseller, systems integration, hosted applications service delivery, and applications development components, the net effect of which is a TCS ARTA sales and service delivery capacity and projection. 

About Artilium

Artilium develops advanced Mobile 2.0 software for telecoms networks. The Company’s ARTA Mobile Applications Platform opens mobile telecoms networks to third-party applications and connected social media, generating a new value-chain that includes advertisers, content providers, Internet service providers, social networks, mobile network operators and software developers.

Founded in 1995, the Company has more than 40 installations serving tens of millions of users in 11 countries. Artilium is a publicly listed company on AIM of the London Stock Exchange (LSE/AIM: ARTA) with offices in Belgium, France and the United Kingdom. For more information, please visit: www.artilium.com

About TCS

Part of the Tata Group, TCS is a global IT organisation with over 130,000 consultants in 160 offices across 42 countries, and sales of $5.7 billion (fiscal year ending 31 March, 2008). Gartner named TCS as one of the top-ten global telecoms vendors.

For further information:

Artilium
Phone: +44 20 8133 3858
Email: info@artilium.com

Artilium, a leading telecoms software developer of Microsoft-based carrier-grade software for mobile network operators, is to increase its research and development activities and create 30 new jobs at its operations in Dunfermline, Scotland.

The new investment is being supported by Scottish Enterprise with a general Research and Development grant of £750,000 in conjunction with investment from Artilium.

“We chose Scotland as the base for our planned expansion in development capacity because of its highly-talented workforce, the excellence of its academic institutions, and the business environment we discovered there, which is clearly supportive of enterprise and innovation,” said Artilium Chief Executive Officer Robert Marcus.

Artilium’s office in Dunfermline holds key intellectual property for its Tri-cell Intelligent Location System technology, the backbone for the mobile presence capabilities of its ARTA Mobile Services Platform. Dr Gordon Povey, the VP of Mobile Development within Artilium, was previously an academic in communications technology at Edinburgh University and remains an Honorary Fellow at the university. He still maintains strong links with local universities including placement opportunities from students within Artilium to foster the development of talent within the area.

Enterprise Minister Jim Mather said: “The creation of 30 new R&D jobs at Artilium underlines Scotland’s reputation for innovation excellence and resourceful, inventive people. The Scottish Government is creating an environment in which more and more Scottish based research and development can flourish. Enterprising projects of this kind can help us turnaround decades of economic underperformance through increased, sustainable economic growth. I wish all at Artilium every success in developing this project.

Welcoming the investment, Linda McPherson, Regional Director East at Scottish Enterprise, said, “The decision by Artilium to invest in its R&D activities in Dunfermline is an indication of how highly Scotland and its talent is regarded – and with its high growth potential, it is exactly the kind of company that we want to encourage to stay in Scotland. The company’s leading-edge technology has placed Artilium at the forefront of its field and we are delighted that Scotland will play a role in taking this technology and reputation still further.”

ENDS

Notes:

R&D Grant
The general R&D grant, administered by Scottish Enterprise, provides support for innovative projects across Scotland. Three existing grant schemes have been consolidated into one general R&D grant to simplify the process of securing Government support for research and development.

About Artilium
Artilium is the leading developer of Microsoft-based carrier-grade software for mobile networks.  Artilium’s ARTA Mobile Services Platform is an open, highly extensible Next Generation Service Delivery Platform including an Intelligent Network built on Service Oriented Architecture principles and designed to enable rapid creation of new mobile applications. ARTA activates the coming wave of third-party application development and innovation.  By providing open and secure access to mobile network functionality and autonomous software processes, ARTA enables infinite possibilities for intelligent mashups which combine network capabilities of presence, mobility, location and telephony; with Web services including advertising, social networking and search. 

Based in Belgium with offices in the United Kingdom, Artilium is a publicly listed company on the London Stock Exchange (LSE/AIM: ARTA). The company was founded in 1995 and has completed more than 40 installations serving tens of millions of end-users in 11 countries. For More information: www.artilium.com

About Scottish Enterprise
Scottish Enterprise is Scotland’s main enterprise, innovation and investment agency and is focused on supporting business growth and developing a competitive business environment.  Working in partnership with industry, academia and the public sector, SE aims to play its part in delivering the Scottish Government’s new economic strategy to increase productivity in Scotland by helping businesses grow, encouraging greater innovation and creating the right conditions for companies to access property, markets and finance.

Further information can be found at www.scottish-enterprise.com.

NXTcomm08, Las Vegas, 16th June 2008 - Artilium, a leading European developer of Microsoft-based carrier-grade software for mobile network operators, unveils new mashup applications developed via the Microsoft Connected Services Sandbox, a development environment that facilitates the rapid creation and deployment of new services which combine Web 2.0 type services with traditional telecommunications offerings.

Artilium will showcase three applications created in the Sandbox at NXTcomm08 in Las Vegas, June 17-19, 2008 at the Microsoft booth #SL5916/SL5923. Featuring Artilium’s patented Mobile Presence functionality the applications are examples of the thousands of services that can be offered by mobile operators as paid services or part of subscriber or business customer packages. The Artilium NXTcomm08 demonstrations will feature:

• A child monitoring service that allows parents to check the location of their children and their status (ie., on phone, in a lesson, etc.); and make a one-click phone call from the computer desktop to their child or a designated contact within a particular location (ie., school, home).

• Real-time call control from the desktop so that when you receive a call on your mobile, landline or IP phone, a pop-up displays on your computer screen that features contact details including a photo designated in Microsoft Office Outlook contacts, and provides the user with options to ‘control’ the call such as sending it to voicemail, forwarding the call to an assistant, another number, or other options.

• A desktop-integrated location-based weather service that delivers dynamic 12-hour weather forecasts specific to the subscriber’s current location.

“Microsoft shares Artilium’s vision for the development of new services by combining the best of the Web world with the best of the telecom world. We see third-party application development powering a new wave of innovation, which in turn provides operators with a plethora of new revenue-generating services,” stated Steve Zimba, Managing Director of the Global Telecom Business at Microsoft Corp. “We’re excited to be showcasing Artilium’s applications created in the Microsoft Connected Services Sandbox.”

Artilium CEO Robert Marcus added, “Artilium has extended the Microsoft desktop presence experience, making it fully mobile, network-based and device agnostic to deliver continuous real-time location and state data that open an infinite variety of possibilities for mobile mashups that combine the ‘three C’s: content (including advertising), commerce, and community (social networks). We’re excited to work with Microsoft to enable network operator delivery of a new generation of services that securely exploit the convergence of Web and telecommunications networks.”

The applications showcased in the Microsoft booth are built using Artilium’s ARTA Mobile Services Platform, an open and modular Next Generation Service Delivery Platform and Intelligent Network built on Service Oriented Architecture principles and designed to enable the rapid creation of new mobile applications. ARTA provides open and secure mobile network access to third-party developers creating intelligent mash-ups that combine network capabilities of presence, mobility, location and telephony with Web services including advertising, social networking and search. Artilium’s patented Tri-cell Intelligent Location System is the only location technology that provides automatic continuous location data for unmodified mobile phones without the need for GPS or other specialist equipment.

Built entirely on Microsoft’s .NET Framework, ARTA runs on the Windows Server line of operating system using Microsoft SQL Server database technology and Microsoft Visual Studio as a rapid service creation environment for third-party developers. 
The Microsoft Connected Services Sandbox is a program that unites independent software vendors (ISVs), developers, systems integrators (SIs), network equipment providers and telecommunications service providers in developing and testing new communications services, and ultimately bringing these new services together. Through the Sandbox, participants can take their core network assets and combine them with technologies and applications from the Web 2.0 world. Through this initiative, Microsoft aims to build a solid partner ecosystem for the Telco 2.0 era, spurring the creation and commercialization of a range of innovative new services.

About Artilium

Artilium is the leading developer of Microsoft-based carrier-grade software for mobile networks. 

Artilium’s ARTA Mobile Services Platform is an open, highly extensible Next Generation Service Delivery Platform including an Intelligent Network built on Service Oriented Architecture principles and designed to enable rapid creation of new mobile applications.

ARTA activates the coming wave of third-party application development and innovation.  By providing open and secure access to mobile network functionality and autonomous software processes, ARTA enables infinite possibilities for intelligent mashups which combine network capabilities of presence, mobility, location and telephony; with Web services including advertising, social networking and search. 

Based in Belgium with offices in the United Kingdom, Artilium is a publicly listed company on the London Stock Exchange (LSE/AIM: ARTA). The company was founded in 1995 and has completed more than 40 installations serving tens of millions of end-users in 11 countries.

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For further information:
Jeff Fishburn
OnPR for Artilium
+1 (503) 802-4408
jefff@onpr.com

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Activates mobile Internet applications based on Microsoft .NET

The Hague, NL and Brussels, Belgium March 20, 2008 – Today, KPN Mobile International, a leading European provider of next-generation telecommunications services, and Artilium, a leading European developer of software for mobile network operators, announced their partnership to create new opportunities for user-generated applications on KPN’s mobile networks.

The software enabling this transformation is Artilium’s Real-Time Architecture (ARTA) for Connected Mobile Services, designed to facilitate rapid creation of new mobile applications, packaged as services. ARTA is designed and developed by Artilium on the Microsoft Platform.

The partnership includes a licensing agreement allowing KPN deployment of ARTA as a platform for next-generation converged services across its growing base of more than 27 million mobile subscribers in the Benelux, Germany and Spain.

KPN Mobile International Chief Executive Officer, Stan Miller said, “This agreement is a major boost for KPN’s strategy on MVNOs (Mobile Virtual Network Operators) in Europe. Artilium software allows KPN to surge to the forefront of mobile/Web innovation. We are able to open our network to developer communities worldwide to deliver an infinite range of differentiated services and an exciting new level of personalisation and interactivity for subscribers. In doing so, we begin to transform the very essence of our business, creating new service-centric business models across a broad value chain that includes developers, advertisers and our commercial partners.”

“Artilium unifies IP, PSTN, ISDN and GSM network communications and provides the framework that securely opens the mobile network to rapid application innovation,” said Artilium Chief Executive Officer Robert Marcus. “We are delighted to be partnering with KPN in this groundbreaking work that brings with it an unprecedented level of business model originality and value-chain diversity.”

Commenting on the agreement, Steve Zimba, Managing Director Global Telecom Business at Microsoft Corp. said:  “We are excited that KPN and Artilium have chosen the Microsoft platform to power their ecosystem of connected mobile services. We will be working closely together to help make this great vision a compelling reality for the millions of consumers who are eager to embrace rich, personalized and contextually aware mobile experiences.”

About KPN

KPN is a leading international telecommunications and ICT service provider, offering wireline and wireless telephony, internet and TV to consumers and end-to-end telecom and ICT services to business customers. The international KPN data and IP services are enabled through an extensive, high-capacity fibre-optic network in 22 European countries, plus worldwide connections to 180 countries. KPN’s subsidiary Getronics operates a global ICT services company with a market leading position in the Benelux, offering end-to-end solutions in infrastructure and network-related IT. In Germany and Belgium, KPN pursues a multi-brand strategy in its mobile operations and holds number three market positions through E-Plus and BASE. KPN provides wholesale network services to third parties and operates an efficient IP-based infrastructure with global scale in international wholesale through iBasis.
At December 31, 2007, KPN served over 35 million customers, of which 27 million in wireless services, 5.4 million in wireline voice, 2.4 million in broadband Internet and 0.5 million in TV. With 25,500 FTEs (43,531 FTEs including Getronics), KPN posted revenues of EUR 12.6bn in 2007, with an EBITDA of EUR 4.9bn. KPN was incorporated in 1989 and is listed on the Amsterdam, New York, London and Frankfurt stock exchanges. For more information, visit www.kpn.com/international

About Artilium

Artilium develops carrier-grade software that unifies communications and opens mobile networks to user-generated mobile Internet application development and innovation, enabling rapid creation of a virtually infinite ecosystem of autonomous software processes interoperating as services in an open yet structured and secure architecture.

Artilium’s ARTA Connected Mobile Services Framework is an open, modular and highly extensible Service-Oriented Architecture that includes a Service Creation Environment, a real-time Service Delivery Platform including an Intelligent Network, and a Mobile Presence Server that intelligently combines highly accurate, continuous real-time location and state awareness to enable a vast range of new mobile commerce, advertising and social networking services based on the company’s patented Tri-Cell Intelligent Location System (TILS).

Founded in 1995 and recognized for advanced and innovative engineering, Artilium has completed more than 40 installations serving tens of millions of end-users in 11 countries. Artilium plc is a publicly listed company with AIM on the London Stock Exchange (LSE/AIM: ARTA).  The company is based in Belgium. For more information, visit www.artilium.com

For further information:

KPN
KPN Press office
+31 70 446 63 00

Artilium (Europe)
info@artilium.com

Artilium (USA)
Jeff Fishburn
+1 (503 802-4408
jefff@onpr.com

London, UK and Barcelona, Spain – 11 February 2008 – Artilium plc (LSE/AIM: ARTA), a European leader in advanced telecommunications software is pleased to announce the acquisition of Trisent Communications, a specialist in Location-Based Services (LBS) technology that enables mobile network operators to deliver services to subscribing customers based on the geographic location of their mobile phone.

Trisent’s technology complements Artilium’s ARTA Service Delivery Platform to allow operators to rate, charge and deliver an array of intelligent differentiated services combining location, presence (Ie, availability), commerce and social networks, among other criteria.  Applications include resource tracking i.e. taxis, fleet scheduling; business directory, weather, traffic; and proximity-based notification i.e. targeted advertising, buddy list, profile matching (dating).

“Mobile presence is the most innovative revenue generating opportunity for network operators today.  By combining location with presence and status consumers can see the availability of the people they want to reach, mobile network operators can provide contextually aware services, and brands can better personalize mobile experiences,” said Robert Marcus, CEO of Artilium.  “Add commerce to the mix and the vision and monetization of location-based services is truly realized.”

According to research from Gartner Group, the total number of subscriptions to Location-Based Services in Western Europe, North America, Asia / Pacific and Japan is expected to grow from 7m in 2006 to 298m in 2011.* According to Strategy Analytics, in North America alone, end-user spending on location-aware mobile services is expected to grow from $110m end of 2006 to $2.2bn by end of 2011.**

Trisent currently has a licensing agreement with Max Telecom, a fixed and wireless telecommunications operator in Bulgaria.  The Trisent technology is being used for workforce management and fleet tracking at present and will expand to offer mobile customers location-aware services including personal security, lone worker protection and services industry employee deployment.

“In our initial roll-out of Trisent technology in the business-to-business market, we’ve realized a cost savings of up to 25 times compared with GPS fleet tracking equivalents,” stated Krassimir Stoitcheff, CEO of Max Telecom.  “We’re very pleased with the Trisent technology and have hugely satisfied customers using the technology.  We are excited about the opportunities for future services, revenues and growth ahead.”

“Although many players are in the location-based services space, Trisent’s technology is definitely unique in providing a low-cost software-only solution to determine continuous location.  Google’s My Location provides spot location presented on the phone as a map, whereas Trisent offers a sophisticated alternative with automatic continuous location,” said Professor Stephen McLaughlin, University of Edinburgh.

The Trisent technology, the Tri-Cell Intelligent Location System, offers real-time tracking service like GPS (Global Positioning System), but does not use satellites or require equipment to be installed on the network.  The technology works by using standard phone handsets and offers several advantages over GPS, including significant cost savings, lower battery requirements, increased indoor coverage (an advantage for social networking) and ‘always on’ status (GPS can be turned off). 

Based in Dunfermline, Scotland, Trisent was founded by Gordon Povey PhD, inventor of the Tri-Cell Intelligent Location System.  Previously, Dr. Povey was a founder and managing director of Elektrobit (UK) Ltd., a subsidiary of Elektrobit Corporation based in Finland.  There are currently two patents filed for the Trisent technology. 

About Artilium:
Artilium develops software in the heart of the telecoms network. ARTA, the company’s IMS-compliant service delivery platform, first converges and then intelligently controls networks to enable fast, efficient deployment and monetization of innovative, differentiated mobile unified communications solutions for operators.

Founded in 1995 and recognised for its engineering talent and unique combination of IT and telecom expertise, Artilium has completed more than 40 installations serving tens of millions of end-users in 11 countries.  The company is a Microsoft Gold-Certified Partner.  Artilium plc is a publicly listed company on AIM: the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange (LSE/AIM: ARTA). For more information, please visit: www.artilium.com

About Trisent
Trisent Communications Limited creates software products that enable mobile network operators to deliver services to subscribing customers based on the geographic location of their mobile phone or device connected to the cellular network.

Trisent has created unique software technology that provides automatic continuous location monitoring and requires no specialist equipment or modifications to the mobile phone or the network equipment. The Tri-Cell Intelligent Location System offers a low-cost alternative to satellite GPS and creates a platform on which mobile network operators can provide a range of location-aware services to business customers and consumers. The company obtained investment capital from Sigma Technology Group plc to bring the product to market.

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Contact:

Artilium at Mobile World Congress: with Dialogic on Level 1 of Hall 2 - 2.1 B81; and in the Mobile Innovation Zone in Hall 7, Stand IZ23. 

info@artilium.com
www.artilium.com

*Gartner Group Dataquest Insight: Location- Based Services Subscriber and Revenue Forecast, 2006-2011 29 January 2008

** Strategy Analytics:  North America Consumer Location Based Services (LBS) Forecast.  3 August 2007

London, UK February 6, 2008 – Artilium plc (LSE/AIM: ARTA), a European leader in advanced telecommunications software will be showcasing new mobile unified communications solutions including mobile click2dial which drives mobile calls from the Internet/desktop; and enhanced mobile presence, which is location-aware and offers status and connectivity information.

Artilium will be featured in two locations at Mobile World Congress: with Dialogic on Level 1 of Hall 2 - 2.1 B81; and in the Mobile Innovation Zone in Hall 7, Stand IZ23.

Artilium will feature a range of solutions at Mobile World Congress.

• ARTA Service Delivery Platform: a modular, flexible framework which delivers real-time control and intelligence to manage communications across mobile, fixed, IP and ATM networks. It enables operators to improve margins, reduce revenue-leakage and launch differentiated services.

• Mobile click2dial: drive up minutes by pushing online calls to mobile phones.

• Mobile presence: an enhanced presence solution that enables operators to deliver customized and contextually aware mobility services.

• Intelligent real-time routing: drive up margins by as much as 35% with real-time least cost routing and dynamic call control.

• MVNO: Artilium’s multi-tenancy platform offers independent real-time controls, automated subscriber processes and intelligent cross-network management.

“Over the past decade, Artilium has innovated at the leading edge of convergence to enable operators to boost revenues, reduce costs and deliver new services,” said Robert Marcus, CEO of Artilium.  “At Mobile World Congress, Artilium continues to push the boundaries of wireless/wireline convergence with some exciting offerings which put the power of mobile unified communications into the hands of operators.”

About Artilium

Artilium develops software in the heart of the telecoms network. ARTA, the company’s IMS-compliant service delivery platform first converges and then intelligently controls networks to enable fast, efficient deployment and monetization of innovative, differentiated mobile unified communications solutions for operators.

Founded in 1995 and recognized for engineering talent and innovative solutions which unify fixed, mobile and IP networks, Artilium has completed more than 40 installations serving tens of millions of end-users in 11 countries. The company is also a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner.