Press Release:
Swedish Translation
Nordisk Mobiltelefon Selects Networks In Motion to Provide Navigation and Group Finder Services
ALISO VIEJO, Calif., Oct. 8, 2007
Networks In Motion (NIM), the award-winning wireless navigation and location-based services (LBS) company, today announced an agreement with Nordisk Mobiltelefon AB (NMT), a mobile communications operator licensed in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Poland and Ireland, to provide mobile phone navigation and group finder services.
Utilizing NIM’s LBS technology on GPS-enabled mobile phones, Nordisk will offer NMT Navigator, which includes turn-by-turn, voice-prompted directions as well as local search of millions of points of interest and detailed color maps, and NMT Team Finder, which tracks friends, workforce, children or family, to its customers in Q1 2008.
"We chose Networks In Motion because of its proven success in the U.S. and because they provide unique functionality, better maps and more effective user-interfaces than its competitors," said Johan Lodenius, co-founder of Nordisk Mobiltelefon AB. "By providing NIM’s applications to our consumer and enterprise customers, we’re able to offer unique applications for finding people or places, with extremely high availability, through our outstanding network coverage and high precision assisted GPS service."
"As the leading provider of mobile phone navigation services to major North American wireless carriers, with the largest number of paid subscribers, Networks In Motion is now bringing its successful products and strategies to European consumers through Nordisk," said Doug Antone, president and CEO of Networks In Motion. "Mobile phone navigation has quickly acquired more than three million subscribers in the U.S. and is competing with personal navigation devices due to its convenience and price point, and we believe the same adoption rate is possible in Europe."
According to a recent research report by Berg Insight, "Mobile Maps and Navigation," the number of mobile subscribers accessing maps and downloading routes using their mobile handsets in Europe and the U.S. is expected to grow from four million users in 2007 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 60.8 percent to reach 43 million users in 2012.
Andre Malm, telecom analyst, Berg Insight says, "Record shipments of PND devices in Europe and the U.S. have introduced the benefits of GPS for motorists. Now the major players in the mobile industry are in hot pursuit of delivering the same experience for pedestrians, commuters and travelers on the handset display."
About NMT
Nordisk Mobiltelefon is a wireless communications operator providing private- and business users with advanced mobile services over leading, nationwide, coverage 3G networks. The company is currently offering Mobile Broadband services in Norway, Sweden and Denmark and holds licenses also in Poland and Ireland. NMT uses leading 3G technology, cdma2000 1xEV-DO, in the 450MHz band combined with high performance assisted GPS, Push-To-Talk and other advanced features.
About Networks In Motion
Networks In Motion is an award-winning wireless navigation and local search company, with products on all major wireless carriers, making NIM’s NAVBuilder platform the most widely used mobile phone navigation service in the U.S. Founded in 2000, the company is privately held and headquartered in Aliso Viejo, Calif., with international offices in Sweden and Spain. More information is available at http://www.networksinmotion.com.
Contact:
Amy Johnsonbaugh or Mike Kilroy
Maples Communications, Inc.
949-855-3555
ajohnsonbaugh@maples.com
mkilroy@maples.com
Steve Andler
Networks In Motion, Inc.
949-453-3807
sandler@networksinmotion.com

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