Musiwave Licenses Alcatel's Mobile Solutions to Enhance Its Music Streaming Capabilities

Musiwave Licenses Alcatel's Mobile Solutions to Enhance Its Music Streaming Capabilities

Musiwave to Deploy Alcatel's pvServer(TM) for Mobile Music Streaming and Download

PARIS, Oct. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Alcatel (NYSE: ALA; Paris: CGEP.PA) and Musiwave, a provider of turnkey music entertainment services, applications and content to mobile and broadband operators, mobile handset makers and media companies, today announce that Musiwave will now support Alcatel's PacketVideo Network Solutions for its mobile music offerings. Under the terms of the contract, Alcatel's pvServer(TM) can be deployed as part of an end-to-end mobile music service provided by Musiwave or to develop new products with specific features. The offering gives Musiwave more flexibility with regards to carrier customer's network architecture, and will be available as part of an integrated music offering via both mobile and fixed line Internet.

"We added Alcatel's solution as one we can support because it offers advanced technology combined with carrier-class reliability and scalability," said Guillaume Decugis, COO of Musiwave. "We look forward to working with Alcatel to ensure that our carrier customers have a mobile music service that continues to deliver increased functionality and features."

"The combination of Alcatel's industry leading multimedia server technology with Musiwave's attractive, powerful and easy-to-use music packaging and delivery services will provide Musiwave's mobile customers with the best in mobile music," said Matt West, vice president business development, Alcatel mobile media activities.

Alcatel's pvServer(TM) is the industry's leading 3GPP standard compliant multimedia server, providing streaming, downloading and progressive streaming services to wireless devices. pvServer(TM) is a scalable, carrier class solution with low total cost of ownership and has a number of unique patented technology enhancements that provide the best possible consumer experience while simultaneously delivering real business benefits.

About Musiwave

A provider of mobile music entertainment services, Musiwave distributes its services in 25 countries through 35 mobile telecommunications operators and handset manufacturers. The added value of Musiwave's offer relies on the quality of content cleared of rights, state-of-the-art mobile technology and marketing and content management expertise. For more corporate information, please visit http://www.musiwave.net/ .

About Alcatel

Alcatel provides communications solutions to telecommunication carriers, Internet service providers and enterprises for delivery of voice, data and video applications to their customers or employees. Alcatel brings its leading position in fixed and mobile broadband networks, applications and services, to help its partners and customers build a user-centric broadband world. With sales of EURO 12.3 billion and 56,000 employees in 2004, Alcatel operates in more than 130 countries. For more information, visit Alcatel on the Internet: http://www.alcatel.com/

Source: Alcatel

CONTACT: Lucie-Anne Radimsky of Ballou PR, +33-0-6-20-51-63-04, or lucieanne@balloupr.com , for Musiwave; or press, Charlie Guyer, +1-978-468-0153, or charlie.guyer@alcatel.com , or investor relations, Pascal Bantegnie, +33-0-1-40-76-52-20, or pascal.bantegnie@alcatel.com , or Nicolas Leyssieux, +33-0-1-40-76-37-32, or nicolas.leyssieux@alcatel.com , or Maria Alcon, +33-0-1-40-76-15-17, or maria.alcon@alcatel.com , or Charlotte Laurent-Ottomane, +1-703-668-3571, or charlotte.laurent-ottomane@alcatel.com , all of Alcatel

Web site: http://www.alcatel.com/ http://www.musiwave.net/

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