PALO ALTO, CA -(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 4th, 2007--Thin Multimedia, Inc. (TMI), a leading developer and provider of mobile multimedia solutions, and Tata Teleservices Limited (TTSL), India's fastest growing mobile service provider, today announced that they entered into an agreement to implement TMI's thinMME Mobile Multimedia Solution on Tata Teleservices network in India. Tata Teleservices will license TMI's thinMME (Mobile Multimedia Engine) to enable multimedia playback of content on its handsets. thinMME allows users to access multimedia content from Internet and play it back on their handset in real-time. Users will also be able to view multimedia content from their handsets. thinMME can be easily integrated into cell phones, smart phones, PDAs, and other portable devices. thinMME operates on variety of platforms such as Brew, Symbian, WIPI, Java, and Linux. Commenting on the commercial agreement with Thin Multimedia, Mr. Pankaj Sethi, President - Value Added Services, Tata Teleservies said, "As India evolves from a pure voice to data driven market, we wanted to take the lead to be the first service provider to offer exciting mobile media services which are not handset dependent. The license with TMI, the world's leading provider of mobile multimedia solutions, would enable us to offer rich and cutting edge multimedia contents on any handset at affordable prices. TMI's full range of compression/decompression (codec) software offers superior compression ratio enabling consumers to enjoy multimedia content without worrying about the battery drainage." Tata Teleservices is India's fastest growing telecom service provider with over 16 million subscribers across India, offering a bouquet of telephony services which includes Mobile services, Wireless Desktop Phones, Public Booth Telephony and Wireline services. Having pioneered the CDMA 3G1x technology platform in India, Tata has established a robust and reliable 3G ready telecom infrastructure that ensures quality in its services. The company, which heralded convergence technologies in the Indian telecom sector, is the market leader in the fixed wireless telephony market with a total customer base of over 4.3 million. "We are delighted to add our second carrier customer in India with this agreement with Tata Teleservices. We have been commercially serving the Indian mobile market since 2002 with Reliance Infocomm, and are looking forward to working with Tata Teleservices to make a major impact in the rapidly growing market in India," said David Kim, Senior Vice President of TMI.
About Thin Multimedia, Inc.Thin Multimedia, Inc. (TMI) is the leading mobile multimedia software solutions provider to wireless carriers, chipset and handset manufacturers, and content providers. Eleven wireless carriers have commercially deployed TMI solutions for mobile multimedia. TMI has also provided solutions to some of the most prestigious content providers in the world, and to Tier 1 handset and chipset manufacturers around the globe.
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Tata Teleservices
Tata Teleservices is one of India's leading private telecom service providers. The company offers integrated telecom solutions to its customers under the Tata Indicom brand, and uses the latest CDMA 3G1X technology for its wireless network. Tata Teleservices operates in 3400 towns across 20 circles i.e. Andhra Pradesh, Chennai, Gujarat, Karnataka, New Delhi, Maharashtra, Mumbai, Tamil Nadu, Orissa, Bihar, Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh (E), Uttar Pradesh (W), Kolkata, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal. The company has a customer base of over 16 million.