Aycell chooses 3 Telenity platforms for messaging growth

Monroe, CT and Ankara, Turkey, January 19, 2004 - Telenity, a leading IP-based platform provider, today announced that Aycell, the leading GSM 1800 wireless operator in Turkey, has chosen three Telenity platforms to provide enhanced messaging and location services to its rapidly growing customer base.

The three platforms include Telenity's Mobile Service Platform, which provides for evolution to next generation enhanced services, including unified multimedia, and Telenity's Short Messaging Service Center, integrated with Telenity's Bulk SMS Delivery Platform, which provides a rich portfolio of enhanced messaging solutions, including email2SMS and a unique Web based Customer Interface. Aycell's new service offerings include MO/MT messaging services which enable enterprise users to securely send SMS messages through the Web using Telenity's email2SMS solution

“Our growth requires fast, robust and scalable messaging platforms with value-added applications that increase enterprise user productivity as well as enrich the user experience of all subscribers” says (Dr. Tayfun Çataltepe, Vice President) at Aycell.  “Telenity's solution provides a powerful graphical service creation environment and standards based interfaces which ensure that we can quickly create original voice-enhanced data services for national and international users, and do so across both pre- and post-paid users.”

“This is an exciting period in wireless as the number of people carrying a mobile phone or using messaging nears half the population of Turkey,” says Serif Beykoz, General Manager at Telenity Europe.  “We are very pleased to have been chosen to help further expand Aycell's applications and services.”

Telenity's SMSC Platform lets wireless providers take full advantage of worldwide subscriber demand for more versatile access to e-mail and task-specific content that resides on corporate intranets and the public internet. The SMSC comes with ready to deploy push-pull services such as ring tone and logo download, and fully open interfaces that make it easy for customers to look at their wireless handsets as information access devices. Voice-enhanced SMS applications with graphical service creation environment can be very quickly and cost-effectively achieved.

Telenity's Service Creation Environment compresses the entire process of service creation—from development to test and roll out—to a matter of days or weeks rather than months. Telenity's Mobile Service Platform also provides for evolution to next generation enhanced services, including unified multimedia messaging and located based services.

About Telenity
Telenity, a privately-held company, is the wireless industry's IP-based service platform performance leader.  Telenity provides a portfolio of open, integrated and interoperable multimedia messaging and locations services enhanced by content management and effortless service creation capabilities.  To learn more abut Telenity, visit us online as www.telenity.com

About Aycell
Aycell, headquartered in Ankara, is the fourth and the youngest GSM operator in Turkey, which also the fastest growing GSM operator in 2003. Aycell's innovative campaigns that are focused on the needs and profiles of the corporations and institutions have been a major driver of its stellar growth achieved in 2003. Aycell's goal is to continue to be the fastest growing, innovative and the most trusted operator for its subscribers. 
To learn more about Aycell, visit www.aycell.com.tr