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Disney Mobile Content Launches on i-mode in Netherlands.


Business/Entertainment Editors

NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 22, 2003

KPN KPN Koninklijke PTT Nederland (Royal Dutch Telecom)
KPN Konfederacja Polski Niepodleglej (Polish conservative party) 
 and the Walt Disney Internet Group The Walt Disney Internet Group (WDIG) oversees several websites owned by The Walt Disney Company and its subsidiaries. [1] The division's Disney Online unit operates disney.  (WDIG WDIG Walt Disney Internet Group
WDIG Walt Disney Imagineering Glendale (California) 
) have introduced Disney Mobile Disney Mobile is a Mobile Virtual Network Operator in the United States which launched in June of 2006, and will cease operating on December 31, 2007. It operates on Sprint's CDMA network. Disney Mobile is owned by The Walt Disney Company, which had marketed to family subscribers.  content on KPN's i-mode(TM) service in the Netherlands. i-mode customers can now personalize their i-mode phones with Disney-themed wallpapers and ringtones based on classic and contemporary Disney characters and popular Disney animated films. The service also lets Disney fans keep up to date with the latest Disney news and promotions through their i-mode handsets with a free mobile Disney Fan Magazine.

KPN offers four different subscription Disney Mobile services for its i-Mode users. "Disney's Sound Studio" contains a wide and constantly updated range of popular Disney ringtones, with two different levels of service available. The "Disney Parade" service consists of unlimited downloads of wallpapers, ranging from classic favorites, such as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, to characters from modern hits such as "The Lion King" and "Beauty and the Beast Beauty and the Beast is a traditional fairy tale (type 425C -- search for a lost husband -- in the Aarne-Thompson classification). The first published version of the fairy tale was a meandering rendition by Madame Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, published in ." Finally, the "Disney/Pixar" service combines ringtones and images from popular Disney/Pixar films such as "Toy Story," "Monsters, Inc." and the latest record-breaking release "Finding Nemo."

"Disney is one of the absolute world leaders in providing attractive, high-quality family entertainment services. i-mode's real strength is delivering easy, comfortable access to attractive top-quality content. Our cooperation with Disney once again confirms i-mode as the platform for offering customers advanced services over the mobile phone," said Mark de Jong, Executive Vice President Corporate Development for KPN's mobile division.

Attila Gazdag, Vice-President and Managing Director WDIG Europe, added, "We are glad to further extend our i-mode distribution footprint in Europe. Disney on i-mode has been a considerable success in Japan and France, and we look forward to working with KPN to replicate this in the Netherlands."

i-mode and the i-mode logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of NTT DoCoMo, Inc. in Japan and other countries.

About Walt Disney Internet Group

Walt Disney Internet Group (WDIG) provides strategic leadership and operational management for The Walt Disney Company's (NYSE NYSE

See: New York Stock Exchange
:DIS) Internet properties including category leaders Disney.com, ESPN.com and ABCNEWS.com. A market leader in developing and distributing entertainment and informational content to new platforms, WDIG is committed to creating and delivering products for broadband distribution including: ABC News On Demand, a subscription video news service that offers the Internet's first 24-hour, live Internet-only news channel and top ABC News programs for on demand viewing; Disney Connection; and WDIG Motion, a proprietary video technology for broadband users. Through relationships with some of the world's largest wireless carriers, WDIG distributes content and services to wireless users under the Disney, ESPN ESPN Entertainment and Sports Programming Network  and ABC ABC
 in full American Broadcasting Co.

Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928.
 brands. Additionally, WDIG has led the way in developing interactive content for televised programming through its Enhanced TV service. Steve Wadsworth is president of WDIG, which is headquartered in North Hollywood and has operations in Seattle, New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
, Orlando, Tokyo and London.

About KPN

KPN is a telecommunications company offering a wide range of high quality and innovative telecommunications services for both the private and business market. Its core business activities are fixed network services in the Netherlands, mobile communications in the Netherlands Netherlands Telephone
Telephones - main lines in use: 8.000.000 (2007)

Telephones - mobile cellular subscribers: 17.200.000 (2007)

Telephone system: general assessment: highly developed and well maintained
, Germany (E-Plus) and Belgium (BASE) and IP/Data services. At the end of September 2003, KPN had 7.7 million fixed line customers, 14.2 million mobile customers and 1.5 million Internet-customers.
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