Mobile Internet Solution From Cap Gemini Telecommunications Offers Carriers Rapid Deployment of Service in Competitive Wireless Environment.

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NEW ORLEANS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 28, 2000

Cap Gemini Telecommunications today announced a service offering designed to help communication providers bring mobile Internet services to market more quickly and efficiently.

The offering -- Mobile Internet Launch -- is part of New Service Launch, one of a suite of solutions the company offers that address core strategic approaches carriers are adopting to effectively compete in the Networked Economy.

The New Service Launch offering targets providers at all stages of their life cycle, including new telecom companies, established communications providers seeking to launch new service lines, and service providers that want to bundle products and services. The Mobile Internet Launch solution, in particular, offers strategy development, launch management and IT integration services to wireless carriers entering the mobile data arena. The strategy and business process elements are provided in conjunction with Gemini Consulting, the business transformation arm of Cap Gemini.

"Recently, we are seeing both providers and developers put resources behind mobile Internet products and services in response to end-user demand," said Paul Bishop, Market Development Director of Cap Gemini Telecommunications. "The dramatic growth in the number of wireless subscribers is a stark contrast to carrier revenue from voice usage, which is under pressure. Providing Internet content, applications and e-commerce -- tailored to the mobile environment -- offers an opportunity for wireless carriers to stay competitive."

In offering services for Mobile Internet Launch, Cap Gemini Telecommunications leverages its substantial expertise in the mobile communications and Internet marketplaces, which it has developed from working with top telecommunications companies around the globe. Among the services offered are development of a mobile data strategy and business case, enhancement of web sites into a WAP-enabled portals, high speed packet data service design and launch, development of prototype WAP-based applications, integration of WAP servers, and others.

"Europe is still ahead of the United States in wireless communications," said Bishop. "Cap Gemini Telecommunications builds upon best practices developed with carriers in Europe, North America and Asia combined with leading-edge technology to implement successful and profitable wireless Internet strategies."

The announcement follows key alliances that Cap Gemini Telecommunications established with pioneers in the technology sector. In January, the company began a partnership with Oracle to jointly deliver integrated mobile portals based on Oracle Portal-to-Go, software that makes web content and applications simultaneously available on smart phones, PDAs and other devices.

Cap Gemini Telecommunications also partners with Portal Software to provide customer management and billing solutions for the Internet and next generation networks, and to integrate these into the wireless environment. Experts expect that high-speed wireless data services will drive many of the pricing and revenue-sharing models now taking shape in the Internet arena into the wireless world -- a challenge for existing wireless billing systems.

"Cap Gemini Telecommunications is the only systems integrator to combine its understanding of wireless processes and systems with Internet expertise to bring a complete wireless Internet solution," said Bishop.

New Service Launch is one of six solution sets that Cap Gemini Telecommunications offers North American telecommunications companies. The others include Customer Relationship Management, E-business, E-connection, Next Generation Network Launch and Operations Optimization.

About Cap Gemini

Cap Gemini Telecommunications, a worldwide consultancy focused exclusively on telecommunications, media, and the Internet, offers business transformation and IT services for success in the Networked Economy. An organization of more than 4,000 dedicated professionals provides convergent integration -- a balanced mix of business consulting tightly coupled with technology implementation -- that enables communications service providers to maximize market responsiveness, enhance service delivery, and strengthen profit margins. The firm has acted as subject matter experts on communications issues for a variety of governmental and standards bodies, including the U.S. Department of Justice.

Cap Gemini America, Inc. is an information technology and management consulting services leader with 4,500 employees at 35 locations in the United States and 1998 revenues of $623 million. Cap Gemini America offers full life-cycle services based on industry-specific expertise in the areas of applications management, enterprise resource planning, Enterprise Effectiveness(SM), customer relationship management, Year 2000, E-commerce and management consulting through its Gemini Consulting division. It is part of the $4.4 billion Cap Gemini Group -- a global leader and Europe's largest IT services and business consulting organization that was recently named "European Company of the Year" by the European Business Press Federation. Cap Gemini's 40,000 employees in 20 countries design and deliver strategic change through ideas, people, and technology. Visit Cap Gemini America on the Internet at www.usa.capgemini.com.

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