Orange UK Launches Prepaid GPRS Service Using Telcordia Technologies Solution.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

CANNES, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 18, 2003

Orange UK has launched its pay as you go service for GPRS using the Telcordia Technologies, Inc. solution for flexible service creation and account management and rating engine capabilities.

The solution is based on the Telcordia ISCP(R) System, a flexible, scalable platform that allows operators to provide and support a number of 2G, 2.5G and 3G services.

"Orange, as the largest mobile operator in the UK, continues its record of innovation with another first. We are very pleased to offer our pay as you go customers advanced mobile data services and capabilities" said Dominic O'Neill, Manager, Intelligent Network Service Design, Orange UK. "Services are the key to growth and profitability for Orange. The Telcordia system continues to provide service creation flexibility with open interfaces to meet our rapidly changing market requirements. Having a flexible service creation environment will help us rapidly develop new advanced data and multimedia services and deliver them in a more personalised and accessible manner to our subscribers."

Orange selected the Telcordia IN platform for its flexible service creation environment, allowing it or its partners to create and deliver advanced 2.5G services. The Telcordia system supports CAMEL Phase 3 and Open Service Access (OSA) and Parlay specifications, as well as many other standard industry interfaces.

Specifically, CAMEL Phase 3 will allow mobile operators to offer not only support for pay as you go customers for both voice and data, but it also provides greater support for customers using international Virtual Private Networks.

"Telcordia mobility solutions deliver the service creation and service execution environments needed to rapidly develop, integrate and harness the full potential of cooperative intelligent networking," said Graham Cobb, Director, IN Business Development, Telcordia. "We developed the concepts behind intelligent networking and we bring our understanding of the impact of service value chains to provide robust mobility solutions that meet the needs of leading-edge mobility service providers such as Orange UK."

Telcordia platforms uphold the company's tradition of multi-vendor, multi-technology support and open interfaces, facilitating the emergence of new efficiencies and innovations. Telcordia advanced mobility platforms provide Prepaid Services, Number Portability Services, Location-based Services, Freephone Premium Rate, Virtual Private Network, Fixed/Mobile Convergence, Personal Number, Unified Messaging and Interconnection Services.

About Orange

At the end of December 2002, Orange UK had over 13.3 million active customers, more than any other UK network, making it the UK's number one.

The fifth annual J.D. Power and Associates UK Mobile Customer Satisfaction Study published in May 2002 showed that Orange ranks as the number one telephone service for customer satisfaction in the contract sector in the UK. In September 2002 Orange UK won the Mobile Choice consumer award for Best Network; Mobile Choice said 'Orange received glowing accolades for every aspect of its service - coverage , reliability, customer service and tariffs.'

Orange UK provides high quality coverage to 99% of the UK population, and offers roaming to pay monthly customers on 286 networks in 126 countries and to pay as you go customers on 24 networks in 19 countries..

Orange, wirefree and any other Orange product or service referred to in this release are trademarks of Orange.

Information about Orange can be found on the Orange website at www.orange.co.uk and media information can be found at www.orange.com

For further information, call the Orange media centre on 020 7984 2000

About Telcordia

Telcordia Technologies, Inc., an SAIC company, is the world's largest provider of operations support systems, network software and consulting and engineering services to the telecommunications industry. Telcordia (www.telcordia.com) is headquartered in Morristown, New Jersey with offices throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Central and South America.

Telcordia Technologies is a wholly owned subsidiary of SAIC. Statements in this announcement other than historical data and information constitute forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. A number of factors could cause our actual results, performance, achievements or industry results to be very different from the results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Some of these factors include, but are not limited to, the risk factors set forth in SAIC's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the period ended January 31, 2002 and such other filings that the Company makes with the SEC from time to time. Due to such uncertainties and risks, readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof.