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TeleNav Drives Mobile GPS Navigation Market at CTIA; First Company to Launch a GPS Navigation System on Mobile Phones in the U.S. Provides Insight into What It Takes to Succeed with Location-Based Services.


SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- TeleNav Inc., the leading provider of wireless location-based services (LBS (Location-Based Services) See mobile positioning. ), will showcase its new TeleNav GPS Navigator(TM) 5.0 wireless navigation service at CTIA (1) See CompTIA.

(2) (Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association, Washington, DC, www.ctia.org, www.wow-com.com) A membership organization founded in 1984 that is involved with regulatory and public affairs issues in the wireless industry.
 Wireless I.T. and Entertainment, September 12-14, 2006, at the Los Angeles Convention Center The Los Angeles Convention Center (abbreviated LACC) is a convention center in downtown Los Angeles. The LACC hosts annual events such as the Greater Los Angeles Auto Show, and was best known to video games fans as host to E3 until its cessation in 2006. . E[acute accent]TeleNav GPS Navigator 5.0 is the first GPS application on mobile phones that provides U.S. consumers with full-color, three dimensional (3D) moving maps, creating a more realistic and easy-to-follow visual navigation experience. E[acute accent]TeleNav's president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Dr. H.P. Jin, will be a featured panelist in a session entitled "Location Based Services in Enterprise." The panel will be from 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, September 12, in room 402 of the Convention Center. E[acute accent]Hassan Wahla, TeleNav's senior director of business development, will speak on a panel entitled "Security vs. Privacy" at NAVTEQ's LBS Developer Conference, which runs in conjunction with CTIA. The panel will be from 1:00-1:45 p.m. on Monday, September 11, also at the Los Angeles Convention Center. E[acute accent]TeleNav will also exhibit at the Pepcom Mobile Focus event on September 12 from 7:00-10:00 p.m. at the Westin Bonaventure hotel The Westin Bonaventure Hotel is the largest hotel in Los Angeles, California, USA. It is 367 feet (112 meters) tall and has 35 floors. It was completed in 1977. The top floor has a revolving restaurant and observation level.  in Los Angeles. E[acute accent]TeleNav representatives will be available for questions or to show demonstrations of TeleNav products at the following partner booths on the Exhibit Floor: Palm (Booth #1001), Research in Motion (RIM) (Booth #261) and NAVTEQ (Booth #618). E[acute accent]TeleNav GPS Navigator, originally launched in 2003, was the first GPS navigation system on mobile phones in the U.S. The service starts at just $9.99 per month for unlimited use, and TeleNav GPS Navigator customers are not charged cellular airtime minutes for using the service.

E[acute accent]About TeleNav Inc.

E[acute accent]TeleNav Inc. is a global leader in wireless location-based services (LBS), including GPS navigation, Mobile Resource Management (MRM), asset GPS tracking (AVL) and local search. The company's flagship product, TeleNav GPS Navigator(TM), is the first mobile phone-based GPS navigation service that is comparable to in-car systems found in luxury vehicles, but offers a superior experience with functionality such as automatically updated maps and business locations, moving maps, speech recognition, Wi-Fi Hotspot finder, lowest price fuel finder and more. E[acute accent]TeleNav offers its services internationally through leading wireless carriers, including Sprint Nextel, Boost Mobile, Vivo Brazil and China Mobile. TeleNav products work on nearly all wireless networks including iDEN, CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) A method for transmitting simultaneous signals over a shared portion of the spectrum. The foremost application of CDMA is the digital cellular phone technology from QUALCOMM that operates in the 800 MHz band and 1.9 GHz PCS band. , EV-DO (EVolution-Data Only) A 3G high-speed digital data service provided by cellular carriers worldwide that use the CDMA technology, including Verizon and Sprint in the U.S. EV-DO works on EV-DO cellphones as well as laptops and portable devices that have EV-DO modems. , GSM, GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) The first high-speed digital data service provided by cellular carriers that used the GSM technology. GPRS added a packet-switched channel to GSM, which uses dedicated, circuit-switched channels for voice conversations.  and EDGE. TeleNav partners include Research in Motion (RIM), Motorola, Samsung, Sanyo, LG, Palm, Audiovox, Nokia, NAVTEQ, TeleAtlas, deCarta, and Qualcomm. E[acute accent]For more information on TeleNav's portfolio of wireless location-based services please visit www.telenav.com.
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