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Telenor Satellite Services Unveils New, Optimized 'E-Mail Advanced'.


Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

OSLO, Norway & ROCKVILLE, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 17, 2003

Transmission-Efficient Service Reduces the Costs of Remote E-Mail Communications for Maritime and Land Mobile Users By Up to 80 Percent

Free E-Mail See Internet e-mail service.  Advanced Software Available On Telenor Satellite Services Web Site

Telenor Satellite Services today unveiled E-Mail Advanced, a new e-mail communications service - optimized to reduce costs and improve transmission efficiency.

Telenor E-Mail Advanced reduces user e-mail costs by up to 80 percent and features full duplex (Computers) arranged so that the information may be transmitted in both directions simultaneously; - of communications channels between computers; contrasted with half duplex(a).  communications enabling users to send and receive e-mails simultaneously, increasing communications efficiency while reducing airtime costs. Also new, an automatic mailbag compression that cuts transmission costs by reducing the size and time needed to send messages. The service also features a crash recovery program capable of resuming full duplex transmission if a connection is lost or broken mid-session. Telenor's E-Mail Advanced Hub also scans all incoming e-mails for viruses. The benefit of all these features is improved transmission and efficiency and reduced costs.

This new remote e-mail service works with Telenor's Inmarsat A, B, M, Mini-M, Fleet and GAN technologies and serves maritime and land mobile users.

"E-Mail Advanced expands and significantly enhances Telenor's e-mail offering for customers. E-mail communications are an important part of business and everyday life for our customers located all over the world," said Will Colston, director of product management for Telenor Satellite Services. "We have also made the E-Mail Advanced software available from our Web site or by CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc.
CD-ROM
 in full compact disc read-only memory

Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser).
, making it easy and convenient for users to download."

Telenor offers software for the E-Mail Advanced service available for all Windows platforms, provided Microsoft Outlook is installed as e-mail software. The software has pre-installed drivers and dialing strings for most Inmarsat terminals.

There are no monthly fees or annual service charges required, other than standard airtime charges, for customers who use this new e-mail service. Telenor's E-Mail Advanced is suitable for most Inmarsat mobile users, including maritime and land-based customers, and supports 56 and 64kbps high-speed data transmissions and ISDN ISDN
 in full Integrated Services Digital Network

Digital telecommunications network that operates over standard copper telephone wires or other media.
 for increased throughput with shorter communication times.

Users can find more information and sign up for E-Mail Advanced through authorized Telenor Service Providers and Partners or by going to the Telenor Web site at www.telenor.com/satellite and clicking on the Products and Services section.

About Telenor:

Headquartered in Oslo, Norway, Telenor is an international provider of high quality telecommunications, data and media communication services. Telenor is one of Norway's largest companies with 2002 revenues of approximately NOK NOK

In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Norwegian Krone.

Notes:
The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion.
 48.8 billion (approximately U.S. $7 billion) and a workforce of 22,100 located in Norway and abroad. Telenor is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange Oslo Stock Exchange

An exchange founded in 1819 and trading stocks, bonds, and stock options that is considered the options market of Norway.
 (TEL TEL Telephone
TEL Telegram
TEL Telugu (langauge)
TEL Terrorist Exclusion List
TEL Technology-Enhanced Learning
TEL Transporter-Erector-Launcher
TEL Tetra-Ethyl Lead
TEL Team Deutsche Telekom
) and the NASDAQ NASDAQ
 in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations

U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on
 in 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
 (TELN).

Telenor Satellite Services is the world's preferred provider of global communications via satellite for customers on land, at sea, and in flight. Telenor delivers high-speed data, voice and video communications and offers an innovative portfolio of value-added services including, prepaid calling solutions, easy Internet access with e-mail and direct calling to Inmarsat terminals. Telenor also offers The Source(TM), a web-based account management system available exclusively to Telenor Service Providers. Telenor Satellite Services owns and operates a global network of land earth stations located at Eik (Norway) and Southbury (Connecticut) and Santa Paula, California Santa Paula is a city within Ventura County, California, United States. The population was 28,598 at the 2000 census. It has been dubbed the "Citrus Capital of the World." As the initial headquarters of the company that became Unocal, it was one of the early centers of , in the United States, and uses the satellite systems of Inmarsat, Intelsat, and Iridium iridium (ĭrĭd`ēəm), metallic chemical element; symbol Ir; at. no. 77; at. wt. 192.22; m.p. about 2,410°C;; b.p. about 4,130°C;; sp. gr. 22.55 at 20°C;; valence +3 or +4.  for its services. Telenor is the largest single shareholder (15 percent) of Inmarsat Ventures plc. For more information look us up on the Web at www.telenor.com/satellite.
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