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Thin Multimedia, Inc. and Tata Teleservices Limited Enter Into a Commercial Agreement for Mobile Multimedia Services.


PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California
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, Calif. -- Thin Multimedia, Inc. (TMI TMI Too Much Information
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), a leading developer and provider of mobile multimedia solutions, and Tata Teleservices Tata Teleservices Limited (TTSL) is part of the Tata Group of Companies, an Indian Conglomerate. It runs the brand name Tata Indicom in India in various telecom circles of India. The company forms part of the Tata Group's prescence in the Telecommunication Industry in India, along with  Limited (TTSL TTSL Tata Teleservices Ltd. (India)
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), India's fastest growing mobile service provider, today announced that they entered into an agreement to implement TMI's thinMME Mobile Multimedia Solution on Tata Teleservices network in India.

Tata Teleservices will license TMI's thinMME (Mobile Multimedia Engine) to enable multimedia playback of content on its handsets. thinMME allows users to access multimedia content from the Internet and play it back on their handset in real-time. Users will also be able to view multimedia content from their handsets. thinMME can be easily integrated into cell phones, smart phones, PDAs, and other portable devices. thinMME operates on a variety of platforms such as Brew, Symbian, WIPI WIPI Wireless Internet Platform for Interoperability
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, Java, and Linux.

Commenting on the commercial agreement with Thin Multimedia, Mr. Pankaj Sethi, President - Value Added Value Added

The enhancement a company gives its product or service before offering the product to customers.

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 Services, Tata Teleservies, said, "As India evolves from a pure voice to data driven market, we wanted to take the lead to be the first service provider to offer exciting mobile media services which are not handset dependent. The license with TMI, the world's leading provider of mobile multimedia solutions, would enable us to offer rich and cutting edge multimedia contents on any handset at affordable prices. TMI's full range of compression/decompression (codec (1) (enCOder/DECoder) A hardware circuit that performs analog-to-digital conversion (ADC) and digital-to-analog (DAC) conversion. When analog signals are entered into a computer, cellphone or other device via a microphone or video source such as VHS tape or analog TV, ) software offers superior compression ratio compression ratio

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 enabling consumers to enjoy multimedia content without worrying about the battery drainage."

Tata Teleservices is India's fastest growing telecom service provider with over 16 million subscribers across India, offering a bouquet of telephony services which includes Mobile services, Wireless Desktop Phones, Public Booth Telephony and Wireline services. Having pioneered the 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.  3G1x technology platform in India, Tata has established a robust and reliable 3G ready telecom infrastructure that ensures quality in its services. The company, which heralded convergence technologies in the Indian telecom sector, is the market leader in the fixed wireless telephony telephony without wires, usually employing electric waves of high frequency emitted from an oscillator or generator, as in wireless telegraphy. A telephone transmitter causes fluctuations in these waves, it being the fluctuations only which affect the receiver.

See also: Wireless
 market with a total customer base of over 4.3 million.

"We are delighted to add our second carrier customer in India with this agreement with Tata Teleservices. We have been commercially serving the Indian mobile market since 2002 with Reliance Infocomm, and are looking forward to working with Tata Teleservices to make a major impact in the rapidly growing market in India," said David Kim, Senior Vice President of TMI.

About Thin Multimedia, Inc.

Thin Multimedia, Inc. (TMI) is the leading mobile multimedia software solutions provider to wireless carriers, chipset and handset manufacturers, and content providers. Eleven wireless carriers have commercially deployed TMI solutions for mobile multimedia. TMI has also provided solutions to some of the most prestigious content providers in the world, and to Tier 1 handset and chipset manufacturers around the globe.

About Tata Teleservices

Tata Teleservices is one of India's leading private telecom service providers. The company offers integrated telecom solutions to its customers under the Tata Indicom brand, and uses the latest CDMA 3G1X technology for its wireless network. Tata Teleservices operates in 3400 towns across 20 circles i.e. Andhra Pradesh, Chennai, Gujarat, Karnataka, New Delhi, Maharashtra, Mumbai, Tamil Nadu, Orissa, Bihar, Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh (E), Uttar Pradesh (W), Kolkata, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal. The company has a customer base of over 16 million.
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