LONDON, April 22 /PRNewswire/ --

- New Offering Packages Unified Communications and Fixed to Mobile
Convergence for Wireless Operators to Deliver Value Added Services (VAS) to
Small and Medium Businesses

LONDON, April 22 /PRNewswire/ --

CommuniGate Systems, the leader in carrier-class Mobile
Unified Communications, today announced the launch of its new offering -
CommuniGate Systems Mobile Office http://www.communigate.com. Mobile Office
addresses the market shift from fixed to mobile convergence for broadband and
communications and will help the mobile operator deliver Value Added Services
(VAS) through mobile unified communications to the lucrative business
subscriber market.

Mobile Office empowers mobile operators to deliver a
"Virtualised Office" with Unified Communications as Software as a Service
(SaaS) to small and medium sized businesses. CommuniGate Systems Mobile
Office is a fixed to mobile convergence solution that includes a Flash based
Web 2.0 client called Pronto! that works on PCs, Mac, or Linux laptops or
computers with no installation needed. Pronto! delivers messaging, contacts
and collaboration tools such as shared folders and shared calendars in a
single dashboard http://tiny.cc/4AE7S. The mobile device access for Mobile
Office is supported natively for the iPhone 3G, Nokia, and WinMobile devices.

Custom-branded mash-up interfaces are packaged with
CommuniGate Systems Mobile Office to enable fast setup and registration of
services from mobile retail shop kiosks or directly from an operator's
website. Operators will gain enhanced subscriber loyalty and dramatically
reduce churn rates by hosting the core business communications and services
for the company. The turnkey package is ideal for small businesses that want
to virtualise communications, and consolidate telecom and data rate plans.
Most SMEs cannot manage and have little desire to invest in premise-based UC
solutions. A fixed to mobile convergence solution is perfect to drive
broadband access offered in a bundle with USB based 3G adapters delivering
access anywhere.

A recent IDC study stated that 75% of the global workforce
would be mobile by 2011. Enterprises are investing in mobile unified
communications solutions that increase worker productivity and can help shed
costs from operations. A survey by CommuniGate Systems among fixed-line and
wireless providers found that Mobile Business Subscribers have six times less
churn rates than consumer or residential subscribers and on average result in
four times higher ARPU http://tiny.cc/b3DgT.

"We see many businesses shifting to mobile broadband
services," explains Simon Paton, managing director of CommuniGate Systems UK,
"Small companies want Unified Communications, but they need it delivered by
SaaS as mobility is the key feature businesses want today. With a fixed to
mobile convergence solution, such as Mobile Office, mobile operators will be
able to extract value from the huge investments they made in building out
their 3G network with the highest value customer - the business subscriber,
and deliver the mobile unified communications organisations demand."

"We see data ARPU growing at a 20-30% annual rate, and robust
increases in Internet access revenues and multimedia messaging volumes, which
all indicate that data will be the key catalyst for future ARPU growth" says
Ronald Gruia, Program Leader of Emerging Telecoms at Frost & Sullivan,
"CommuniGate Systems Mobile Office is well positioned to enable operators to
capture some of that data growth opportunity within the VAS segment."

The complete line of value added services via CommuniGate
Systems Mobile Office is built upon the CommuniGate Pro Unified
Communications platform, the most reliable SaaS delivery platform that
delivers virtualisation of domains with a modular feature set, powerful class
of service provisioning, and a live rolling updates change management
capability not found in other solutions. The platform's exclusive Dynamic
Clustering architecture provides 99.999% uptime in a multi-tenant
architecture with no single point of failure, and allows SaaS providers to
add front-end or back-end nodes as needed without any downtime or service
interruption http://tiny.cc/jmEwv. CommuniGate Pro makes it easy for service
providers and operators to offer business class services with costs that
decline as virtualised client volume increases. CommuniGate Pro is the only
truly integrated mobile unified communications platform that was built to
power all forms of IP communications in one integrated platform.

About CommuniGate Systems

Based in London, CommuniGate UK is a business unit of GAP
Internet Communications - the sole distributor for CommuniGate Systems within
the UK. Founded in 1991 and based in Mill Valley, California, CommuniGate
Systems develops carrier-class Unified Communications and media delivery
software for broadband and mobile operators to deliver value-added services
and SaaS solutions. CommuniGate Systems delivers powerful mashups of Unified
Communications technology mixed with media and entertainment applications for
portals, social networks, enterprises and mobile communities. CommuniGate
Systems is revolutionising the Unified Communications industry with a unique
Flash-based client framework Pronto! bringing together all forms of
communication and breaking the leash to the desktop with Web 2.0 mobility.

CommuniGate Systems is the first choice in technology
solutions for over 12,000 customers with over 130 million subscribers
unifying e-mail, collaboration, IM, presence and VoIP with a single identity.
The Unified Communications platform provides flexibility, performance, and
scalability with benchmark proven architecture remaining unchallenged in the
industry. Our technology powers OEM partner products ranging from embedded
real time systems to powerful unified messaging platforms at top tier global
network operators. The open development environment's simple APIs deliver
extensible flexibility with a unique clustering technology for 99.999% uptime
for the most demanding application environments.

The company is a trusted and financially stable vendor,
maintaining the highest customer satisfaction levels in the Unified
Communications industry with over 175 members in its partner network
worldwide.

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