Alcatel launches its 3GRC in Moscow

3GNewsroom.com
January 30, 2005

Alcatel announced the inauguration of its latest born 3G Reality
Centre (3GRC) in Moscow, Russia. The Moscow’s 3G Reality Centre,
powered by Alcatel’s industry-leading Evolium global mobile solution,
is using a fully open multi-standard infrastructure compatible with
all technologies. It will nurture local apprenticeship and research
for innovative 2.5G and 3G end-to-end mobile multimedia solutions in
Russia and other CIS countries.

This unique facility is part of the Alcatel’s worldwide 3GRC program
which offers to operators, content and service providers as well as
terminals manufacturers a live business environment for service
innovation, dedicated to the development, validation, testing and
demonstration of exciting next generation mobile applications and
services.

The Moscow’s 3GRC will present a large variety of broadband
user-centric audio, video, and messaging services:

— A broad range of mobile video solutions, spread over two segments:
video content delivery (video streaming, video downloading), and video
communication (video messaging, video telephony, video conferencing,
video mailbox).

— Personalized Ring Back Tone (PRBT) is a new music service available
for Russia and other CIS countries. Personalized Ring Back Tone
subscriber will be able to personalize the usual mechanical ring back
tone heard until the call is connected, by selected music tracks,
sound effects or personal messages.

— Furthermore, forecasting the future of multimedia mobile services
in Russia and other CIS countries, Moscow’s 3GRC will also be able to
showcase services such as video calls, video streaming, high-speed
Internet access and videoconference that require higher transmission
speeds.

“The growth in mobile communication market in the coming years will
depend on the development of multimedia services that can bring value
to all the relevant players in the new value chain,” stated Johan
Vanderplaetse, vice-president of Alcatel in the CIS countries. “The 3G
Reality Centre in Moscow will open new opportunities for introduction
of mobile multimedia services in the fast developing Russian and CIS
mobile market. The opening of this centre paves the way for the
development of 3G mobile services in Russia and is totally in line
with Alcatel’s world-wide user-centric broadband vision.”

* The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) includes: Armenia,
Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Republic of Moldova,
Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.