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China Telecom’s R&D Center Chooses SPIRIT’s Audio Processing Technology

To Provide Rich Multimedia Internet Experience for Mobile Users in a Pilot Project

MOSCOW, Russia, GUANGZHOU, China – August 3, 2009 – SPIRIT DSP, the world’s leading provider of carrier-grade voice, video and audio communication software engines, announced today that China Telecom Corporation Limited Guangzhou Research Institute has selected SPIRIT’s audio processing technology for its newly researched mobile multimedia pilot project.

Guangzhou Research Institute, a key R&D centre owned by China Telecom, the world’s largest wireline telecommunications and broadband services provider, has selected SPIRIT’s software as a solution for voice processing. SPIRIT’s feature-rich audio processing will contribute with high-quality sound and voice to the oncoming applications, intended to offer both mass market users and enterprise customers rich mobile multimedia Internet experience on cell phones over CDMA EV-DO network.

“Multimedia rich IP applications and services are becoming more and more popular with Chinese mobile customers,” stated Xie Xiao Jun, Technical Director of IT Operation Support department of China Telecom Corporation Limited Guangzhou Research Institute. “Our plan to add more functionality and Internet multimedia experience for both mass market and enterprise customers is now reinforced greatly with the well recognized SPIRIT’s audio processing technology.”

“Thanks to the high optimization level and sophisticated network adaptation algorithms, which complement and amplify network QoS, SPIRIT’s carrier-grade audio and video technologies constantly prove to be the best choice for operators’ IP services, running on the latest end-user terminals,” stated Alex Kravchenko, General Manager of SPIRIT. “We are delighted to contribute our technology to the forthcoming product by China Telecom and we confidently look forward to extending our successful relationship. SPIRIT has already a great track record in supplying the world’s largest and the most innovative carriers like AT&T, British Telecom, China Mobile, Korea Telecom, NTT Communications, and others with the most cutting-edge technology to deliver outstanding HD audio and video to their subscribers.”

About SPIRIT

SPIRIT DSP (www.spiritDSP.com) is the world’s leading provider of carrier-grade voice & video software engines since 1996. SPIRIT communication software is used in over 80 countries and powers more than 100 million voice channels. SPIRIT counts among its direct customers Adobe, ARM, AT&T, Blizzard, BT, China Mobile, Cisco, Ericsson, HP, HTC, Huawei, Korea Telecom, Kyocera, LG, Microsoft, NEC, Oracle, Polycom, Radvision, Samsung, Siemens, Skype, Texas Instruments, Toshiba, ZTE, and 200+ other telcos, OEMs and software vendors. SPIRIT smart-phone OEM customers’ shipments jointly exceed 60% share of the global market.

02 August 2009