Argogroup and Distocraft To Offer Improved Solution To Mobile Network Operators





Announcing TeliaSonera as first joint customer for user and service experience optimisation solution ?

-/June 14, 2005 - Wi-Fi Technology News/-Argogroup, the leader in user experience optimisation for mobile services, and Distocraft Ltd., a provider of wireless network performance management and service assurance solutions, today announced their partnership to offer an improved user and service experience optimisation solution to mobile network operators worldwide.

The first fully implemented customer of this solution is the Finnish arm of TeliaSonera, the leading telecommunications company in the Nordic and Baltic region. The new solution offering from the two companies combines Argogroup?s User Experience Optimization platform, Monitor Master, and Distocraft?s reporting and data drilling product, Distocraft DC5000.

These are critical times for mobile operators. Most have made massive investments in developing and deploying 3G networks, but have only recently brought services on line. And, as voice revenues continue to decline as a share of overall income, all are searching for the the ?killer apps? that will appeal to consumers and corporate customers to drive critical data revenues..

Through the integration of the two software product technologies, operators will profit from the flexible application test and monitoring power of Monitor Master combined with the Distocraft DC5000?s powerful capability of turning the ever increasing flow of network data into actionable Network Business Information in the areas of performance management, configuration management and service quality management. The overarching benefit of the joint offering will enable mobile operators to offer improved quality of experience for customers using value added services such as photo messaging, video calling, video streaming, and instant messaging.

Paul Nerger, Sr. Vice President, Argogroup states, ?The quality of the user experience is the key competitive differentiator to users who are prepared to pay for premium data services. It?s the critical factor that will determine revenue, customer churn, and eventually profits.? He continues, ?I?m excited about our cooperation with Distocraft. This is a great company which holds the same core value as we do; delighting customers. This partnership will enable innovative mobile network operators, such as TeliaSonera, to achieve real breakthrough with their mobile data services. The integration of Monitor Master and Distocraft 5000, in TeliaSonera will drive continous improvement in the quality and thus uptake of their mobile data services.?

Distocraft's CEO, Mr. Pekka Ruusunen states, "Delivering high-quality, data services to the diversity of today?s networks is not easy; there are lots of different user needs, different handsets, and different environmental factors that must be served and served well if you are to win. Service glitches are one of the key hurdles holding subscribers back from adopting and retaining advanced services. Our solution when combined with Argogroup gives operators the visability into quality issues such that they can continuously improve.thus allowing them to give their users what it is that they really want ? services that they love.?


About Distocraft Ltd

Distocraft provides software solutions for wireless network performance management and service assurance. Distocraft brings wireless network operators flexible tools to improve their network quality and profitability and to make decisions on network investments and capacity allocation based on actual performance data. With Distocraft solutions, wireless network operators can improve service level to attract new subscribers and prevent churn, while lowering both capital and operating expenses. Founded in 1999 and privately held, Distocraft Ltd. is headquartered in Helsinki, Finland. Further information is available at http://www.distocraft.com.

About Argogroup

Argogroup specialises in optimizing user experience for mobile services, a discipline that focuses on the interaction between network, service and handset. The company?s two software products - Monitor Master and Device Master - help handset manufacturers and mobile operators test, monitor and develop products and services so that users spend more time and money on them.

Monitor Master is the world?s leading User Experience Optimization platform, in use in over 50 mobile operators and equipment manufacturers worldwide. Device Master automatically creates detailed handset profiles so that all device data is held in a central knowledge base.

Argogroup is backed by Apax Partners Funds and 3i. Its headquarters are near Guildford, UK, with offices in Seattle, Portland, Pleasanton, Paris and Stockholm, Milan, Hong Kong and Beijing. For more information, visit: http://www.argogroup.com/