Telepo and Global IP Sound partner to bring high-quality voice-processing technology to the enterprise market, paving the way for new virtual mobile phone applications

Stockholm, Sweden – October 11, 2005 – Telepo today announced that the company has partnered with Global IP Sound, the leading provider of embedded voice-processing solutions for the Voice over IP (VoIP) market. The new partnership ensures that the same IP voice quality consumers benefit from using Skype, AOL or EarthLink now is available also for companies using Telepo Enterprise Communication Server.

Together with Global IP Sound, Telepo will also showcase its upcoming Virtual Mobile Phone at the Symbian Smartphone Show held in London on October 11-12.

“We are very pleased with this partnership since it adds fundamental components to our enterprise platform,” said Lars-Michaël Paqvalén, CEO and Founder of Telepo. “Now there will be a serious offering to the enterprises that want to fully leverage the capabilities of the VoIP technology and fixed-to-mobile convergence trend, without having to trade off the audio quality for phone calls.”

With the embedded voice-processing technology from Global IP Sound, Telepo is able to bring in VoIP to the enterprises and offer an innovative connection between the mobile phone and the PC, further facilitating business communication, such as call control, SMS, mobile call pick-up and transfer, voice mail, conference calls, etc.

“We have previously announced partnerships with companies such as Skype, AOL and EarthLink, and extending our offering to the enterprise market through Telepo is a natural step to take. In just a few years, Telepo has gained trust from industry leaders such as Nokia, Cisco, IBM and Symbian”, said Gary Hermansen, President and CEO of Global IP Sound.

Telepo Enterprise Communication Server integrates mobile, fixed and new IP-based communication services, works in any network, supports any PBX system and works on any device. It is a complete product addressing all needs of the enterprise from usability (easy to use), cost savings and control, policy enforcement, reporting functions and software distribution and configuration ensuring the product to be deployable on the market today within current enterprise networks. Telepo Enterprise Communication Server consists of applications like mobile least cost routing, mobile extensions, personal call routing, on-line call statistics and reporting, virtual mobile phone, integrated voice recording and contacts synchronization.

About Telepo
Telepo is the world’s leading software company in providing fixed-to-mobile convergence solutions for enterprises and service providers. Telepo develops products and applications offering a complete end-to-end enterprise communication platform, encompassing all corporate requirements for management, deployment and security. Telepo’s flexible business model, “pay per use”, and track record of exceeding customer expectations, has resulted in more than 100,000 licenses sold during the last 12 months. Telepo has headquarters in Stockholm and offices in Helsinki and Melbourne. More information is available at www.telepo.com.

About Global IP Sound
Founded in 1999, Global IP Sound develops embedded voice processing technologies for real-time communications over packet networks. GIPS SoundWare™ provides better than PSTN voice quality and fidelity in end-to-end IP communications with robustness against packet loss.  Global IP Sound’s world-renowned speech processing and IP telephony experts deliver these solutions to applications developers, gateway and chip manufacturers. Global IP Sound is a member of the Intel PCA Developer Network, the Motorola Design Alliance, and Texas Instruments’ third party developer network. Global IP Sound has headquarters in San Francisco and offices in Stockholm, Boston and Hong Kong. More information is available at www.globalipsound.com.