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Integrated Solutions Enable Operators to Extend Subscriber Services to Mobile Phones AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, Sept. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- OpenTV Corp. (NASDAQ:OPTV), a leading provider of enabling technologies for advanced digital television services, and weComm, a leading mobile technology company, today announced a strategic partnership to provide integrated mobile television solutions to OpenTV's worldwide pay TV customer base and to other broadcasters and programmers interested in providing a seamless experience across traditional broadcast television and mobile TV. The solution will be shown at OpenTV's stand 1.381 at the RAI Centre in Amsterdam, September 8 - 12, 2006. "We are delighted that we will be able to offer a seamless solution to our customers that bridges the pay TV experience with the mobile phone experience in a user-friendly manner," said Ben Bennett, Senior Vice President and Managing Director of EMEA at OpenTV. "This integrated solution is intended to make it easy for our customers to extend their TV experience across multiple platforms and devices, and to allow those viewers to personalize that experience in ever more compelling ways. One simple example of this Mobile TV is to enable OpenTV's PVR users to record programs seamlessly and remotely from the mobile handset." The integrated solution combines features and functionalities from OpenTV's advanced digital television software, in particular its middleware offering, and weComm's wave technology. The solution extends OpenTV's middleware features into the mobile environment, allowing direct access on the mobile phone to electronic programming guides (EPGs) that have been ported to OpenTV's platform. The solution also enables mobile phone users to remotely program their PVRs and to view live or on-demand television programming by navigating through the EPG resident on their phone. "Integrating weComm's Interactive Mobile TV technology with OpenTV's industry-leading technologies offers a solution that will seamlessly extend TV-based interactive services to the mobile phone," said Oliver Sturrock, Chief Operating Officer of weComm. "We think that these solutions will help broadcasters and operators extend their content and services to a younger and more mobile audience. And we think that by combining OpenTV's and weComm's expertise and technologies, we can do that in an effective and seamless way that will eventually lead the market." The weComm solution is available on Symbian OS, Microsoft Windows Mobile and Java phones and has been ported to over 100 handsets, including Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, Samsung, LG and the RIM Blackberry. The solution is available to OpenTV customers immediately. About Open TV OpenTV is one of the world's leading providers of technologies and services enabling the delivery of digital and interactive television. The company's software has been integrated in over 70 million digital set-top-boxes in 96 countries. The software enables enhanced program guides, video-on-demand, personal video recording, enhanced television, interactive shopping, interactive and addressable advertising, games and gaming and a variety of consumer care and communication applications. For more information, please visit http://www.opentv.com/. About weComm weComm is a leading mobile technology company whose wave platform enables customers to maximize the value of their content by providing sophisticated, personalized services for mobile devices. weComm's Mobile Transport Protocol technology (MTP), dramatically improves the performance and resilience of available wireless networks, allowing textual and multimedia content to be delivered and vital transactions to be completed reliably under a wide variety of network conditions. This technology has already been applied in various sectors such as interactive mobile television (including for BSkyB), on-device portals, financial services, betting and gaming and the promotion of consumer brands. weComm recently launched admo, an efficient, easy to monitor advertising service which enables weComm's customers to generate additional revenue from their mobile audience. weComm works closely with partner organizations including Microsoft, Research In Motion (RIM), Symbian and Ericsson on a range of activities including sales, marketing, content, technology development, integration and deployment. weComm's infrastructure adapts services and content to any network and supports a broad range of handset types and platforms including Java J2ME, Symbian Series 60 / UIQ, RIM BlackBerry and Microsoft Windows Mobile (PocketPC Phone Edition and Smartphone). For further information please visit http://www.wecomm.com/. DATASOURCE: OpenTV, Corp. CONTACT: Barbara Cassidy of OpenTV, +1-415-962-5055, or ; or Justin Hayward, MCIPR FRSA of Manning, Selvage & Lee, +44-0-20-7878-3291, or mobile, +44-0-20-7880-794298, or ; or Marylene Guernier of M:Delta, +44-207-153-1274, or ; or Ray Yeung, , or Matt Hantz, , both of Brainerd Communicators, Inc., +1-212-986-6667; or Kevin Emamy of weComm, +44-207-448-7900, or Web site: http://www.wecomm.com/ Web site: http://www.opentv.com/

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