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Telstra Increases Content and Mobile Data Revenues with SurfKitchen Powered Mobile User Interface

Personalised Mobile Experience Increases Frequency and Volume of Mobile Content and Data Service Usage on Feature Phones

Reading, UK – Dec 1st, 2009 – SurfKitchen announced that Telstra, Australia's leading telecommunications and information services company, has increased mobile content and data revenues by more than 11 percent on SurfKitchen powered TelstraOne Experience handsets. Launched in May 2009, the TelstraOne Experience is an innovative mobile user interface that leverages the SurfKit Mobile Internet Platform to give subscribers quick and easy personalised access to applications and services they regularly use on their mobile phone.

Analysis of results since launch revealed that customers using TelstraOne Experience were 60 percent more likely to use their phone on a weekly basis to access the mobile web when compared to Telstra’s regular 3G mobile customers. In reviewing how the new user interface impacted mobile data use by volume, Telstra found that mobile data use was almost 7 percent higher when comparing results on two identical handsets – one with TelstraOne Experience and one without.

“Our research indicates consumers are much more likely to head online when they can easily set-up and personalise links to their favorite sites,” said Ross Fielding, Executive Director, Telstra Product Management. “By leveraging SurfKitchen’s technology, TelstraOne brings icon-driven web access – which is usually associated with smartphones – to 3G feature phones."

Based on the success of the initial rollout, Telstra is launching the TelstraOne Experience on the Sony Ericsson Naite and Sony Ericsson T707, giving pre-paid customers the opportunity to experience TelstraOne for the first time.
 
"The results Telstra has achieved with TelstraOne Experience are a testament to our close collaboration with one of the world’s most innovative wireless carriers,” said Michel Quazza, Chief Executive Officer, SurfKitchen. “With TelstraOne, Telstra has clearly demonstrated that a great user experience does not necessarily require a high-end phone. This is an extremely important point as it highlights the potential for carriers to differentiate competitively priced mass-market phones that are sold every year."

SurfKitchen has been working with Telstra since 2004 and its technology has been installed on more than 60 different device models. Telstra initially selected SurfKitchen technology to support the launch of Telstra Downloads, an on-device retail solution for mobile content downloads. Based on the success of that deployment, Telstra extended its relationship with SurfKitchen in 2005 to launch its Next G mobile services and applications portal, Telstra MyPlace.

Supporting Resources
•    TelstraOne Experience Demo
•    Telstra Selects SurfKitchen to Power Innovative New Mobile User Interface
 
About Telstra
Telstra is Australia’s leading telecommunications and information services company with one of the best known brands in the country. Telstra is the only true media communications company in Australia that can provide customers with a truly integrated telecommunications experience across fixed line, mobiles, broadband (BigPond®), information, transaction and search (Sensis®) and pay TV (FOXTEL).

About SurfKitchen
SurfKitchen is uniquely focused on providing mobile operators and their partners with the ability to deliver the optimum mobile user experience for mobile Internet applications and services. Optimizing the user experience helps build brand loyalty, reduce customer churn and drive the uptake of mobile Internet applications and services, resulting in increased mobile data ARPU.

SurfKitchen provides a Mobile Internet Platform that delivers a personalised, compelling and intuitive on device experience for subscribers to discover, acquire and use the broadest catalogue of mobile internet applications and services on the widest  range of smart phones and feature phones including Symbian Series 60, Microsoft Mobile 5&6, Java J2ME MIDP2, BREW 3.1.5, RIM BlackBerry and Android platforms.

SurfKitchen's solutions have been deployed by major operators throughout the world including Orange Group, Telstra, Telefonica Moviles Espana, Maxis and ALJAWAL (Saudi Telecom). For more information, visit: http://www.surfkitchen.com.

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