TELUS Mobility Taps Tatara Systems for Wi-Fi and Wireless Wide Area 1X Roaming

Acton, Mass. – Tatara Systems, a leading developer of service delivery platforms that accelerate the path to profitability for public wireless LAN (“Wi-Fi”) service providers, today announced that TELUS Mobility has selected Tatara to provide components for Wi-Fi roaming and 1X interoperability.

Tatara’s solution will allow TELUS Mobility to maximize the end user value of its wireless data services by enabling Wi-Fi roaming and by integrating Wi-Fi and wireless WAN (1X) services into a single end user offering. The Tatara Wi-Fi Service Delivery Platform allows a carrier to maintain control of its subscribers and to extend advanced services to those subscribers – regardless of what type of network they are using or who operates the network.

The Tatara solution also allows TELUS Mobility to better manage its roaming relationships – a critical function given the company’s commitment to a cross-industry Wi-Fi roaming initiative announced by the Canadian Wireless Telecom Association (CWTA) earlier this year.

“TELUS Mobility found Tatara’s unique platform approach best enables us to deliver world-class Wi-Fi and 1X services to our clients across Canada,” said Robert Blumenthal, Vice President of Products and Services for TELUS Mobility. “By leveraging Tatara’s solutions, we can ensure that our subscribers have access to the most consistent and highest value wireless data services – available across the largest number of networks.”

“Being selected by TELUS Mobility – a leading national wireless carrier with a history of innovation – validates the superior capabilities of Tatara’s unique and patent-pending platform solution,” said Steve Nicolle, President and CEO of Tatara Systems. “We’re excited to be selected by TELUS Mobility as a key solution provider for its wireless data services, and we look forward to continuing to work with TELUS Mobility to extend and differentiate these offerings going forward.”

TELUS Mobility provides its more than 3 million clients across Canada with a full suite of wireless voice, Internet and data services through its PCS and Mike digital wireless networks. For more about TELUS Mobility products, please visit telusmobility.com.

TELUS (TSX: T, T.A; NYSE: TU) is the largest telecommunications company in Western Canada and the second largest in the country, with 25,000 team members. The company provides subscribers with a full range of telecommunications products and services including data, voice and TELUS Mobility wireless services across Canada, utilizing next generation internet-protocol-based network technologies. TELUS was a premier founding supporter of the successful bid to bring the 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games to Canada.

Tatara Systems develops service delivery platforms that accelerate the path to profitability for public wireless LAN (“Wi-Fi”) service providers. Tatara’s Wi-Fi Service Delivery Platform enables both retail and wholesale service providers such as mobile operators, wireline carriers, neutral host network operators, aggregators, ISPs and cable operators to profitably support roaming relationships without sacrificing security, control or advanced capabilities. By providing unparalleled visibility into critical Wi-Fi service data such as usage and performance information – including information collected while customers are on roaming partners’ networks – Tatara’s patent-pending architecture gives service providers unprecedented control over services, usage, network quality and security using just one centralized platform. The result is more attractive Wi-Fi business models that expand revenue opportunities, deliver shorter payback periods, require less capital and produce higher ROIs. Based in Acton, Mass., Tatara Systems is a privately held company backed by the leading communications investment firms Highland Capital Partners and North Bridge Venture Partners. For more information, visit www.tatarasystems.com.