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To: Steve Lee who wrote (6918)	11/20/2001 9:34:58 AM
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LBRT, U.K.'s Third-Largest Cable Operator Chooses Liberate for iTV Leveraging Proven Liberate Interactive Platform, Omne Communications Goes to Commercial Deployments of iTV in Just Six Months CARLISLE, United Kingdom and SAN CARLOS, Calif., Nov 20, 2001 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Liberate Technologies (Nasdaq: LBRT chart, msgs), the premier provider of open software platforms for enhanced television, and Omne Communications Limited, the third-largest cable network operator in the United Kingdom, today announced an agreement to deliver interactive services on the Liberate(R) TV Platform(TM) software with commercial deployments scheduled to begin in December 2001. Today's announcement with Omne Communications completes Liberate's success in providing the interactive television software platform to the top three cable network operators in the United Kingdom. Liberate is also the platform software for interactive services offered by ntl and Telewest, who combined have more than 4 million subscribers. (Photo:http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/19990630/LIBERATE ) Omne Communications, a start-up company led by telecommunications veterans from ntl and British Telecom, began work on its new digital broadband communications network covering South West Scotland and North West England only last summer. Its new service will initially pass 325,000 homes within the next two to three years offering interactive television, fixed line voice telephony and high-speed broadband delivery on the new Pace Micro Technology home gateway (digital set-top box), the Di4000. "Omne has done an extraordinary job by going to volume commercial deployment of interactive services in just six months," said Stuart Collingwood, vice president of sales for Europe, Middle East and Africa for Liberate Technologies. "As the leading platform for interactive services for cable in Europe and the world, Liberate offered Omne a proven infrastructure for their innovative services and a technology path for unmatched time to market." "Omne chose Liberate based on our confidence in the company's track record, technology and service," said Ian Renshaw, CEO of Omne Communications. "To offer the best value for our subscribers and to meet our aggressive timelines, we hold our partners to the highest standards of customer service and product delivery and Liberate has performed exceptionally well." Subscribers to the new Omne service will initially be offered interactive services that include an electronic program guide, games, e-mail, near Video-on-Demand and Walled Garden content