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To: stak who wrote (27)	10/28/1998 5:04:00 AM
From: stak	Respond to of 112

OMNIVOICE TECHNOLOGIES INC. - BELL MOBILITY AND OMNIVOICE TECHNOLOGIES TEAM IN CANADIAN VOICE PAGING TRIALS; TECHNOLOGY LAYSGROUNDWORK TO DELIVER MULTIMEDIA CONTENT TO PAGING USERS Article #: 24493 Date: 10/27/98 6:03:22 PM Dateline: SAN DIEGO,CALIFORNIA Stock Symbol: LHSPF Wire: ISDN Business Editors/Telecommunications Writers OmniVoice Technologies Inc., a joint venture partner with NDC and Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products (Nasdaq:LHSPF, Easdaq:LHSP-ED), today announced that Bell Mobility, Canada's largest provider of paging services, will begin beta trials of its digital voice paging technology. Bell Mobility currently serves more than 500,000 subscribers in Ontario and Quebec. Beta trials of OmniVoice's voice paging technology are also underway in the United States and Mexico. Brian Cotton, telecommunications industry manager for Frost & Sullivan, stated, "We expect that voice paging will become one of the more promising products in the advanced messaging market in the near future. From 1998 to 2008, our estimates suggest that voice messaging may exhibit a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of almost 70 percent in North America. "Although voice paging may not be a product for all end-user segments, it will find applications with certain niches, for whom voice paging is a desirable complement to text-based messaging." OmniVoice's technology leverages the FLEX(TM) infrastructure, enabling carriers to add voice capabilities to existing FLEX paging networks. For Bell Mobility, with an existing FLEX network consisting of 350 transmitters throughout Ontario and Quebec, the potential benefits of utilizing OmniVoice's paging technology are compelling. "We are continually looking for ways to expand and improve on the types of services we can offer our customers, and still maintain a competitive position in the marketplace," said Bell Mobility Director of Paging, Gord Austin. "OmniVoice's technology provides us with a way to offer our paging customers the added value of voice, without a heavy investment in infrastructure." "Bell Mobility is world-renowned for its leading edge technology and expertise," said Kathleen Layton, president and chief executive officer of OmniVoice. "We're extremely pleased to work together in testing this powerful new messaging tool." Oi Electric, a Mitsubishi affiliate, is the first pager manufacturer to incorporate the technology in a voice-enabled device. Its 3N1 pager simultaneously supports voice, text and numeric messages, and operates using a single AA battery. It can store and play (or display) up to 99 voice messages. A total of 1200 seconds of digitized and compressed voice messages, each up to 20 seconds in length, is supported. About Bell Mobility Bell Mobility family of companies provides a complete range of wireless communications solutions -- cellular, 1- and 2-way paging, data, satellite, PCS and airline passenger communications services -- to more than 1.5 million Canadian customers. Bell Mobility companies are subsidiaries of BCE Mobile Communications Inc., a publicly traded company (TSE, ME, NYSE; stock symbol BCX) which is 65% owned by BCE Inc. For more information about Bell Mobility, please visit bellmobility.ca. About OmniVoice Technologies Inc. Founded in July 1995 as NDC Voice and renamed OmniVoice Technologies, Inc. in June 1998, San Diego-based OmniVoice is a world-class provider of advanced wireless voice-messaging applications. The company offers leading-edge technology for the transmission of wireless voice messages over low data-rate digital transmission systems. By combining industry expertise, innovative technology, a flexible infrastructure and entrepreneurial spirit, the company is able to provide wireless carriers with fully integrated end-to-end solutions. OmniVoice has leveraged the core competencies of its founding partners, Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products (L&H) and the National Dispatch Center Inc. (privately held) to bring innovative wireless-voice capabilities to mobile consumer devices. L&H is a worldwide market leader in speech and linguistic technologies, products and services. NDC is the premier gateway provider of wireless messaging services in the United States. --30--lc/sd CONTACT: The Townsend Agency Gwen Carlson, 619/457-4888 x116 gwen@townsendagency.com or OmniVoice Technologies Inc. Shaila Kapoor, 619/268-4900 or Bell Mobility Leanne Bucaro, 905/282-4054 lbucaro@mobility.com

To: stak who wrote (27)	10/28/1998 5:17:00 AM
From: stak	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 112

DTV in the UK to ramp more quickly. All because of the settops with a higher feature set, namely interactivity........................ Full story Digital TV Positioned to Tap Pent-Up Demand: 33 Percent of UK Homes Eager for Interactive Services Via TV 08:17 a.m. Oct 27, 1998 Eastern LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 27, 1998-- Jupiter Warns That Second Platform Requires Separate Strategy To Avoid DTV Cul-De-Sac Digital TV (DTV) is quickly emerging as a second interactive platform in Europe, competing with the Internet for consumer interactivity, and cannot be ignored by commerce, advertising and broadcast companies. According to the research, released today by Jupiter Communications to attendees of its Jupiter Consumer Online Forum/Europe and its Strategic Planning Services (SPS) clients, DTV will require Web ventures to create new strategies and broadcasters to create new competencies. European consumers use of DTV is rising faster than its US counterpart. According to the Jupiter report, DTV-based interactive services will reach over 19 percent of households in the UK, 28 percent in Sweden, and 12 percent in France by 2002. In addition, a newly released Jupiter/NFO survey showed that 33 percent of UK households and 29 percent of French households are willing to pay for interactivity on their television sets, services that many European broadcasters are expecting to offer for free. While consumer demand exists, broadcast, commerce and advertising companies face a new series of challenges, including high cost of entry, possible limited revenues and the lack of experience with the platform. All players will incur some costs to develop interactive services for the TV platform, while the revenue streams to support these ventures may come from current Web budgets. In addition, companies will need to create a strategy that would work on this untested interactive medium. "Designing efforts for a DTV platform has a higher potential for failure than designing for the Web" said Phil Dwyer, managing director of Jupiter's European Internet Strategies. "There's no history of success or failure for the DTV interactive services platform and simply taking a Web strategy directly to a DTV platform can leave companies behind their competitors." Jupiter cautions companies to avoid making DTV into the "Web on TV." The key is to provide a utility-based, commerce-driven environment. Companies should further avoid offering only supplemental information. Jupiter recommends that most satellite and terrestrial broadcasters pursue a "walled garden" strategy, similar to an AOL model, for their interactive services. This strategy locks the audience in and controls the interactive environment, providing greater value to advertisers and commerce partners. However, consumer demand may require them to offer Internet access, which they could provide through a "back door." Companies stressing Internet access via DTV must implement a portal strategy to drive viewers to their advertisers and commerce partners. Message 6186909