Press Release October 2001

Siemens and Beyond Solutions Europe (BSE) team up to bring games onto the wireless Internet

Siemens Information and Communication Mobile Group (IC Mobile) and Beyond Solutions Europe (BSE), an innovative Spanish/American infotainment supplier, are cooperating in the field of games services for mobile networks. Based on BSE’s gaming platform and an attractive catalog of games, Siemens will compile customer-specific packages for mobile gaming and integrate them into mobile networks. The advantage of the new solution is that operators and service providers can offer their customers games that run on different devices and in different networks. The mobile gaming solution will be available in the fourth quarter of 2001.

Alongside network technologies such as SMS, WAP, GPRS or UMTS, the mobile gaming solution from Siemens also supports device-related technologies such as FLASH and J2ME. This means that the games can be used both on mobile phones and PDAs, PCs or digital TV. Furthermore, Siemens plans with its partner to add new functions to the BSE platform for future standards. For example, the gaming platform is already being prepared for the future standard of the Mobile Games Interoperability Forum (www.mgif.org), of which Siemens Mobile is a founding member. Within the context of this standard, development tools (Standard Tool Development Kits (SDK), APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) and initiatives such as the Siemens Mobile Partner Program (http://www.siemens.com/mobile-partners) will support software developers in designing new standard-compliant games. This will make it easier for games suppliers and service providers to offer their customers new, imaginative games in different networks and for any device.

"Based on BSE’s platform, Siemens will compile comprehensive and innovative solution packages for mobile entertainment and gaming", declared Thorsten Heins, President of Solutions at Information and Communication Mobile. "We are opening a new chapter for mobile applications. On the basis of our solution, operators and providers will be taking one more step toward GPRS and UMTS."

"Entertainment and gaming are strategically important services for operators since they make a considerable contribution to sales and boosting customer loyalty.", explains Horacio J.J. Vera, CEO of BSE, "With Siemens being one of the key players in the mobile industry, and BSE adding its expertise in network-based games, this partnership will bring huge benefits to the gaming market. We are therefore confident that our joint solution will meet the expectations of this market."

Beyond Solutions Europe, is a Spanish legally established corporation, which is primarily engaged in the production, through its subsidiaries, its divisions and units, of contents, applications, integrated management and services platforms, in and for the Internet, for traditional web PC environment, and for wireless Internet (2, 2.5 and 3 G, in WAP and others protocols), for color windows Pocket PC PDAs, plus interaction and communication with common legacy systems on customers' environments. Our Spanish Internet content sites count millions of monthly visitors and our tools and contents are present and successful in several markets and 8 languages, now working for 4 new markets and languages and broadband developments.

More info: for services, technology and contents, please contact info@beyond.es and for company general related issues: prensa@beyond.es

The Siemens Information and Communication Mobile Group (IC Mobile) offers the complete range of mobile solutions including mobile devices, infrastructure and applications. Devices include mobile phones, wireless modules, mobile organizers and cordless phones as well as products for wireless home networks. The infrastructure portfolio includes the complete range of GSM, GPRS and UMTS mobile network technologies from base stations and switching systems to intelligent networks, e.g. for prepaid services. Applications cover mobile services for Unified Messaging, Location Based Services, and Mobile Payment. For the fiscal year 2000 (which ended September 30, 2000), IC Mobile recorded sales of EUR 9 billion and EBIT of EUR 758 million. The group employs 29,840 employees worldwide. (March 31, 2001).

You can access further information about Siemens IC Mobile on the Internet at http://www.siemens-mobile.com