CellPoint Signs with France Telecom Mobiles Commercial Agreement for GSM Location Services

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CellPoint Signs with France Telecom Mobiles Commercial Agreement for GSM Location Services Stockholm, July 13 -- CellPoint Inc. (Nasdaq: CLPT; www.cellpt.com) announces the commercial agreement with the mobile division of France Telecom (NYSE: FTE); www.francetelecom.fr). The Fleet Management service supplied to France Telecom Mobiles in the TM commercial agreement is based on the Resource Manager Se rvice from TM CellPoint . It enables transport, security, service and sales organisations to be more efficient and to increase customer satisfaction by routing their vehicles and personnel more effectively. The CellPoint technology, which has been tested extensively by France Telecom's Research and Development department for several months, enables France Telecom Mobiles to offer location services using their existing GSM network without doing any upgrades. Using Standard GSM Phones and the Internet "The fact that we are using a standard GSM phone with SIM Toolkit support and an Internet connection, something that most companies already have, makes this service suitable for volume sales as never seen before," says Cyrille Mazzella, Sales Director of CellPoint Systems AB. "All companies can now afford to benefit from the advantages of location services in daily work. Security, Information and Messaging services based on mobile location technologies will soon be widely available on the GSM world market where GSM users exceed 290 million already. These new commercial services provide strong leverage for network operators and are secured by CellPoint's leadership position in delivering location-based services that are ready to launch with proven technology." France Telecom (NYSE: FTE) is one of the world's largest telecommunications companies with operations in 75 countries and revenues of 27.2 billion euros in 1999. France Telecom Mobiles (www.itineris.com) is the mobile division of France Telecom (www.francetelecom.fr), The Itineris GSM Service of France Telecom had a total of 10.9 million subscribers at March 31, 2000. In 1999, the number of subscribers increased 4.5 million, or 81.4 % and grew by 2.5 million in 1998. The success of France Telecom is the result of continued improvements in the quality of the calls on the Itineris network. CellPoint Inc. (Nasdaq: CLPT; www.cellpt.com) is a US company with subsidiary operations in Sweden, Great Britain and South Africa delivering location and wireless telematics services in cooperation with cellular operators worldwide. CellPoint's end-to-end cellular location technology works in unmodified GSM networks and uses standard GSM or WAP phones and standard Internet services. Several commercial applications are available for business and personal location services including Resource Manager for mobile resource management and CellPoint Finderä, an application for locating friends and family. Common estimates for GSM subscribers to 2005 are one billion users, whereas worldwide shipments of cellular handsets with embedded GPS (Global Positioning System) are estimated at four million in 2000 and 38.5 million in 2003. The wireless location services industry in Europe alone is estimated by The Strategis Group to generate more than $80 billion between now and 2005. For more information, please contact: CellPoint Inc. Media Contact: Lynn Duplessis, Tel: +44 1344 624 565; Lynn@cellpt.com CellPoint Systems: Cyrille Mazzella, +46 8 633 27 00, cm@cellpt.com North American Inquiries: The Rowe Group; 877-880-1195; ajc@rowe-group.com France Telecom Media Relations: Olivier Seconda, Tel: +33 1 44.44.93.93, Olivier.seconda@francetelecom.fr CellPoint Inc. CellPoint Systems The Rowe Group Tel: +44 1344 624 Tel: +46 8 633 2700 877-880-1195 565 Fax: +46 8 623 090 Fax: +46 8 35 87 90 Ajc@rowe-group.com Info@cellpt.com Info@cellpt.com http://www.cellpt.c http://www.cellpt.c om om France Telecom Tel: +33 1 44.44.93.93 http://www.itineris .com TMCellPoint , CellPoint Systems , CellPoint Finder! an d Resource Manager are trademarks of CellPoint Inc. Forward-looking statements in this release are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Act of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from those projected in any forward-looking statement. Investors are cautioned that such forward-looking statements involve risk and uncertainties, which may cause actual results to differ from those described. Itineris is a trademark of France Telecom Mobiles Copyright © CellPoint Inc. 2000 ------------------------------------------------------------ This information was brought to you by BIT http://www.bit.se The following files are available for download: http://www.bit.se/bitonline/2000/07/13/20000713BIT00130/bit0001.doc http://www.bit.se/bitonline/2000/07/13/20000713BIT00130/bit0002.pdf