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London, 25 January 2010: The OMTP today announced the successful launch of its new Affiliate category with the signing of IT services company, Tieto, silicon company, SST and mobile application testing company, DeviceAnywhere. The new category enables affiliates to be a part of the recommendations body and to stay in close contact with its activities, including BONDI. The cost of affiliate membership is €600 per annum.

Tieto, SST, DeviceAnywhere and future affiliate members will be kept in regular contact with the activities of OMTP and will have their logos and details displayed on the OMTP website. They will also be able to use the OMTP and BONDI logos to help with their own marketing and promotions. In addition, affiliates will receive discounts to OMTP endorsed industry events, regular newsletters about the progress of OMTP activities and an invitation to a twice yearly OMTP affiliate conference via webinar.

Tim Raby, Managing Director, OMTP said, “OMTP have created our new affiliate level to encourage a new set of companies to be connected with the work we are doing and to give more opportunities to be involved. 2010 will be an exciting year for OMTP with BONDI going from strength to strength. We’re delighted to have signed up Tieto, SST and DeviceAnywhere and look forward to many more affiliates in the coming months and building up increased networking opportunities for those companies”

“We are proud to join OMTP as an affiliate because we recognize the importance of addressing the challenges of fragmentation and fully support the BONDI initiative. We hope that our expertise in mobile application testing will bring some additional insight and support to the organization,” said Faraz Syed, CEO and Co-founder of DeviceAnywhere."

"SST is proud to join OMTP as an affiliate to show our support for the BONDI initiative," said Jason Feinsmith, a Vice President at Silicon Storage Technology, Inc. "We have also been impressed with the BONDI team's execution of this project. While mobile browser User Interfaces are advancing extremely rapidly, the BONDI initiative will make web browser and widget based applications even better by complementing the UI with consistent and secure access to important native resources. BONDI is a secure, ubiquitous, and remarkably powerful platform which benefits the entire mobile industry, including the exciting activities of the GSMA Smart SIM project."

“As an industry leader, Tieto is committed to open standards in the mobile industry. With our deep experience and expertise in the mobile domain and end-to-end services, Tieto is well placed to help our customers and community developers innovate without sacrificing time-to-market. We see OMTP as an ideal forum for such innovation without further creating fragmentation.” said Mika Yletyinen, Head of Mobile Devices, Tieto

If you’d like any further information about the new affiliate category, please visit the OMTP website or email

The OMTP will be attending the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona (Feb 14th - 17th) if you would like to arrange a media meeting, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

About OMTP

OMTP is a forum funded by companies from across the mobile phone value chain, set up with the aim of gathering and driving mobile terminal requirements to ensure consistent and secure implementations, thereby reducing fragmentation and simplifying the customer experience of mobile data services across mobile terminals. OMTP is backed by many of the largest mobile operators and has members from hardware and software vendors across the value chain. For more information, visit www.omtp.org.

For further information regarding the OMTP, please contact:
Sarah Bedwell
MUSTARD PR
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