Orange and Nokia Extend Strategic Partnership With Mobile Email

London (ots/PRNewswire) -

- Leading International Collaboration Adds Email to Music, Gaming
and Maps for the Ultimate Mobile Multimedia Experience

Orange and Nokia today announced they will extend their
partnership with a new, simple-to-use email service for consumers.
This extension to their multi-country agreement will deliver and
launch a co-branded solution, Nokia Messaging by Orange, on a range
of Orange Signature devices, aiming to bring mobile email to everyone
with a phone, as well as working professionals.

First announced in February 2008, this three-year agreement was
formed by Nokia and Orange to meet growing demand for multimedia on
the mobile. It combines and integrates the best available services
from both companies in the areas of music, games and maps across a
range of Nokia devices. The successful alliance will expand the
portfolio to eight countries and will include up to 30 Nokia devices
in the Orange Signature range in 2009.

Launching first in the UK from this summer, followed by France
and Spain, Orange customers will be able to take advantage of
built-in push email on the forthcoming Nokia E75 and a range of Nokia
devices.

Olaf Swantee, Senior EVP of Orange's global mobile business,
said, "It was only a few weeks ago that we announced our strategy to
make mobile multimedia a mass market phenomenon. This extension to
our partnership with Nokia shows how serious we are about bringing
mobile multimedia to every customer. With our leadership in
innovation, proven expertise in convergence across our fixed, mobile
and broadband networks and knowledge of our customers, we think this
offer will help increase consumer appetite for mobile email."

Raoul Roverato, EVP of Orange's New Growth Businesses, confirmed,
"Orange and Nokia have worked jointly as a team during those past
months to provide the best of breed services to Orange mobile
customers based on each company's assets and service platforms. This
new milestone will strengthen our partnership with Nokia and
underline our commitment to provide additional value to Orange
customers. This will pave the way to new opportunities of
partnerships between the two companies in the coming months."

Kai Oistamo, Executive Vice President, Nokia says, "Orange is the
first operator group to announce a European-wide offering of Nokia
Messaging to their customers and we are very pleased about this
extension to our service collaboration. The agreement on Nokia
Messaging will boost the adoption of mobile email service and makes
it easy for consumers to activate the service on-device and at
Point-of-Sale. We believe that mobile messaging is for everyone, not
just for a certain segment of the consumer market."

Orange customers will be able to aggregate and manage multiple
email accounts while on the move via the Orange homescreen. This
service is easy to set up and enables people to directly access up to
10 personal email accounts, letting them read, send, forward and
reply to emails, view subfolders, download and read attachments and
attach files to emails directly on the Nokia device.

Orange and Nokia have agreed to launch Nokia Messaging in several
major markets during 2009 with bundling, pricing and attractive
tariffs announced locally across the Orange footprint.

About Orange

http://www.orange.com/en_EN/group/

About Nokia

Nokia is the world's number one manufacturer of mobile devices by
market share and a leader in the converging Internet and
communications industries. We make a wide range of devices for all
major consumer segments and offer Internet services that enable
people to experience music, maps, media, messaging and games. We also
provide comprehensive digital map information through NAVTEQ and
equipment, solutions and services for communications networks through
Nokia Siemens Networks.

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Contact:
For further information, please contact:, Orange, Vanessa Clarke,
+44-7891-056-593, vanessa.clarke@orange-ftgroup.com; Bertrand
Deronchaine, +33-1-44-44-93-93,
bertrand.deronchaine@orange-ftgroup.com; Nokia, Communications, Tel.
+358-7180-34900, Email: press.services@nokia.com