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Telefónica Móviles España endorses Symbian Signed Program

The Symbian Smartphone Show, London, UK, October 11th 2005 - At The Smartphone Show today, Symbian Limited and Telefónica Móviles España announced that the operator is endorsing the Symbian Signed Program by mandating that all Symbian OS™ applications delivered through its channels must have successfully completed the Symbian Signed application signing process. 

Symbian Signed is an industry-wide initiative led by Symbian that meets the market need for a flexible generic certification program for Symbian OS mobile applications.
The program uses a range of test criteria defined in co-operation with key industry stakeholders to set a standard for application development on Symbian OS and is gaining widespread market adoption amongst phone makers, mobile operators, developers and application portals. A key example that Symbian Signed continues to gain industry momentum is the recommendation by GSMA MAS (Mobile Application Security Initiative) that its members implement the program.

Carlos Melendo, Handset & Smartcards Senior Manager for Telefónica Móviles España, said: "By supporting the Symbian Signed Program, Telefónica Móviles España will require that all applications are Symbian Signed as a prerequisite for distribution through our channels. Symbian Signed offers an excellent mechanism to build in traceability of applications to their source, removing the 'application source untrusted dialog', and raising the quality of applications for Symbian OS handsets".

Simon Garth, VP Marketing Symbian, said: "We are delighted that Telefónica Móviles España has chosen to fully adopt Symbian Signed for all applications sold though their channels. The program enables network operators such as Telefónica Móviles España to reduce both time and cost of bringing powerful Symbian OS mobile applications to a fast growing smartphone market."

Open OS phones such as those based on Symbian OS are growing in popularity. As of Q2 2005, cumulative shipments of Symbian OS phones reached almost 40 million and year on year phone shipments grew more than 190% compared to the same quarter last year.  According to technology analyst firm Canalys, overall global shipments of smartphones are up 105% year on year in Q2 2005 with Symbian OS emerging as the market leader.

About Symbian Signed

Symbian Signed, the industry-endorsed application signing program that promotes best practise in Symbian OS content and application development. The program tests applications against industry-agreed criteria in support of network operator and mobile manufacturer requirements. Symbian Signed is designed to satisfy mobile developers' needs and ensures a thriving, open market for trusted mobile applications by providing a single, low-cost and unified certification program. The program also delivers developer authentication and anti-tamper security for Symbian OS applications. More than 4300 Symbian native application and content files have reached Symbian Signed status, from over 200 companies.

Symbian Signed

About Symbian Ltd

Symbian is a software licensing company that develops and licenses Symbian OS™, the global open industry standard operating system for advanced, data-enabled mobile phones.

Symbian licenses Symbian OS to the world's leading handset manufacturers and has built close co-operative business relationships with leading companies across the mobile industry.  In the first half of 2005, more than 14.5 million Symbian OS-based mobile phones were sold worldwide to over 200 network operators, taking the installed base of Symbian OS phones to almost 40 million.

Symbian has its headquarters in London, United Kingdom with offices in the United States, Europe (Cambridge, UK and Ronneby, Sweden (UIQ Technology AB), Israel and Asia (Bangalore, Beijing, Seoul and Tokyo).

For further information about Symbian:
http://www.symbian.com/
press@symbian.com

About Telefónica Móviles España

Telefónica Móviles España (www.empresa.movistar.es), the operator of Telefónica Móviles Group in the Spanish market, has 19.4 million customers -at end of June 2005- and a full range of services and applications portfolio that uses the latest mobile technologies, including UMTS. Telefónica Móviles is one of the world's premier mobile carriers and the leader in the Spanish and Portugues-speaking markets,  with operations 15 countries and more than 88 million customers worldwide(at the end of August 2005). Telefónica Móviles shares are quoted on the Spanish markets  and New York Stock exchange, under the ticker symbol TEM. Movistar is the commercial brand for all the companies of the Telefónica Móviles Group  around the world, except in Morocco and Brazil.

Media Enquiries

Anatolie Papas Global PR Officer Symbian Ltd +44 207 154 1383 press@symbian.com

Press Department Telefónica Móviles España +34 680 01 86 00 prensa@tsm.es