Faith Technologies takes on the market of services and multimedia tests for cell phones

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(Free-Press-Release.com) March 9, 2006 -- Paris, March 9th, 2006: Faith Technologies, one of the world�s leading global provider in audio and mobile technology development, is starting 2006 with a new growth strategy in France and in Europe.Faith Technologies is expanding its offer with innovative tests and services.

The French and European mobile phone markets have almost reached their saturation point in terms of penetration by exceeding 70 % of the population. In order to continue with their development, operators can take two significant approaches:

� Develop new service capable applications and technologies
� Improve the quality of the user experience to increase data transaction and raise the ARPU:
Faith Technologies� offering addresses the needs of both strategies. Faith Technologies is the world�s expert in mobile audio experience covering enabling technology, implementation content creation tooling, consulting and support. Not to forget Faith group global entities include many of the main multimedia service providers in various regions, from which Faith Technologies, as a member of the Faith group, accumulates its multimedia distribution service know-how.

Three Major Areas of Expertise:

� Multimedia technology research and development; Terminal embedded solutions, server applications�
� Multimedia related consulting services; Carriers, MVNO, MVNE, Content Providers�
� Device testing: Manufacturers, Carriers, MVNO, MVNE, Content providers

For the three years to come, Faith Technologies will essentially aim at expanding both its consulting and testing activities. Device testing has become crucial as supply and demand are constantly growing in terms of multimedia enabling products and services. Mobile phone manufacturers have to ensure that the products they develop go along with the various multimedia services demanded from the market; as for the operators, they must guarantee that the services provided can function on any cell phone, and with any protocol, and at the same time they will need to target higher data ARPU transaction in order to grow further. Faith Technologies delivers a wide spectrum of advantages that maximize its chances to establish itself on the European market which remains a very dynamic industry.

A technology that adapts to different mobile platforms:

Faith Technologies, designs and implements hardware and software solutions to expand the audio functions of cell phones: polyphonic ring tones, audio clips� This company is with no doubt the world�s expert in mobile audio technology and has developed an � audio engine � that offers multiple rich functions:
� A Synthesizer: A component capable of generating audio signals
� A Wavetable: Short samples are stored, and once combined can be used to recreate a sound generator�s entire spectrum of sounds.

� The synchronization of images, texts and sound effects allowing rich multimedia features such as animated ringing tones, karaoke applications�
� The connection with 3D audio (surround and positioning) effects delivering an incredible experience with games on mobile phones.

For further information please consult www.fr-faith.com
Press contact:
Faith Technologies
Sarah Wanquet s.wanquet@fr-faith.com
T�l : 01 45 02 00 45