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Kineto's Smart Wi-Fi Application on 15 Additional Android Smartphones in Q2 2011

Orange, T-Mobile use application to expand service offerings for improved customer coverage, data offload

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Milpitas, Calif., August 9, 2011

Kineto Wireless, the key innovator and leading supplier of Smart Wi-Fi solutions for mobile operators, today announced its Smart Wi-Fi Application has been pre-loaded on an additional 15 Android smartphone models launched by wireless operators in Q2 2011.

Kineto also announced additional Q2 achievements for its Smart Wi-Fi technology that include:

  • Orange UK has expanded its Signal Boost service to offer the following nine smartphones: Samsung Galaxy S II and Galaxy Ace; the LG Optimus Me; HTC Wildfire S, Cha Cha and Desire S; along with the Orange-branded Barcelona, Monte Carlo and Stockholm.
  • T-Mobile USA introduced six new Wi-Fi Calling-enabled smartphones, including the Samsung Dart™, Samsung Gravity™ SMART, Samsung Exhibit™ 4G; HTC Sensation™ 4G, T-Mobile® G2x™ with Google™ and the T-Mobile® Sidekick® 4G, providing customers with enhanced network coverage and the ability to experience high-quality voice and data on their home Wi-Fi networks.
  • ZTE will now pre-load Kineto's Smart Wi-Fi Application onto select new Android-based smartphones.
  • Huawei will now pre-load Kineto's Smart Wi-Fi Application onto select new Android-based smartphones.
  • Kineto's Smart Wi-Fi Application for Android now comes pre-loaded on more than 30 smartphones models from the industry's leading manufacturers, including HTC, Huawei, LG, Motorola, Samsung and ZTE.

"Based on new relationships with leading smartphone companies and growing service offers from operators globally, Q2 2011 has been a tremendous growth period for the deployment and success of Kineto's Smart Wi-Fi Application," said Mark Powell, vice president and co-founder of Kineto Wireless. "There is no other solution available today that offers the offload benefits to operators and the coverage advantages to subscribers in such a seamless way."

Kineto's Smart Wi-Fi Application is the industry's only smartphone application that delivers an intelligent offload solution while improving coverage using existing Wi-Fi access points. The application provides users with the identical mobile voice, SMS and data service experience over Wi-Fi as they receive on the outdoor cellular network.

About Kineto Wireless, Inc.
Kineto Wireless is the key innovator and leading supplier of Smart Wi-Fi solutions for mobile operators. The company's solutions enable mobile operators to turn more than 200 million existing public and private Wi-Fi access points into seamless extensions of their mobile networks. With Smart Wi-Fi, subscribers can receive all their mobile services over Wi-Fi instead of the macro network, boosting indoor coverage and improving the mobile data experience, while securely offloading the mobile network. The company's Smart Wi-Fi products and services, based on the 3GPP UMA/GAN standard, have been deployed by mobile operators around the world. Kineto customers and partners include HTC, Huawei, LG Electronics, Motorola, Orange, RIM, Rogers Wireless, SFR, Samsung, T-Mobile USA and ZTE. For more information, please visit kineto.com, and follow Kineto at twitter.com/kinetowireless.

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Steve Shaw
Kineto Wireless
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Richard White
AxiCom PR for Kineto
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richard.white@axicom.com