WaveMarket’s product suite now available to Aepona’s global carrier customers

BELFAST, United Kingdom and EMERYVILLE, Calif., April 1, 2008  -- Aepona (www.aepona.com), the leading supplier of Telecom Web Services solutions to telecoms operators worldwide, and WaveMarket (www.wavemarket.com), a leader in location- based services, today announced a partnership to provide location-based tracking services for carriers worldwide.

This agreement will enable operators to bring to market WaveMarket's entire product suite, including WaveMarket’s recently-announced Location Privacy Platform, Veriplace™, to their customers quickly and easily, using the Aepona Telecom Web Services platform.

In addition to the Veriplace™ Location Privacy Platform, WaveMarket develops best-of-breed location-enabled applications for both businesses and consumers, including family safety, pet tracking, enterprise tracking, mobile local search and navigation, and friend finder. This partnership will facilitate the rapid expansion of WaveMarket’s services, already deployed on nearly a dozen carriers in North America and Latin America, whilst enabling Aepona’s carrier partners to offer customers these popular location-enabled applications.

“We are delighted to offer WaveMarket’s powerful suite of enterprise and consumer services as part of our Telecom Web Services solution” said Michael Crossey, Aepona’s VP of Marketing. “Our industry-leading platform provides the ideal foundation for WaveMarket’s suite of location applications and allows our carrier customers to offer these valuable location-based services to their users – quickly and easily”.

“Location-based services are extremely popular in North America and we are pleased to be partnering with an industry leader like Aepona to help bring these services to their global carrier customers” said Tasso Roumeliotis, WaveMarket CEO. “Furthermore, Veriplace™ will allow Aepona’s carrier partners to quickly and securely deploy new location applications with other LBS vendors while protecting the security and privacy of their users.”