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BULL AND TELEMAC FORM STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP

Bull to Manage Implementations of Telemac Prepaid Technology® for Real-Time Service Control, Payment, and Related Services

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – March 20, 2007 – Bull (Euronext Paris: BUL.PA) and Telemac Corporation, the global leader in network-edge real-time accounting and billing technologies for the wireless industry have entered into a multi-year teaming agreement pursuant to which Bull will participate in marketing, managing and supporting implementations of Telemac Prepaid Technology® in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. This strategic partnership is expected to offer Bull’s clients access to Telemac’s innovative solution for pre-paid billing and to offer Telemac’s licensees access to Bull’s full range of integration and support capabilities.

This strategic partnership agreement is expected to significantly extend the reach and appeal of Telemac’s products and services.

“We have chosen Telemac as an innovative partner to integrate the management of pre paid accounts in our solutions for wireless operators” said Jean-François Leprince-Ringuet, Director of Bull Telecommunications & Media. “We consider that Telemac gives us the opportunity to offer newly minded services to our customers, while drastically decreasing CAPEX, when compared with a classical IN solution. As a global integrator, we are very pleased to offer our clients access to the Telemac advanced technology.”

Telemac Chairman and CEO Kenin M. Spivak said: “We consider Bull as one of the leading integrators of innovative, agile and robust solutions for the wireless industry in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Telemac’s partnership with Bull is a significant milestone in delivering Telemac’s solution to network operators, MVNOs and other resellers throughout that region. We look forward to working closely with Bull to deliver enhanced products and services for the wireless industry.”

Telemac Prepaid Technology® is Telemac’s patented state-of-the-art real-time service control platform for prepaid wireless services. Telemac Prepaid Technology® enables each wireless device to securely monitor the value of all voice and data calls, charge usage values against the customer’s credit balances in real-time, and bar calls when a customer reaches his or her credit limit, among other features. Unlike typical network-centric solutions, the intelligence to meter, rate, bill, settle and collect resides in Telemac’s patented IMA-Module® software within the wireless device or SIM.

Telemac Prepaid Technology® has been used by 25 million customers receiving wireless services in Europe, the United States, Latin America and China. Telemac’s licensees include leading mobile phone and SIM manufacturers and wireless operators on four continents.

About Bull, Architect of an Open World™
As one of the leading European IT companies, Bull delivers open, flexible and secure information systems. The group helps public and private sector customers transform their information systems, applying its know-how and expertise in three main areas:

  • Capitalizing on its extensive mainframe experience, Bull designs and produces robust, innovative and open servers, based on industry-standard technologies;
  • Building on its alliances with leading ISVs and long-standing involvement with Open Source, Bull develops and implements flexible and interoperable application infrastructures which give business processes the freedom to evolve;
  • Bringing together recognized expertise in end-to-end IT security, Bull secures data and exchanges that are so critical in preserving customers’ business integrity.
Bull has a particularly strong presence in the public, healthcare, finance, telecommunications, manufacturing and defense sectors. Its distribution network and business partners cover more than 100 countries worldwide. For more information about Bull visit: http://www.bull.com.

About Telemac:
Telemac Corporation is the global leader in advanced network-edge real-time accounting, billing, and payment processing technologies for the wireless industry. The Telemac Advantage® solution includes a real-time prepaid billing system and adjunct systems enhancing BSS/OSS for prepaid and post-paid voice and data services operating on 2G, 2.5G, and 3G networks. The Telemac SCPEdge™ solution provides real-time network-edge benefits for online charging billing platforms. Telemac technology is protected by worldwide patents and is licensed to wireless operators on five continents, five of the top six handset manufacturers and three of the top four SIM manufacturers, among others. More than 25,000,000 Telemac-enabled® mobile phones have been sold worldwide. For more information, visit www.telemac.com.

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Further information, contact:

Telemac Corporation
For Telemac Sales Worldwide: sales@telemac.com

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