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Telemac Granted Additional United States Patent Allowance

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – February 6, 2008 – Telemac Corporation, the global leader in network-edge real-time service control, accounting and billing technologies for the wireless industry, has been awarded an additional patent allowance in the United States.

The United States Patent Office has granted Telemac a patent allowance that covers a method and system to determine a charge for a data communication session between a network and a wireless device. The invention includes a data-rating application that resides in the wireless device. The features of this invention are included in Telemac ABS™ technology.

The allowance should mature into a patent in about 90 days.
With the issuance of this patent and allowances previously announced, Telemac will have 213 patents and patents pending in a total of 41 countries, consisting of: 84 patents and allowances in 32 countries and a further 129 patents pending in 38 countries. Of the total, Telemac will have including 14 patents, one allowance and a further four patents pending in the United States.

Kenin M. Spivak, chairman and CEO of Telemac, said: "This patent allowance demonstrates the steadily increasing strength of Telemac’s global intellectual properties portfolio. This portfolio is valuable in advancing Telemac’s core business and as a basis for regulating the use of, and licensing to other technology and service providers, the network edge billing, accounting and data communications functions owned by Telemac."

Telemac's technology solutions provide unique user and operator benefits such as simplified real-time service control, billing and accounting, international roaming and user-friendly account management tools. Telemac's solutions also generally result in substantial reductions in capital and operating costs when compared to competing solutions.

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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Updated - February 6, 2008