CoreMedia expands in Scandinavia: Aspiro selects CoreMedia for its convergent music platform – Telenor as first client

Hamburg, May 30, 2007 – CoreMedia, the global provider of software solutions for convergent content business, announced today that Aspiro, Nordic market leader for the distribution of mobile content services, has selected CoreMedia DRM to secure their rich media content on its way to consumers.

Aspiro (www.aspiro.com), headquartered in Sweden, creates and supplies mobile entertainment, information and community services to consumers. Aspiro just announced that they will supply the music store on the Norwegian mobile portals of the Nordic telecom group Telenor. In the new music store users can download music to their mobile phones or PCs - protected by CoreMedia DRM. Some 700,000 tracks are available to customers, with this range including music from all the major record companies like Universal, Warner Music, EMI and SonyBMG.

With Aspiro’s services, consumers can watch TV, listen to music, interact in communities and enjoy games and other activities on their mobile phones or on the Internet.

Willms Buhse, Executive Director of CoreMedia comments: “We are thrilled to win Aspiro as a new customer and thereby supporting them in developing new business models for mobile and web. With this new customer and Telenor selecting Aspiro, CoreMedia gains momentum in the Scandinavian market.”

CoreMedia offers Aspiro a state-of-the-art DRM solution with the Windows Media Digital Rights Management suite. This technology provides key tools to launch mobile music offerings based on Windows Media DRM. "Aspiro has a strong focus on full track music services for both mobile and web. We provide our music platform to operators and media partners across the Nordic region and will launch new services for mobile and web shortly. As DRM is an important element of such services we chose CoreMedia as the trusted provider“, states Nils Juell, Head of Music Projects.

CoreMedia pioneers the mobile world with new solutions that enables mobile content business by deploying powerful 3G services. The company is working with the leading players in the telecommunications market for global interoperability to enable new business models in the mobile world, amongst them Deutsche Telekom, debitel, Motorola, Musicload, Nokia, O2, Panasonic, Qualcomm, Samsung, SoftBank, Sony Ericsson, T-Mobile, T-Online, ViVo and Vodafone.