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The Sports Network & Contec Announce Expansion of Mobile Sports Services

Posted on: Tuesday, 30 December 2008, 08:00 CST

HATBORO, Pa. and VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Dec. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- The Sports Network (TSN) and Contec Innovations (TSX.V: BUZ.V) jointly announced today the upcoming availability of their new global mobile sports service.

This service is now being readied for launch in early 2009. "As 2008 comes to a close, both TSN and Contec are already engaging partners, customers and sponsors interested in deploying the new mobile services that have graduated from the drawing board to a level of readiness for each participant given their respective role," stated Mickey Charles, President and CEO of TSN. "Dialogue is underway from North America to the Far East as we continue, with Contec, to expand our entry into the mobile community on a world-wide basis."

The new global mobile sports service provides unprecedented mobile access to all things sports. Covering more than 50 sports and hundreds of leagues and events from around the world, this initiative allows mobile users around anywhere to access up-to-date news, photos, results, statistics, live action and more.

Oren Friedman, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development for Contec, added, "Mobile users can play fantasy games for every sport, involve themselves with prediction games, submit commentary and personalize their experiences. Our objective is to provide them, the users, with an all encompassing service, one that can grow with market demands, needs and suggestions. We, TSN and ourselves, see 'mobile connectivity' as having even greater potential than the Internet at this stage and out cooperative involvement and commitment reflects that."

Available via mobile Internet, SMS and MMS, the service has three distinctive audiences in mind at present: mobile operators seeking to enhance their sports offering, mobile service providers that wish to add new services to their portfolios and media companies/brands that sponsor mobile Sports content in their local markets or on a global basis.

"From basketball to soccer, golf to cricket, baseball to tennis, from car racing to horse racing - we have it all," concluded Mr. Charles. "Available in a variety of languages, our service covers the world - hundreds of local soccer leagues, international events, from the biggest names to local champions. Best of all, the new service works on any mobile handset - be it the latest iPhone or what might be described as 'low end phones' which are fairly common in emerging markets."

About The Sports Network

The Sports Network, North America's foremost international real-time sports wire service, furnishes a plethora of content on a 24/7 basis utilizing state-of-the-art technology that sets the tone and standard for the entire industry. Additionally, Sportsnetwork.com delivers proprietary global sports news data to thousands of sites online and, now, to mobile users globally in partnership with Contec Innovations. For more information visit www.sportsnetwork.com

About Contec Innovations

Innovators in mobile technology and services. BUZmob(TM) live mobile services enable mobile operators, media companies and service providers to generate new revenue from dynamic content services that engage mobile audiences worldwide-on every handset and network, everywhere. Contec Innovations (TSXV: BUZ) has the largest portfolio of live news, sports, entertainment and finance mobile content delivered as a full-managed service. Visit www.buzmob.com or call Oren Friedman at 1.604.552.0360. Headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, Contec Innovations (TSXV: BUZ) has a sales and support office in Beijing, China. For more information visit: www.contec.ca

SOURCE The Sports Network

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