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MTS Communications, Manitoba's Leading Wireless Provider, Expands Their Wireless Messaging Solutions and Selects Intellisync

Posted on: Wednesday, 29 June 2005, 09:00 CDT

SAN JOSE, Calif. and WINNIPEG, Manitoba, June 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Intellisync Corporation , a leading developer and marketer of wireless email and mobile software, announced today that it has been selected by MTS Communications as the mobile carrier's email and synchronization platform. MTS Communications will deploy Intellisync Wireless Email, part of the Intellisync Carrier Platform, to keep the palmOne Treo(TM) 600, Audiovox 6600, and other popular devices in sync with groupware applications such as Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes.

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MTS Communications decided to replace its existing wireless software provider and install the Intellisync Carrier Platform in part to expand their wireless email and PIM (Personal Information Management which includes calendar and contact information) services to a broader market. The integration of the Intellisync Carrier Platform into MTS Communication's product family is part of the mobile carrier's strategy to offer the widest range of wireless and enterprise mobilization capabilities to its subscriber base.

By choosing the Intellisync Carrier Platform, MTS Communications will have the capability to easily expand the application set to include file and data synchronization capabilities. "Meeting the evolving needs of our customers is our key priority," says Kelvin Shepherd, chief technology officer, MTS Allstream, Inc. and chief operating officer, MTS Communications. "Intellisync offered the right fit to enable the expansion of our wireless messaging solutions so we can continue to meet the dynamic needs of our customers," he says.

The Intellisync Carrier Platform launched by MTS Communications will keep smartphone users up to date with their groupware-based email, calendars, contacts, tasks and notes. Intellisync software can be quickly downloaded and installed to push email and PIM data in Microsoft Outlook(R) or Lotus Notes(R) to nearly any mobile device. Intellisync Wireless Email acts as an agent to enable two-way real-time synchronization of email, as well as calendars, contacts, tasks and other information. The solution can be easily configured to monitor a single user's mailbox or entire workgroups from any PC in the office.

"For wireless email and PIM, every open data-enabled device offered on the MTS network will be 'Powered by Intellisync'," explained Clyde Foster, chief operating officer of Intellisync. "We are very excited about being selected by MTS Communications. This win is particularly telling of a recent trend in the industry: carriers are reevaluating their earlier mobile platform installs with the early software start-up ventures and are looking to upgrade their mobile services from clear leaders who can scale and deliver. Intellisync will now enable MTS Communications to provide wireless services that its entire customer base can use -- from independent contractors to large enterprises."

Intellisync Wireless Email is a hosted solution that can be easily installed and deployed by an individual or workgroup behind the corporate firewall. The solution is built on a highly secure, fully-redundant network architecture that is designed to minimize downtime and maintain performance at a high level. MTS Communications will sell the Intellisync Wireless Email solution directly through its sales channels to customers in all the markets it serves.

ABOUT INTELLISYNC CORPORATION

Intellisync Corporation is a leading provider of wireless email and mobile software to large enterprises, mobile operators, software providers and device manufacturers. Intellisync has won the mobility industry's top awards by providing seamless synchronization, secure wireless email, device control and mobility management software that connects nearly every device, data source and application available. The world's largest corporations have selected Intellisync as their mobility solution standard, including America Online, Credit Agricole, Domino's Pizza, Guidant, Microsoft, NTT DoCoMo, Oracle | PeopleSoft, Pfizer, Sprint, Target, T-Mobile, Union Pacific, Verizon Wireless and Yahoo! For more information, please visit http://www.intellisync.com/.

ABOUT MTS

MTS Communications is a division of Manitoba Telecom Services Inc. (MTS), Canada's third-largest national communications provider, with more than 6,600 dedicated employees focused on delivering outstanding value to its customers. Seamlessly blending innovative solutions and world-class technology, MTS connects its customers to the world. Through its Manitoba operations, MTS serves residential and business customers in the province, with a full suite of wireline voice, data services, wireless, and MTS TV services. MTS's Allstream division serves national business customers, with a world-class portfolio of connectivity, infrastructure management and information technology services. MTS has an extensive national broadband fiber optic network spanning more than 24,300 kilometers that provides international connections through strategic partnerships and interconnection agreements with other international service providers. MTS's common shares are listed on The Toronto Stock Exchange (trading symbol: MBT). MTS's Web site is located at http://www.mts.ca/.

LEGAL DISCLOSURE

Forward-looking statements in this news release are based on current expectations and beliefs and are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include risks associated with uncertainties related to the effect of continued weakness of general economic factors on the overall demand for Intellisync's products and services, the timing of market adoption and movement toward mobile device management solutions and data synchronization solutions, margin erosion, market shrinkage, economic uncertainty related to terrorism and conflict in the Middle East and elsewhere in the world, timely introduction, availability and acceptance of new products, the impact of competitive products and pricing, as well as additional risk factors, as discussed in the "Risk Factors" section of Intellisync's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended July 31, 2004 and Intellisync's quarterly reports filed from time to time with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Intellisync disclaims any obligation to update any forward-looking statements as a result of developments occurring after the date of this press release.

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Intellisync Corporation

CONTACT: Shauli Chaudhuri of Intellisync Corporation, +1-408-321-3835,or shaulic@intellisync.com; or Wendy Shupenia of Manitoba Telecom ServicesInc. (MTS), +1-204-941-8576, or media.relations@mts.ca

Web site: http://www.mts.ca/

Web site: http://www.intellisync.com/

Source: PRNewswire-FirstCall

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