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Orascom Telecom Selects Ditech Communications' Voice Processing Platform With VQA(TM) to Improve Voice Quality for Its Mobile Subscribers

Posted on: Thursday, 9 February 2006, 09:00 CST

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Feb. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ditech Communications Corporation today announced that Orascom Telecom Holding S.A.E. (OT), a leading mobile telecommunications company in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia, has selected Ditech Communications' Voice Quality Assurance (VQA(TM)) embedded on its QVP platform to deliver improved voice quality to subscribers across its mobile network. Mobilink, a leading GSM operator in Pakistan, and Djezzy, a leading GSM operator in Algeria, are the initial OT networks to deploy Ditech's VQA. These deployments will represent Ditech's largest installations of VQA in these regions and signify acceptance of this powerful voice processing technology to improve call clarity and performance of mobile networks. The deployments upgrade portions of two of OT's largest networks, elevating network performance and customer satisfaction through the use of advanced voice processing technology from Ditech.

"We chose Ditech Communications' Voice Quality Assurance solution to enhance the overall quality of our network while improving our capacity utilization. VQA provides our subscribers with a superior mobile call experience with significant sound quality improvement," said Tamer El Mahdy, Chief Technology Officer of Orascom Telecom Holding. "Ditech's full set of voice quality features, which are designed specifically to improve the sound and clarity of mobile calls, enables us to deliver a high grade of quality and build even greater customer loyalty."

"We are very pleased that Orascom Telecom has selected our VQA solution to enhance voice quality in their mobile network," said Tim Montgomery, president and CEO of Ditech Communications. "Our voice quality solutions are designed to enable our customers to increase the value of their service by providing a superior voice experience. Better service quality means greater customer satisfaction, which can translate into increased market share and additional revenue opportunities."

Ditech Communications Corporation

Ditech Communications Corporation is a global telecommunications equipment supplier for communications networks. Ditech Communications' voice processing products serve the needs of mobile and wire-line operators for circuit and packet based networks. Ditech products include high-capacity voice enhancement and echo canceller solutions that utilize advanced software and digital signal processor (DSP) technology. This combination of software and hardware allows Ditech Communications to deliver Voice Quality Assurance(TM) (VQA(TM)), a robust and cost-effective solution for voice enhancement that includes both noise reduction and echo cancellation to provide improved sound quality on calls made over wireless networks. Ditech Communications' VoIP products combine VQA technology with packet voice processing and security capabilities to enable carriers to deploy end-to-end VoIP services across network security boundaries without requiring network re-architecting. Ditech Communications

(DITC) is listed on the Nasdaq National Market and is headquartered in Mountain View, California (web site: http://www.ditechcom.com/ ).

About Orascom Telecom

Orascom Telecom Holding S.A.E. (Orascom Telecom) is a leading mobile telecommunications company with GSM operations in seven emerging markets in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia, having a total population under license of approximately 460 million with an average mobile telephony penetration of approximately 8 %. Orascom Telecom has more than 30 million subscribers as of January 2006.

Forward-Looking Statements

The statements in this news release regarding the benefits that Ditech customers will obtain from deployment of Ditech's VQA solution are forward- looking statements subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, including the risk that alternative and cheaper voice quality technologies may be developed that become widely deployed, which could decrease the value of Ditech's VQA solution. Other risks relating to Ditech are detailed in the section entitled "Future Growth and Operating Results Subject to Risk" in Ditech Communications' Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended October 31, 2005 (filed December 9, 2005 with the Securities and Exchange Commission).

Ditech Communications Corporation

CONTACT: media, Janine Fogal, +1-650-623-1469, or investors, BillTamblyn, +1-650-623-1309, both of Ditech Communications Corporation

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

Source: PRNewswire-FirstCall

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