VIA Telecom Joins the Open Handset Alliance

<p>San Diego, California, 6th January 2010 – VIA Telecom, Inc, a leading innovator and developer of CDMA chipsets, today announced its participation in the Open Handset Alliance™ to enhance the mobile experience and extend the reach of 3G communications and entertainment into new markets.</p>
<p>VIA Telecom’s CDMA baseband processors are ideally suited to Android-based handsets, supporting high performance 3G EVDO data functionality within Android, providing a smoother connectivity experience for users. Android is becoming one of the key drivers of 3G adoption, and VIA Telecom chipsets implement the right blend of leading edge communications technologies to enable handset manufacturers to incorporate CDMA into their product line-ups quickly and very cost-effectively.</p>
<p>“The buzz surrounding Android is providing the smartphone and feature phone market with new impetus, and we feel it is important to help bring Android within reach of more consumers and whole new markets by delivering powerful yet highly affordable 3G chipsets and reference designs to handset OEMs that leverage the functionality and usability of Android,” said Ker Chang, CEO of VIA Telecom, Inc. “Joining the Open Handset Alliance provides us with this opportunity to help shape the mobile communications and entertainment market of the future.”</p>
<p>Developed by the Open Handset Alliance (OHA), Android is the first free and open mobile platform. It includes everything a manufacturer or operator needs to build a mobile phone, including an operating system, middleware and key mobile applications. By contributing to the Android platform, VIA Telecom is helping to make it easier for developers to distribute and commercialize their applications.</p>
<p>For more information on the Open Handset Alliance, please visit:
http://www.openhandsetalliance.com.</p>
<p>About VIA Telecom, Inc.
VIA Telecom is a leading innovator and developer of highly affordable 3G CDMA2000® baseband processors used in a wide range of mobile 3G devices spanning voice, data, and GPS-enabled applications, as well as complete handset form factor reference designs and operator customization services. Headquartered in San Diego, California, VIA Telecom has design centers in San Diego and Fremont, California, and Hangzhou, China, and offices in the US, Taiwan, China, Korea and India. For additional information, please visit the website at www.via-telecom.com or send an e-mail to marketing@via-telecom.com.</p>
<p>VIA Telecom PR Contact
International: Richard Brown
Phone: (886)-2-2218-5452 #6201
Fax: (886)-2-2218-5453
Email: RIBrown@via.com.tw</p>
<p>Android and Open Handset Alliance are trademarks of Google Inc. The names of other companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.</p>

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