31 October 2005

GPXS and E-Plus announce Strategic Agreement – GPXS to provide BlackBerry Support Services to E-Plus customers throughout Germany



GPXS Inc. and E-Plus today announced a strategic agreement in which GPXS will provide support across Germany for E-Plus’ customers of Research In Motion®’s (RIM®) BlackBerry solution. GPXS adds E-Plus to the expanding group of carriers and enterprises for which it provides BlackBerry support and applications. E-Plus offers BlackBerry products, BlackBerry Enterprise Servers™ for corporations and BlackBerry Internet Service™ for individuals and small-to-medium sized businesses and retail customers.

GPXS is fielding a growing demand by carriers for assistance in providing BlackBerry support services and applications. The relationship with E-Plus reflects GPXS’ successful experience in supporting BlackBerry for other major European carriers including KPN, Orange NL, BASE, Proximus and Mobistar. GPXS also provides BlackBerry support, training and applications for large enterprises and small-to-medium-sized businesses.

“We are very pleased to assist E-Plus with support for its expanding customer base and portfolio of BlackBerry products and services in Germany,” said Jerome Mol, CEO of GPXS. “GPXS is expanding rapidly to provide services, training and applications to the rapidly growing community of mobile professionals using BlackBerry,” he said.

“E-Plus chose GPXS to support its BlackBerry program across Germany because of its long experience in BlackBerry solutions,” said Thorsten Dirks, Chief Officer Innovation, IT and Operations of E-Plus. “With GPXS’ portfolio of services, E-Plus will be able to provide even more customers with BlackBerry services,” Thorsten added.


About GPXS
GPXS is a global software company delivering mobile enterprise solutions and BlackBerry expertise, to maximize BlackBerry investments. Condor Mobile Enterprise Solutions include both BlackBerry management tools and productivity applications that help manage, deploy and control BlackBerry environments and increase BlackBerry productivity. GPXS' enterprise services include managed services to support managing BlackBerry Enterprise Server(s); hosted BlackBerry products for SME customers of mobile operators; and professional services including BlackBerry training, support, and implementation services. GPXS was established in 2002 and has offices in Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Ghent, Limerick, London, Madrid, Mountain View and New York. GPXS is a BlackBerry Alliance Member and strategic partner to multiple mobile operators and global enterprises. For more information, visit: www.gpxs.net.


About E-Plus
With over 11.4 million customers E-Plus is the third-largest mobile network operator in Germany. The company follows a strategy of profitable growth and frequently launches important market innovations. E-Plus was the first company to introduce private customer tariffs, one-second units, vanity numbers or prepaid cards on the German market. With the launch of BASE, Simyo and Ay Yildiz E-Plus is developing from a single brand to a brand group. The flat rate brand BASE for average and frequent users with mobile phone contracts and the mobile discount brand Simyo for low usage callers with prepaid cards complement the full range for E-Plus private and business customers. Ay Yildiz is the first mobile brand for the Turkish community in Germany. For more information, visit: www.e-plus.de.


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