Birdstep awarded EasyConnect contract on high-speed mobile broadbandfrom 3 Scandinavia

~ Birdstep has been awarded a contract with 3 Scandinavia to deliver EasyConnect GO and the Device Management Server. The products will be a used as core components in their current market leading mobile broadband campaigns~ Oslo - June 25, 2007 -Birdstep Technology ASA, the leading provider of secure seamless connectivity and mobility software for laptop, PDA's and Smartphones, today received a new order for EasyConnect GO and Device Management Server (DMS) from 3 Scandinavia. 3 will use the Birdsteps products to further enhance the end-users experience of high-speed mobile broadband through a branded and customized 3 connection manager. The DMS will provide advanced provisioning, marketing and over the air roaming control, giving 3 full flexibility and power to support the mass deployment of clients on customers laptops/notebooks. The 3 connection manager will cover high-speed data support for leading USB-modems and PC-cards. Mobile broadband has been 3's most successful service mobile offering during the latest 3 months, resulting in data now representing up to 80% of all the traffic in their mobile network. Birdstep has developed EasyConnect GO, a high-speed connection client designed specifically to embrace this growing market and specially designed for support of leading USB-modems. "Thanks to Birdstep, our customers will have the best available connection manager to connect to the markets best mobile broadband network. In addition, they are providing simplified handling of over the air updates for policies and software, but most importantly was the benefits this gives our customers, said Peter Ramel, CEO of 3 Scandinavia 3 Sweden & Denmark will use the EasyConnect GO product in their mobile broadband offerings utilizing the easy to use USB Cellular Modems. The EasyConnect software will be preinstalled on the USB modem and when the user attaches the USB modem to the computer, the software will be automatically installed. Birdstep will also deliver the Device Management Server giving 3 the flexibility to provision service enhancements and automatic updates directly to their consumers over the air. "USB Modems are currently making high in-roads to the market, being packaged together with aggressive mobile broadband campaigns from operators such as 3. This order recognizes Birdstep EasyConnects continued value in a rapidly expanding mass market. As subscriber numbers quickly grow, deployment control and usability, as provided by Birdstep, will only continue to rise in importance" Said Petri Markkanen, CEO, Birdstep Technology (398 words) For further information, please contact: Petri Markkanen, CEO of Birdstep Technology ASA, phone +46 70 323 33 22 Peder Ramel, CEO, 3 Scandinavia, Mobile: +46 (0)735-333 023, E-post: peder.ramel@tre.se. or Erik Hörnfeldt, Information & PR, 3, Mobile: +46 (0)735-33 74 04, E-post: erik.hornfeldt@tre.se NOTES TO EDITORS About Birdstep (www.birdstep.com) Birdstep Technology ASA is a public company listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange (OSE) under ticker 'BIRD'. The company is headquartered in Oslo, Norway with five wholly-owned subsidiaries: Birdstep Technology AB in Sweden, Birdstep Technology Inc. in Seattle, Birdstep Technology in San Francisco, US, Birdstep Technology in Finland and Birdstep Technology Ltd in Cambridge, UK. Birdstep Technology is a global software development, marketing and sales company offering seamless connectivity and mobility client software for mobile data users on laptops, pocket PC and Smartphones as well as state-of-the-art embedded database technologies. Birdstep has an installed base at more than 50 operators globally including T-mobile Group, Vodafone Group, Orange, TIM, Turkcell, TMN, KPN, Sprint, Telenor and TeliaSonera as well as more than 30 Enterprise Customers including Nordea, Handelsbanken, Ministry of Justice in Finland, Finnish defence force, etc. The company also cooperates with global partners such as Nokia, SonyEricsson, CMG Logica/VMdata, Motorola, Cisco, Intel, Ericsson, Nortel Networks, HP and Fujitsu Siemens Computers. About 3 3-gruppen är världens ledande operatör av mobila bredbandsnät och mediatjänster med drygt 12 miljoner kunder i nio länder. I Sverige och Danmark är 3 ett joint venture mellan Hong Kong-baserade Hutchison-Whampoa Limited (60%) och Investor AB (40%). 3 Skandinavien har även en licens att driva 3G-nät i Norge. För mer information, gå till www.tre.se.