Tokyo and London, February 9, 2005- NEC Corporation (NEC) announced today that it would demonstrate the latest version of its Location Information System (LIS), which provides the best location services solution for GSM operators and a variety of user-tailored systems, in the 3GSM World Congress 2005 in Cannes, France. The annual exhibition is to take place from 14 to 17 ^th February at the Palais des Festivals et des Congresses.

 NEC will showcase its LIS at 3GSM, providing live demonstration of a mobile navigation service, which can calculate a terminal’s position with high accuracy and plot it on the map shown in the terminal’s browser.
 
NEC's Location Information System is based on highly accurate A-GPS positioning methods. A-GPS stands for Assisted Global Positioning Systems, which uses signals from satellites to calculate the mobile terminal’s position. As the location protocol is handled over the TCP/IP User-plane, various location-based services are available independent of the network infrastructure, giving operators lower cost solutions than other control plane based network solutions. Further advantages include easy and rapid deployment and flexible expandability. Privacy control, high reliability and the advanced nature of the applications development environment make this a very attractive system. NEC’s LIS supports Mobile Location Protocol (MLP), a standard interface between the LIS and location service clients in terminals, which is 　specified by OMA. This is making it easy for applications service providers and content providers to develop a wide range of location service menus.
 NEC's Location Information System meets various accuracy and service covering larger geographical areas for offering services such as local weather forecasts and news services to highly accurate position based services such as personal navigation, rescue services and emergency calls, town-guides and neighborhood amenities finders as well as tracking services for fleet management. This system is also instrumental should a user wish to check the location of a friend or relative and in providing Care and Support services for children, the elderly or the infirmed.
 
The accuracy of the LIS lends itself well to the application of area-sensitive services, such as location-dependent charging or advertising services.
 
NEC is the pioneer of A-GPS solutions and has wide experience in developing location-based service systems for the world’s leading mobile operators worldwide, with a proven contribution to the commercial mobile location network services.
 
Further details regarding NEC's activities at 3GSM World Congress 2005　can be found here:
http://www.nec-3gsm.com/
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<About NEC’s mobile application business>
NEC is a total mobile solutions provider capable of providing solutions from cellular handsets to infrastructure and mobile applications. NEC has been actively expanding its sales in mobile applications, infrastructure and handsets, not only within Japan, but also in overseas markets. The firm has a proven track record of delivering platforms for implementing mobile internet services such as i-mode/WAP2.0, along with location information systems, contents conversion software, mail servers, and the like. NEC’s mobile applications are value-added applications by which, using cell phones, persons anywhere can easily get the information they want and freely participate in their favorite communities and thus live more fulfilling lives. The fundamental concepts behind the applications are “personalize”, “community” and “security.” In the recent years, because of the penetration of camera-equipped cell phones and the introduction of ring tone services for call sender, the keywords “personal” and “community” have assumed greater importance. On the other hand, when introduction of 3G infrastructure and IMS gets going, the changeover to all-IP and broadband multimedia data communications will move into high gear. The predictions are, as a result, that packet-based voice services -- such as VoIP service and PoC (Push to Talk Over Cellular) -- will expand and the integration of voice and data services will accelerate along with the introduction of image distribution services such as cartoons or movies.
 
On the foundation of its Mobile Internet Platform, NEC will aggressively expand sales efforts in its primary products of (i) “Ring back melodies”, in which phone call recipients let call senders hear their favorite music or messages, (ii) “Location information system”, a platform for providing various services based on participant’s location and (iii) “3G/2.5G Mobile Visual Solution” to provide multimedia data such as cartoons, together with its other application software offerings.