Navigation on Your Mobile Phone: Available Now! Tele Atlas and Wayfinder Provide Powerful off-Board Navigation Solution: World's First!

    GENT, Belgium--Feb. 11, 2003--Tele Atlas and Wayfinder have joined forces to provide the world's first powerful off-board, up-to-date navigation solution. Based on Tele Atlas digital maps, it enables both in-car and pedestrian navigation for mobile phones. The user enters the destination using the phone's keypad, or calls the service provider, or logs onto his personal navigation page on the Internet. It takes only a few seconds to automatically download the route either over existing GSM/GPRS or future 3G networks. Voice instructions, pictures and maps guide the user as he drives or walks.
    Not only is the interface extremely user-friendly but the system also works throughout Europe and North America. A Nokia 60 Series phone (Models 7650 or 3650) and a Bluetooth-GPS antenna is all the equipment you need to run this innovative application.
    " Wayfinder(TM) combined with Tele Atlas maps is a very good example of the powerful applications you can develop for the Nokia 60 Series phones. With this product, both users and mobile operators can now take full advantage of location-based services ", says Tapio Mansikkaniemi, Service enabler manager, Nokia Mobile Phones.
    The powerful Internet-based Wayfinder server software calculates thousands of routes and searches per second. Accurate, complete, and up-to-date Tele Atlas maps including points of interests such as hotels or restaurants as well as company information and real-time traffic information are all stored on this server.
    Wayfinder Systems AB is a global provider of wireless navigation, mapping and traffic information services and technologies for telecom operators, car manufacturers, fleet management companies, Internet Service Providers and information service providers. The Wayfinder Systems solutions are based on the flexible and scalable server architecture that performs ultra-fast and optimal searches, based on personal preferences, actual journey time and traffic situation. The server platform also provides a comprehensive XML API for an easy and seamless integration into other LBS systems and business applications. For more information visit: www.wayfinder.biz.
    Tele Atlas is the worldwide leader in the development of state-of-the-art geographic databases. It has the largest portfolio of the most highly detailed and positionally accurate digital maps of both Europe and North America, covering around 343 million inhabitants in 18 European countries and providing 100% coverage of the whole of North America. Visit www.teleatlas.com for the latest Tele Atlas products and services.