Telefonica Moviles Espana Relies on Ericsson and Valimo to Deploy Mobile Signature Solution to Address the Needs of Large Corporations.

HELSINKI, Finland, February 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Ericsson Espana and Valimo Wireless have been awarded an important contract with Telefonica Moviles Espana, to provide Valimo's end-to-end mobile signature service infrastructure.

Mobile digital signing applications have become one of the most robust mechanisms for authentication and identification. This fact as well as the availability of cryptographic SIMs, has led Telefonica to launch its new mobile signature service. This new end-user service will initially be targeted at large corporations. Mobile signatures support strong authentication for web logins, remote access and the digital signing of transactions and documents. Telefonica's mobile signatures also support future signature services for internet banking, online purchases and government services.

The Valimo solution has already been commercially deployed by over 40 customers around the world, including leading mobile operators in Finland, Kuwait, Slovenia and Turkey. Telefonica's customer base increases the number of mobile subscribers with access to Valimo's mobile signatures to over 58 million.

Ericsson Espana will act as prime integrator of the complete solution, including first line solution support and life cycle management responsibility. Valimo is providing its end-to-end mobile signature solution including Valimo's Validator MSSP, Messaging Server, Registration Server and the Valimo Mobile Authentication Client (VMAC). Valimo's solution provides Telefonica with standardized signature-enabled SIM cards and independence from third-party over-the-air (OTA) systems.

"Valimo's mobile identity concept is clearly emerging as one of the most promising service offerings to piggy back on a mobile operator's existing customer servicing and SIM logistic processes." Continues Jarkko Elonen, COO at Valimo, "and the beauty of it is that all in-situ phones will support the new services. Generating a digital signature for authenticating yourself or signing documents is as easy as sending a short message."

"This new market is natural fit for Telefonica as they have great trust from their end customers which benefits both them and the organizations starting to use this new service," adds Martin Rintanen, Regional Director at Valimo.

About Valimo

Helsinki-based Valimo Wireless delivers identity management and strong authentication software solutions to mobile operators, corporate customers and financial institutions.

Valimo's solutions are used by more than 40 European and Middle Eastern customers to date, assuring non-repudiation, high data security and high availability for most network infrastructures and end-user devices.

Valimo is growing strongly with offices in Finland, Sweden, Germany and Spain.

For more information, please visit http://www.valimo.com/, or our stand at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona 12-15 February 2007.

CONTACT: Contact: Heli Koenkyto, Valimo's PR - Account Manager, Hill and Knowlton Finland Oy, Tel. +358-9-3486-1247, E-mail: heli.koenkyto@hillandknowlton.fi, Jarkko Elonen, COO, Valimo Wireless, Tel. +358-9-4365-0080