T-Mobile, Deutsche Telekom's global mobile communication division, has selected nGame's Java QuickStart Program as the cornerstone of its launch of mobile Java gaming throughout Europe. The two-year deal sees nGame shipping 120 J2ME games, designed for a wide variety of Java-enabled handsets, which T-Mobile will distribute in Austria, Germany, and the United Kingdom. In addition, T-Mobile will also be using nGame's Java Games Store platform WOTAN as their content delivery platform at launch in the UK.

"This is by far the largest and most significant content deal yet seen anywhere in the mobile games industry," said nGame CEO, John Brimacombe

"WOTAN is nGame's next generation enterprise level platform to deliver mobile entertainment content," said nGame CTO, Dave Lloyd. "This will be the first ever-live deployment of a vending machine for micro-Java games. nGame QuickStart is as simple to use as a real-world vending machine, making the dispensing of Java games easy and immediate."

A leading aggregator and publisher of wireless content, nGame was the first company in the world to demonstrate multi-player WAP games with AT&T in 1998. Outside of Java, the company currently has over seventy other entertainments available across a number of technologies. (WAP, SMS and Ditv) which are widely distributed, with over 10 million games played to date through a number of partners throughout North America, Europe, and Asia, including Sprint PCS, AT&T Wireless, T-Mobile, Mviva, Verizon Wireless, Orange, and Vodaphone.

The nGame Java QuickStart Program offers a one-stop solution to the launch of micro-Java gaming. Its plug-and-go infrastructure service allows carriers to immediately get into the business of offering Java games. The program includes a carrier-grade Over-the-Air (OTA) provisioning server (WOTAN) built to integrate easily with the most fragile of networks and systems.

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