RCS Fact June 2013

Industry Snapshot*  9.6 trillion were sent in 2012  28.2 trillion messages are forecast for 2017  Mobile operators are expected to take in a cumulative $1.6bn from RCS service fees between 2012 to 2016 *Sources: Analysys Mason, Infonetics Research, Portio Research

Operators RCS services are live in 9 countries, supported by 14 Operators:  Argentina – Claro (announced May 2013) (joyn)  Colombia – Claro (announced May 2013) (joyn)  France – Orange (announced June 2013) (joyn)  Germany - Vodafone (2012), T-Mobile (Mar 2013) (joyn)  South Korea – KT, LG U+,SK Telecom (2012) (joynT)  Mexico – Telcel (announced Feb 2013) (joyn)  Peru – Claro (announced May 2013) (joyn)  Spain - Movistar, Orange, Vodafone (2012) (joyn)  US – MetroPCS (2012) (joyn)

27 operators in 17 countries have committed to launch RCS/joyn:

Country Operators committed Brazil Claro (America Movil) Chile Claro (America Movil) Croatia T- Mobile Croatia, Vipnet Germany O2 Germany Italy TIM Jordan Zain Mexico Movistar Netherlands KPN, T- Mobile Netherlands, Vodafone Netherlands Poland Orange Poland, Polkomtel, T-Mobile Poland, Play Portugal TMN Romania Orange Romania Saudi Arabia Zain Slovakia Orange Slovakia Switzerland Orange Switzerland, Swisscom, Sunrise Turkey Turkcell, Vodafone Turkey Russia MTS, Vimplecom (Beeline) Russia Kuwait Zain

34 other operators are committed to launch but cannot be named for reasons of commercial confidence.

82 operators in total committed to launch by 2015, which represents an addressable market of ~3 Billion customers.

Devices There are 6 device manufacturers with accredited joyn/RCS natively on either Android or Windows Phone8 platform: HTC, , LG-E, , and .

Device manufacturers are currently enabling around 50 handsets to support joyn as a native client*. (* Public availability dependent upon operator ranging decisions)

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Native RCS devices have been ranged by:

Device Movistar ES Orange ES Vodafone ES Vodafone DE DT DE HTC One S  HTC One X+  HTC Desire X  HTC One SV  LG-U2  LG Optimus L9    LG Optimus L5 II   Nokia Lumia 520  Nokia Lumia 620  Nokia Lumia 720   Nokia Lumia 820   Nokia Lumia 920  S3     Z 

joyn/RCS Downloadable Clients SK Telecom announced that there were over 1.2 million downloads of their joyn client in the 50 days from service launch.

8 downloadable Android and iOS clients from 6 companies have received accreditation. At least an additional 6 companies are actively working on accreditation.

Clients are being developed for additional mobile, tablet and PC platforms, including: Blackberry, Windows and MacOS

Ecosystem The key to success for a strong and sustainable eco-system is scale – this gives confidence to all players. In addition to the 76 operators known to be implementing RCS, there are over 60 industry players actively supporting joyn/RCS. 39 companies from the joyn/RCS ecosystem exhibited at MWC 2013.

Eco-system segment No. of active companies Device Manufacturers (OEMs and ODMs) 10 Independent Vendors 25 Hosted Solution Providers 20 Infrastructure vendors 5 Semiconductor Manufacturers 4

Hosted Solution Providers The first Accreditation Ready status for Hosted Solution Providers was awarded to Newpace on 17th May. 2 more Accreditation Ready submissions are currently being processed.

RCS Specification and Evolution The latest specification Release 5.1 V2.0 was published at MWC 2013. Users testing the new features have reacted very positively, comparing them favourably to the leading alternative internet service offerings.

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Key Feature User comment/observation* Multiple operators/OS Extends reach Multiple devices “Without it you just wouldn’t send as many pictures – too expensive and too much hassle” Group chat store/forward “It will make the experience seamless, just like WhatsApp” Voice/full video over IP “It’s cool to be able to simply ‘upgrade’ a normal call and see the other person!” Integrated messaging SMS and MMS integrated within joyn (Note: Korean operators already offer this) Location share “It’s so much easier than having to find out what street I’m on…” Break out to circuit switched call Offers improved call quality if required

*User comments from research into Blackbird features undertaken by Context Consulting on behalf of the GSMA

RCS Network – The key to future development speed and flexibility APIs – Application Programming Interfaces - are the interface implemented by an application which allows other applications to communicate with it. With openly accessible APIs, web and Internet developers can develop new features quickly that will work in a consistent manner in an RCS context. The GSMA’s development environment, known as the joyn Innovation Accelerator platform, is available to developers offering a live test network facility.

The following lists the APIs available: o RESTful Network API for Image Share V 1.0 o RESTful Network API for Messaging V 1.0 o RESTful Network API for Video Share V 1.0 o RESTful Network API for File Transfer V 1.0 o RESTful Network API for Address Book V 1.0 o RESTful Network API for Chat V 1.0 o RESTful Network API for Presence V 1.0 o RESTful Network API for Notification Channel V 1.0 o RESTful Network API for Third Party Call V 1.0 o RESTful Network API for Call Notification V 1.0 o RESTful Network API for Terminal Location V 1.0 o RESTful Network API for Anonymous Customer Reference Management V1.0 o RESTful Network API for Capability Discovery V1.0

Entries to the GSMA’s competition for developers – the joyn Innovation Challenge – were judged in early February 2013. An overview of the competition entries is as follows:

 Entries - 17 entries from 12 companies  Global reach: included India, Korea, US, Israel, Poland, Spain, Netherlands, Denmark and Austria joyn Innovation Challenge Awards Winner: Vopium – Smart Remittance Description: a money transfer application that easily and securely enables the transfer of money directly from a user’s account to any other user. joyn users get the transfer directly, other users get a special code.

Silver Winner: NeuSoft Mobile Solutions – Family joyn – a family member location app using joyn. Description: Gives family members a simplified phone experience with simple voice or messaging and allows their location to be securely tracked on the web.

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Special Award for Innovation: KT This award was unanimously agreed by the judging panel because of the highly innovative nature of the apps that would excite users, built on core joyn features but not necessarily using the API suites for their development.  Group Call enabled a call with up to 10 other users.  Magic Screen Share enable users to mark up pictures, diagrams etc. in real time and share their annotations and remarks in graphic form  Video share with chat enabled a video share with the ability to add remarks using chat over the live video

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