Virgin Mobile Wins Best Mobile Advertising Award at 3GSM Submitted By: MUSTARD PR Tuesday, 20 February 2007

Virgin Mobile wins Best Mobile Advertising award at 3GSM Submitted by: MUSTARD PR Tuesday, 20 February 2007

Virgin Mobile wins Best Mobile Advertising award ·Bluetooth hot spots, created and executed by Qwikker, featured at the 2006 V Festival 20.02.07: Virgin Mobile and Qwikker have been crowned winners of the ‘Best Mobile Advertising’ category at the 2007 Global Mobile awards held in Barcelona last week at 3GSM. The campaign beat tough competition from Vodafone, Cingular, FOX Entertainment and many others to take the title at the ‘Mobile Oscars’. Virgin Mobile impressed judges with their Bluetooth hot spots, created and executed by Qwikker, which featured at the 2006 V Festival in Chelmsford, Essex. Nine areas were set up across the festival site with each offering free music downloads of live performances including Morrissey, Kasabian and the Young Knives which had just been heard on stage, demonstrating how great music on your mobile can be. Festival-goers were encouraged to make use of the service through a series of posters, flags and stickers spread across the site, with a further 4,000 texts being sent out letting users know where to pick up free music. The success of the V Festival campaign was incredible with over 30,000 mobiles connecting to the service over the three day period, amounting to 47% of the target audience being reached – a key reason why Virgin Mobile and Qwikker took the crown. The judges commented further on the campaign, saying it was `Neatly composed and well executed – with both brand and user benefit’. Jo Baker from Virgin Mobile said: “We are always looking to offer our customers innovative ways to access the best in mobile entertainment. The Bluetooth activity at V Festival was no exception. By creating the download areas we offered free content and showed customers just how great and unique music on your mobile can be.” James Martin from Qwikker said: “Our work with Virgin Mobile and the award from the GSMA from our industry peers is a clear indication that our channel and execution is first rate. Qwikker's solution is ideal for music venue marketing as it not only capitalises on the context of the environment, but also uses unique technology allowing browsing and downloading of full length mp3s and videos at no cost to consumers.” -ends- For more information, please contact: Virgin Mobile: Virgin Mobile Press Office: 0845 600 6272 or [email protected]

Page 1 Jo Baker: [email protected] or 07941 23300 Henry’s House (Virgin Mobile): Kate Towey: [email protected] or 07734 208981 Richard Tompkins: [email protected] or 0207 291 3031 Qwikker: MUSTARD PR: 01628 502601 or [email protected] About Virgin Mobile: Virgin Mobile is the UK’s largest mobile virtual network operator and uses T-Mobile's network. Since its launch in November 1999, Virgin Mobile has attracted more than 4 million customers. Virgin Mobile is part of Virgin Media. The group is the first to be able to offer `quadruple play’ to customers: mobile and fixed line telephony, broadband internet and television. In the UK, Virgin Mobile phones are available direct on 0845 6000 600; on the web at www.virginmobile.co.uk or on the high street at approximately 5,000 outlets including Virgin Mobile Stores within Virgin Megastores and selected WHSmiths, The Carphone Warehouse, The Link, Phones 4 U, Currys.digital, Comet, Tesco, Asda, John Lewis, Argos, Woolworths, Toys R Us, Ryman, web retailer Dial-a-phone plus hundreds of independent mobile phone dealers and available via Shop Direct/Littlewoods, Grattan and Empire home shopping channels. Virgin Mobile Pay Monthly (contract) is currently available in Virgin Mobile Stores, The Carphone Warehouse, The Link, Phones 4u, at concessions in WHSmith and from www.virginmobile.co.uk Virgin Mobile employs approximately 1,700 staff at three sites, Trowbridge, London and Daventry, and has an outsourced customer service centre operated by approximately 200 staff in Middlesbrough. Since 2000, Virgin Mobile has consecutively won the best customer service award at the Mobile Choice Awards and has been voted one of the UK’s best 25 workplaces in the Financial Times survey for three years running. 2006 also saw www.virginmobile.co.uk voted ‘Website of the Year 2006’. Virgin Mobile is offering its customers 3p per minute Virgin to Virgin voice calls in the UK until March 31st 2007. About Qwikker Qwikker is a local and social content distribution platform for mobile devices that allows the easy and free discovery, downloading, and sharing of content. Qwikker's solution enables companies to more effectively connect with their consumer by creating an interactive experience that delivers tailored, on-demand content which can be downloaded onto mobile devices via all available connections, including Bluetooth, WAP and SMS. The Qwikker platform can also be embedded into home media devices to streamline the transfer of both user generated and published content to and from mobile devices. Qwikker runs the largest direct-to-mobile location content network in the world, with over 700 Bluetooth content distribution points across the US and UK. Brands which have leveraged the Qwikker network include Yahoo!, Channel 4, Electronic Arts, Universal Music, 20th Century Fox, Red Bull, Virgin Mobile, Robbie Williams/ie: music, Nokia and Universal Pictures. Backed by Sequoia Capital and Enterprise Partners Venture Capital, Qwikker has offices in San Francisco and London. www.qwikker.com.

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