FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday, June 5, 2006

Widevine® Technologies Selected by Pioneer Telephone to Acquire Premium Video-On-Demand Content

Widevine enables new revenue opportunities for Pioneer Telephone

Seattle, Wash. June 5, 2006 –Widevine Technologies, the leading provider of downloadable content protection and digital forensics solutions, announced that Pioneer Telephone Cooperative has fully deployed Widevine Cypher® in order to acquire, protect and deliver secure premium broadcast and video-on-demand content from major studios and broadcasters for its Digital TV service.

Pioneer Telephone is one of the few U.S. carriers to have deployed IPTV as a means to stay competitive and grow its customer base in a large geographic area encompassing 72 towns and 1100 miles of fiber optic cable. With the goal to deploy IPTV quickly and cost-effectively, they assembled a team to research, evaluate and test products in the marketplace that would provide an integrated IPTV solution. As part of this process, Pioneer evaluated three content protection vendors. Ultimately, Pioneer selected Widevine to protect the blockbuster content their customers wanted and would be willing to pay for.

“Choosing Widevine’s solution was a strategic decision because its content protection platform is highly regarded by Hollywood movie studios. This was critical for us to acquire the top-value content we needed from Warner Bros., Fox, Paramount, HBO and others to entice subscribers, differentiate our service from the competition and grow our business,” says Scott Ulsaker, Pioneer’s Video Business Manager. “Also key to our decision was that Widevine can meet our emerging needs as we evaluate other services down the road such as mobile and web-based video delivered to PCs.”

Based on feedback from customers, Pioneer also just launched Widevine encrypted VOD services for three premium broadcast channels--the Golf Channel, Outdoor Life Channel and the Scripps Network.

“Acquiring popular premium content for a compelling customer offer is critical to successful IPTV deployments and Widevine is uniquely positioned to meet Pioneer’s content protection needs as its deployment and services grow,” said Brian Baker, Widevine Technologies CEO.

Pioneer’s Digital TV provides up to 169 channels of high-quality entertainment options, including local, basic, premium and Pay-Per-View movie channels, along with CD-quality music channels.

About Pioneer
Pioneer Telephone is a multi-service communications company with more than 140,000 total customers/members in 30 Oklahoma counties. Serving customers since 1953, Pioneer is the third largest telephone cooperative in the United States. Pioneer provides an array of communications products and services, including local telephone service, digital TV, cellular, high-speed Internet, long distance, Internet, paging, security systems, key system sales/maintenance and directory advertisement. More information is available at www.ptci.com.

About Widevine Technologies, Inc.
Widevine is the leading provider of content protection and forensic watermarking solutions for IP video operators worldwide. Widevine enables telco, cable, fiber, satellite, internet and mobile service operators to generate new revenue opportunities through the secure distribution, identification and tracking of digital content.

Utilizing a combination of downloadable conditional access and digital rights management techniques, Widevine Cypher Suite enables operators to acquire and license premium studio content and, through unique patented technologies, reduce capital and operational expenditures. Widevine Cypher persistently encrypts both digital broadcast and video-on-demand (VOD) content, regardless of video infrastructure, network protocols or compression technologies. An innovator in the industry, Widevine invented the downloadable, solution Cypher Virtual SmartCard™ client which today protects more IP video set-top boxes and consumer electronics devices in the industry than any other vendor.

Widevine is a privately held corporation headquartered in Seattle, Washington, USA, with sales offices in Singapore, United Kingdom and Portugal. Widevine is funded by Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO), Charter Ventures, Constellation Ventures, Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd (DNP), PaceSetter Capital Group, Phoenix Partners, TELUS (NYSE: TU) and VantagePoint Venture Partners.

For more information see Widevine Technologies at www.widevine.com or at Globalcomm, Booth #23055.

Media Contact:
Eric Moser
Ruder Finn Chicago (for Widevine Technologies)
Tel: +1 312 329 3908
mosere@ruderfinn.com

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