VeriSign Announces Digital Content Services Platform at CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment


New Offerings Enable Creation, Delivery and Monetization of Interactive Consumer Experiences Unmatched in the Marketplace

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 13 -- VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ:VRSN), the leading provider of intelligent infrastructure for the networked world, today announced its new Digital Content Services (DCS) platform. VeriSign has integrated its market leading intelligent applications and infrastructure into this new global solutions offering.

"By harnessing our traditional strengths in Internet and wireless infrastructure, and combining them with new expertise across mobile and broadband delivery systems, VeriSign is well positioned to help our customers deliver on the promise of the Any Era," said Stratton Sclavos, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of VeriSign. "As our recent announcement with News Corporation indicates, our advanced mobile and broadband services are powering the most innovative and interactive experiences for consumers around the world."

Yesterday, VeriSign and News Corporation (NYSE:NWS) announced a joint venture to form the world's largest direct to consumer provider of mobile entertainment. News Corp.'s Mobizzo unit and VeriSign's wholly-owned Jamba subsidiary will combine to create the new company. VeriSign and News Corp. believe the joint venture combines the most technologically advanced platform in the category with market-leading mobile content production and delivery capabilities with an immediate capability to serve 30 territories with a potential reach of more than a billion mobile subscribers.

The new company will immediately become the largest customer for VeriSign's Digital Content Services (DCS) platform, which specializes in providing intelligent infrastructure, applications and connectivity solutions to enable the delivery of rich content over mobile and broadband networks. Leading mobile operators, portals, media companies and consumer brands around the world leverage the DCS platform to power their interactive entertainment experiences.

"The mobile delivery space is overcrowded and ripe for consolidation," said Roger Entner, Vice President for Wireless Development, Ovum. "VeriSign's recent acquisitions are a logical development and for VeriSign it is another step to become the leading end-to-end provider of wired and wireless connectivity. Progressively, VeriSign's strategy of acquiring best of breed applications is being unveiled and VeriSign is rapidly becoming the 800 pound gorilla of wireless and wireline commerce, content and connectivity. VeriSign's leadership has the vision to ensure the right pieces are there to build a dominant provider, the challenge is to make it all fit together seamlessly."

The VeriSign Digital Content Services platform includes:

-- VeriSign(R) Interactive Application Services -- mobile technology solutions designed for consumers and enterprises that offer the ability to manage and track interactive mobile campaigns, including participation TV, under-cap and on package promotions, SMS and MMS Alerts, Picturemail and MMS Applications;

-- VeriSign(R) Intelligent Portal Services -- enables the next-generation mobile marketplace through customer branded mobile content and application storefronts including rich media WAP and web experiences;

-- VeriSign(R) Mobile Delivery Services -- allows companies to deliver, manage, and bill for dynamic mobile content globally, across and between all major carrier networks;

-- VeriSign(R) Broadband Delivery Services -- empowers content providers to offer on-demand access to DVD quality video while protecting digital rights and preventing network congestion through the use of legitimate peer-based delivery technology.

"This Digital Content Services platform brings new capabilities to VeriSign's existing intelligent infrastructure solutions, making it possible for our customers to expand their brand and engage consumers in new and valuable ways," said Jeff Treuhaft, senior vice president, VeriSign Communications Services. "Whether it is for interactive marketing, entertainment or business, our solutions are easily implemented, cost effective, and proven in the marketplace."

Leading companies already using VeriSign's DCS include Sprint, Cingular, Fox, Yahoo and eBay.

For more information on VeriSign's digital content offerings, please visit: www.verisign.com/products-services/communications-services/content-and- application-services/index.html .

About VeriSign
VeriSign, Inc. operates intelligent infrastructure services that enable and protect billions of interactions every day across the world's voice and data networks. Additional news and information about the company is available at www.verisign.com .

CONTACT: Lisa Malloy, +1-202-270-7600, or emalloy@verisign.com, or Allison Flerl, +1-650-452-4867, or aflerl@verisign.com, both of VeriSign Media Relations

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