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Benefon Receives $10m Order For Twig Discovery

Salo, Finland — February 9, 2007 — Travel Safety Group, based in Florida has placed an order in excess of $10 million USD for Benefon’s Twig mobile navigation device to support the newly launched Travel Safety GEOS System. The GEOS System is a range of travel safety and travel security services, which offer travel safety and comprehensive travel security by using Benefon’s GPS technology. Benefon’s devices allow Travel Safety Group (TSG) and its GEOS program to offer an entire range of services.

The services available on the new GEOS System include hostage survival training and critical alert messages, which notify travellers of any emerging threat to health or life in the area they are currently in. Travellers are advised if they are about to enter a dangerous part of a foreign city and are also provided with a security assessment and notified of particular hazards when visiting another country.  The GEOS System also offers a broad range of corporate security services, including medical and political evacuation thus providing unsurpassed protection across the globe.

Benefon’s GPS mobile phones will be used to support the GEOS operations in the United States. The TWIG Discovery and the new TWIG GPS Locator have been integrated into the patented GEOS System thus enabling GEOS to deliver its extensive range of travel safety and security services to both domestic and international travellers with pinpoint accuracy helping to keep them safe and secure.

"Benefon is offering a new direction in the security market. It is based on the integration of our many years of expertise in the GPS industry and best practices from the security industry," said Tomi Raita, CEO of Benefon. "Our mobile location devices offer a radical departure from existing location systems by enabling organisations to bring all that functionality together in a convenient format. Customers' response to the Benefon product family has been extremely positive."

Through a unique combination of Benefon technology and world class intelligence and security services, GEOS is able to monitor the location of an individual to an accuracy of fifteen feet almost anywhere in the world. In the event of an emergency situation, the press of a single button on the TWIG Discovery or on the GPS Locator will automatically send a distress signal (together with exact GPS coordinates) to the GEOS Command and Control Centre in Houston. Here, on GEOS’ Global Emergency Monitoring system, digital maps display the exact location of the individual together with latitude and longitude. Trained operators are ready to immediately swing into action to provide assistance 24/7, 365 days a year.

One of the unique features of the GEOS/Benefon tracking and locating system is the facility for corporations and family to locate individuals from their own personal computers if they have been supplied with the correct codes to access the system.

Peter Chlubek, Chairman of TSG stated that, “With our travellers now able to be equipped with a GPS phone that is registered with our patented GEOS System, we can ensure that our members receive all information that is relevant to wherever they may be on the planet. Our GEOS Command and Control Center, through our Global Emergency Monitoring system, can notify up to one million members per hour. We call it our GEM. It’s an immensely powerful tool in providing proactive emergency information that helps keep our members safe”.

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About Travel Safety Group – “We’re there when you need us…”

Established in 2004, Travel Safety Group has become one of the most effective travel safety and travel security organizations in the World. Its GEOS programs offer an entire world of best of breed services that encompass security, safety and reliable communications for corporations as well as domestic and international travellers. The GEOS program is delivered through a fusion of state-of-the-art technology with the unparalleled experience of the very best and most respected specialists in the fields of international, personal and corporate protection and communications. GEOS centres are based in Florida, Houston Texas, the United Kingdom, Melbourne (Australia) and Perth (Western Australia). Please see www.geosalliance.com

About Benefon
Benefon is a leading developer of mobile GPS-enabled satellite navigation devices and solutions. Founded in Finland in 1988, Benefon has developed a comprehensive range of hand-held, in-vehicle and machine-to-machine (M2M) mobile and back-end software applications, hardware and components, for use by network operators, enterprises and mobile consumers alike.

Benefon’s latest innovation is the TWIG Discovery personal navigation device. The evolution of satellite navigation into personal navigation, TWIG combines in a single handset the portability and ease-of-use of the mobile phone with the functionality and responsiveness of true satellite navigation. Navigate Communicate Locate - with TWIG, the mobile user can communicate and interact with their surroundings on a new level, via innovative GPS-enabled navigation, data and location services.

For more information please visit: www.benefon.com .