Sonic Network to Provide Ringtone Technology on the Industry's Most Integrated and Comprehensive GPRS/EDGE Platform for Multimedia Wireless Phones
Pre-integration speeds time to market and lowers production costs

Boston, MA/December 14, 2004 --- Sonic Network, Inc., a world-wide provider of audio synthesis technology to the handheld consumer device and musical instrument markets, announced today that Agere Systems (NYSE: AGR.A, AGR.B), a global semiconductor company, has licensed Sonic’s EAS™ ringtone technology on Agere’s new GPRS/EDGE (Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution) wireless phone reference platform.

As a global leader in semiconductors for GPRS/EDGE and 3G mobile handsets, Agere offers a validated, fully tested integration of EAS that allows handset makers to rapidly accelerate time to market with new phones incorporating the latest MIDI ringtone technology.

“We aim to offer customers the broadest range of multimedia applications within our highly integrated phone platforms and we were very thorough in our investigation of MIDI solutions,” explains Jeremy Curtis, product manager for Agere. “Code size, simplicity of integration, flexibility and most importantly, the high quality wavetables and voice reallocation/optimization scheme made Sonic Network’s solution attractive to us.”

Speaking on the opportunity to be a supplier to Agere, Jennifer Hruska, president of Sonic Network states “Agere has gotten very smart in their new mobile platform designs by designing in scalable audio solutions to meet a wide base of customer demands and phone designs. This is exactly where our EAS technology excels. As a single solution, it offers the ability in to fulfill wide variety of market requirements from small footprint feature phones to smart and regionalized phones.”

Agere’s reference platform is based on the expertise the company built as a leading supplier of GPRS and EDGE solutions and is further strengthened by its relationships with such leading applications providers as Sonic. As a result, a handset maker can rapidly accelerate time to market and volume production whether they are an established handset vendor looking to quickly extend their product portfolio or a new entrant who is unfamiliar with the technology.

About Sonic Network, Inc.

Sonic Network, Inc. provides embedded audio technology and content (music and sounds) that enable high quality, engaging audio and multi-media playback. The company licenses its products in a wide variety of markets including Wireless Devices, Semiconductors, PC Soundcards, Games, and Music Synthesizers. Consumers enjoy crystal clear music and multi-media playback on all devices, despite a particular platform's memory, processing or functional constraints. For this reason, Sonic has gained a well-deserved reputation of providing superb next-generation quality audio.