Sorenson Communications Now Offers SIPRelay Mobile for BlackBerry Smartphones

SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sorenson Communications™, the nation’s leading provider of Video Relay Services for deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals who use American Sign Language to communicate, today announced the launch of SIPRelay™ Mobile for BlackBerry^® smartphones from Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM) (TSX: RIM).

SIPRelay Mobile, which works seamlessly with the company’s current SIPRelay service, streamlines calling and enables deaf and hard-of-hearing users to place free calls while on the go to any hearing telephone user in the United States and its territories. Users can place wireless calls from their call history list and from their BlackBerry smartphones’ address book. Calls are quickly relayed through a network of text-to-speech Communication Assistants (CAs), who are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

“We are pleased to be able to offer this powerful and flexible mobile communication tool to deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals,” said Pat Nola, President and CEO of Sorenson Communications. “SIPRelay Mobile for BlackBerry smartphones make it easier for users to connect to the SIPRelay service. It is our goal to continue to create innovative solutions that provide communication options for the deaf and hard-of-hearing community.”

To place a SIPRelay Mobile call, a deaf or hard-of-hearing user first downloads the free application from www.siprelay.com/download using his or her BlackBerry^® browser (or to a PC for later installation on the BlackBerry smartphone). The individual then enters the number of the person he or she wishes to call on the BlackBerry smartphone and types in a message on the “chat” screen. A professional Sorenson CA receives the message, contacts the hearing telephone user, and reads the message to that person. As the hearing telephone user responds, the CA types out the reply and dialog flows back and forth fluidly between the caller and the hearing person.

About Sorenson Communications

Sorenson Communications^™ (www.sorenson.com) is a provider of industry-leading communications services and products. The company’s offerings include Sorenson Video Relay Service (Sorenson VRS^®), the highest-quality video interpreting service; the Sorenson (VP-100^® and VP-200^®) videophones; Sorenson IP Relay^™ (SIPRelay), enabling text-to-speech relay communication; and Sorenson Video Remote Interpreting^™ (VRI), a fee-based remote interpreting service.

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