TeleNav Vehicle Manager from Sprint Receives Top Honors at CTIA

Fri Apr 3, 2009 10:13am EDT
 
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OVERLAND PARK, Kan. & SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
Sprint (NYSE:S) and TeleNav are celebrating honors received this week at
International CTIA WIRELESS 2009. TeleNav Vehicle Manager, available now
exclusively from Sprint, received first place at the 4th Annual CTIA Emerging
Technology (E-Tech) Awards in the category of Enterprise and Vertical - General
Business Solution. 

Launched this February, TeleNav Vehicle Manager, powered by Turnpike, combines
vehicle diagnostics and IFTA Fuel Tax filing with GPS-enabled navigation,
tracking, wireless forms and wireless timecards. TeleNav Vehicle Manager helps
companies of all sizes better manage their day-to-day fleet operations, reduce
operating costs and simplify regulatory compliance. 

"We`re honored to be recognized by CTIA, especially in collaboration with a key
mobile applications partner, TeleNav," said Tim Donahue, vice president -
business marketing, Sprint. "We knew this was an innovative solution that filled
a gap in the marketplace. No one else offers this combination of automated
dispatch, navigation, fuel cost reduction and fuel tax reporting for the mobile
environment." 

"We thank the CTIA for recognizing not only the innovation of the solution, but
the value that it brings to our customers," said Ravi Acharya, associate
director of B2B marketing for TeleNav. "TeleNav Vehicle Manager on the Sprint
network is a solution that provides the best of GPS and wireless technology but
at a much lower price point than many traditional, on-board solutions." 

For more information on TeleNav Vehicle Manager, please visit
www.telenavtrack.com. 

About Sprint Nextel

Sprint Nextel offers a comprehensive range of wireless and wireline
communications services bringing the freedom of mobility to consumers,
businesses and government users. Sprint Nextel is widely recognized for
developing, engineering and deploying innovative technologies, including two
wireless networks serving more than 49 million customers at the end of the
fourth quarter 2008; industry-leading mobile data services; instant national and
international push-to-talk capabilities; and a global Tier 1 Internet backbone.
For more information, visit www.sprint.com. 

About TeleNav, Inc.

TeleNav, Inc., a privately-held company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California,
was the first to launch a cell phone GPS system in the United States. Deployed
by 13 carriers in 21 countries, TeleNav is a global leader in wireless
location-based services (LBS). Currently, the company`s solutions are available
in four continents, including North and South America, Asia and Europe. 

TeleNav`s solutions include GPS navigation, Mobile Resource Management (MRM),
social networking and local search. The company`s flagship service, TeleNav GPS
Navigator, offers functionalities comparable to in-car systems and standalone
navigation devices, such as automatically-updated maps and business locations,
full-color 3D moving maps, traffic alerts with one-click rerouting,
location-sharing, business reviews, speech recognition, Wi-Fi hotspot finder,
gas price finder and more. TeleNav also delivers its award-winning navigation
service on the TeleNav Shotgun, a standalone GPS personal navigation device
(PND) tailored specifically for business travelers. TeleNav`s enterprise
application, TeleNav Track, incorporates GPS-enabled tracking, time sheets,
wireless forms and navigation. TeleNav Track is a widely adopted service with
over 9,000 customer organizations using it today. 

TeleNav services are available on more than 500 wireless devices and run on most
major mobile platforms currently available. TeleNav`s partners include Alltel,
AT&T, Bell Mobility, Boost Mobile, China Mobile, deCarta, Ford Motor Company,
Hewlett-Packard, HTC, INRIX, LG, Motorola, NAVTEQ, NII Holdings, Nokia, Palm,
Qualcomm, Research In Motion (RIM), Rogers, Samsung, Sanyo, Sprint Nextel,
T-Mobile Austria, T-Mobile UK, T-Mobile USA, Telcel, Tele Atlas, Verizon
Wireless and Vivo Brazil. 

For more information on TeleNav, please visit www.telenav.com. 

Copyright 2009 TeleNav, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 

"TeleNav," "TeleNav Track," "TeleNav Vehicle Manager," the TeleNav logo, and
"telenav.com" are registered and unregistered trademarks and/or service marks of
TeleNav, Inc. Unless otherwise noted, all other trademarks, service marks, and
logos used in this press release are the trademarks, service marks or logos of
their respective owners. 





Media contacts:
Sprint
Stephanie Greenwood, 913-794-3658
Stephanie.greenwood@sprint.com
or
TeleNav, Inc.
Mary Beth Lowell, 425-531-0122
marybethl@telenav.com

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