ITNet announces partnership to resell SmartNumbers and extend service offerings around SmartNumbers solutions

London, England. January 2004

ITNET today signed an agreement to co-operate with SmartNumber's network delivered service on demand - SmartNumbers.

ITNET deployed SmartNumbers technology for its own staff  and now has over 1,000 staff utilising the service. Building on this experience, it intends to offer SmartNumbers as a service to its customers. SmartNumbers avoids the need for customers to allocate resources to purchase and deploy their own systems.

"The need to protect capital budgets, as well as the move to more flexible work styles, makes SmartNumbers a natural solution for our larger customers" said John Burton, Solutions Architect, ITNET. "A key benefit of SmartNumbers is its ability to simplify the migration to IP Telephony while protecting users and network managers from any visibility of the underlying technology".

Under this agreement, ITNET will become a reseller and service partner for the entire range of SmartNumbers solutions, in addition to becoming a valued customer of SmartNumbers.

About ITNET

ITNET is a leading IT, business consulting and business process outsourcing company. ITNET's commercial division focuses on financial and membership services and the transportation and utilities sectors. Its public sector division is a major player in the local government outsourcing market and the leader in providing electronic service delivery through its unique OneGov suite of solutions. With large-scale programme capability, ITNET also provides services to central government customers. In addition, ITNET has been providing Business Process services to the public sector since 1994. ITNET's strength is its ability to draw on its proven expertise of select markets and business processes to provide high-level business transformation solutions through the implementation and support of a client's technology and processes. In 2002, turnover increased to £179 million. ITNET employs more than 2,200 people throughout the UK. ITNET's customer list is impressive. Those that can be listed in the commercial marketplace include Charles Schwab Europe, Equitas, Transport for London, Powergen, Bristol Water, Crossrail, The Law Society, Centrica, Staffordshire Building Society, Credit Lyonnais and FirstGroup. In the public sector, customer include: Birmingham City Council, the London Boroughs of Southwark and Haringey, Colchester Borough Council, South West Regional Development Agency and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. ITNET is also delivering application solutions in areas such as SAP, e-procurement, e-commerce, CRM, internet and intranet technologies, change management and web-hosting. For more information, please go to www.itnetplc.com