TouchTunes Debuts myTouchTunes Mobile Android app, Offers First Look at New LTE-Connected Network, at 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show

LAS VEGAS, NV –TouchTunes Interactive Networks today announced that it will leverage the Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Mobile Broadband network in its fleet of Digital Jukeboxes nationwide. TouchTunes Interactive Networks is the largest interactive out-of-home entertainment network in North America, providing entertainment and marketing solutions to more than 45,000 bars and restaurants.

Verizon’s 4G LTE Mobile Broadband network will provide TouchTunes with a unique combination of high data speeds, excellent in-building wireless penetration, and coast-to-coast coverage. With instant-on connectivity, TouchTunes systems using Verizon’s 4G LTE will have lower deployment costs and on-demand access to TouchTunes’ rich entertainment and advertising media.

“We’re proud to partner with Verizon as it launches its next generation of high speed mobile networks,” said Michael Tooker, SVP of Technology at TouchTunes. “The terrific in-building penetration and breakthrough performance of Verizon’s 4G LTE Mobile Broadband network will seamlessly connect users to our vast music catalog and our advertising partners to their target audience.”

At CES, TouchTunes will demonstrate an LTE connected jukebox and LTE connected TouchTunesTV system, as well as its new myTouchTunes Mobile app for the Android platform. Visitors will be able to use the Mobile app to browse and search for music, access their personal playlists, play music from the jukebox, automatically post their plays to Facebook and Twitter, and more. Commercial availability of 4G LTE supported TouchTunes jukeboxes and TouchTunesTV screens will closely follow the rollout of LTE devices. The myTouchTunes Mobile Android app will be available on VCAST shortly following CES.

The Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Mobile Broadband network, launched in December 2010, is the fastest, largest and most advanced network in the United States, providing speeds 10 times faster than existing 3G networks. Verizon Wireless’ 4G LTE Mobile Broadband network currently reaches one-third of all Americans, with plans to expand the network to the company’s entire coverage area over the next three years.

TouchTunes will be highlighted from Jan. 6 – 9 in Verizon Wireless’ booth (#35216) in the South Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center. For more information about the LTE Innovation Center and Verizon Wireless’ 4G LTE network, visit www.verizonwireless.com/lte.

About Verizon Wireless
Verizon Wireless operates the nation’s most reliable and largest wireless voice and 3G data network, serving more than 93 million customers. Headquartered in Basking Ridge, N.J., with more than 79,000 employees nationwide, Verizon Wireless is a joint venture of Verizon Communications (NYSE, NASDAQ: VZ) and Vodafone (LSE, NASDAQ: VOD). For more information, visit www.verizonwireless.com. To preview and request broadcast-quality video footage and high-resolution stills of Verizon Wireless operations, log on to the Verizon Wireless Multimedia Library at www.verizonwireless.com/multimedia.

About TouchTunes Interactive Networks
TouchTunes Interactive Networks is the largest interactive out-of-home entertainment network in North America. TouchTunes provides entertainment and marketing solutions to more than 45,000 bars, restaurants and retailers. Since TouchTunes introduced the world’s first digital downloading, pay-per-play jukebox, the network has become the largest of its kind with close to 2 million songs played, on average, across the network every day. TouchTunes has a growing music library of more than three million licensed tracks, and delivered more than 750 million songs in 2009 alone. In 2010 TouchTunes launched myTouchTunes, a new way for consumers to interact with the jukebox by allowing them to create playlists and play them on TouchTunes Digital Jukeboxes. myTouchTunes includes jukebox functionality, an online experience, and a new mobile app. The company also provides TouchTunesTV, a unique, screen-within-a-screen interactive television experience that wraps around regularly scheduled programming and provides custom advertising capabilities, venue promotions and social networking opportunities. TouchTunes is a privately held U.S. corporation with offices in New York City, Arlington Heights, Illinois and Montreal, Canada. For further information please visit us at:

www.touchtunes.com
www.mytouchtunes.com
www.facebook.com/touchtunes
www.twitter.com/touchtunes

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