Zug, Switzerland, 15 December 2005 – Infront Sports & Media has signed an agreement with Telefónica S.A. for an extensive package of new media broadcast rights covering all 64 matches of the 2006 FIFA World Cup™ for almost all territories in Latin and South America.
 
The rights, which consist of mobile telephony and internet rights, allow for the transmission of an unlimited number of near-live and/or delayed video clips of key match footage such as goals over the World Wide Web and via mobile networks to mobile phones, geo-blocked for user access only within the territories defined below. The rights apply also to archive video material of the 2002 FIFA World Cup™.
 
The rights package will be exploited in each territory in Spanish and Portuguese language through mobile networks affiliated to Telefónica Móviles and through the Terra Networks Group for the World Wide Web. Both companies are subsidiaries of Telefónica S.A.
 
The agreement entitles Telefónica Móviles to exploit the mobile rights granted on an exclusive basis for the territories of Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Peru and Venezuela and on a non-exclusive basis in the territories of Argentina, Brazil, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Uruguay and Puerto Rico (only in Portuguese language). Terra Networks has the right to transmit the acquired contents on a non-exclusive basis in all of the above mentioned territories (only delayed coverage in the territory of Brazil).
 
Oliver Seibert, an Executive Director of Infront, said: "This agreement will have a tremendous effect on the development of the new media broadcast market in Latin and South America. We are very pleased having signed this milestone contract with an established and experienced partner like Telefónica".
 
For further information, please contact:
Jörg Polzer
Infront Sports & Media AG
Tel. +41-41-723 15 15
Fax +41-41-723 15 16
info@infrontsports.com