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Sept. 6, 2006

TeleNav Press Release:

TeleNav Drives Mobile GPS Navigation Market at CTIA

First company to launch a GPS navigation system on mobile phones in the U.S. provides insight into what it takes to succeed with location-based services

TeleNav Inc., the leading provider of wireless location-based services (LBS), will showcase its new TeleNav GPS Navigator™ 5.0 wireless navigation service at CTIA Wireless I.T. and Entertainment, September 12-14, 2006, at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

TeleNav GPS Navigator 5.0 is the first GPS application on mobile phones that provides U.S. consumers with full-color, three dimensional (3D) moving maps, creating a more realistic and easy-to-follow visual navigation experience.

TeleNav’s president and CEO, Dr. H.P. Jin, will be a featured panelist in a session entitled ‘Location Based Services in Enterprise.’ The panel will be from 3:30 – 5:00pm on Tuesday, September 12 in room 402 of the Convention Center.

Hassan Wahla, TeleNav’s senior director of business development, will speak on a panel entitled ‘Security vs. Privacy’ at NAVTEQ’s LBS Developer Conference which runs in conjunction with CTIA. The panel will be from 1:00-1:45pm on Monday, September 11, also at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

TeleNav will also exhibit at the Pepcom Mobile Focus event on September 12 from 7:00-10:00pm at the Westin Bonaventure hotel in Los Angeles.

TeleNav representatives will be available for questions or to show demonstrations of TeleNav products at the following partner booths on the Exhibit Floor: Palm (Booth #1001), Research in Motion (RIM) (Booth #261) and NAVTEQ (Booth #618).

TeleNav GPS Navigator, originally launched in 2003, was the first GPS navigation system on mobile phones in the U.S. The service starts at just $9.99 per month for unlimited use, and TeleNav GPS Navigator customers are not charged cellular airtime minutes for using the service.

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Media Contacts

Mary Beth Lowell

425-531-0122 phone
marybethl@telenav.com

Todd Witkemper

408-306-6677 phone
toddw@telenav.com

About TeleNav Inc.

TeleNav, Inc., is a privately-held company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. Deployed by 15 carriers in 29 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 services are available on more than 500 wireless devices and run on most major mobile platforms currently available. TeleNav’s service providers include . TeleNav’s partners include Ford Motor Company, Hewlett-Packard, HTC, INRIX, LG, Motorola, NAVTEQ, Nokia, Palm, Qualcomm, Research In Motion (RIM), Samsung, Sanyo and Tele Atlas.

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