ANT Opens China Support and Development Centre, Marking the Company's Continued Asia Pacific Expansion

Cambridge, England, 2 November 2005

ANT plc (AIM: ANTP), a leading provider of embedded browser, content control and user interface software for IPTV and consumer electronics markets, today announced the opening of a new support and development centre in China to provide local service and expertise to China's rapidly growing IPTV market.

The new office, located in Shanghai, complements ANT's existing business development centres which serve Taiwan, Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, Hong Kong and Australasia.

"Industry analysts agree that the Asia Pacific region will lead the worldwide growth in IPTV and other interactive digital TV technologies," said Charles Maltby, engineering director at ANT. "Our expansion in this area is a further demonstration of our commitment to the region."

ANT Fresco, the most widely integrated IPTV User Interface solution available to the market today, and ANT Galio, ANT's newIPTV Client Software Platform, provide the fundamental point of interaction between consumers and an IPTV service. This is the crucial area for subscriber satisfaction which ultimately drives the success and profitability for operators. ANT's solutions are deployed with set-top box developers and telecom operators around the world, including Asia Pacific set-top box developers Coship Electronics, Alpha Networks, Askey Computer Corporation, Homecast, Kaon Media and InfoEQ, and Taiwan's telecom operator Chunghwa Telecom.

About ANT Software Limited

ANT plc (www.antplc.com) is a leading provider of digital TV client and consumer electronic software solutions. ANT's unique client solutions allow robust and consistent delivery of digital-media, user interfaces, interactive services and applications to the TV and portable media devices. ANT enables service providers to efficiently create and deploy successful solutions to the market that deliver high value and clear differentiation.

ANT's products are pre-integrated with many industry-leading solutions and are based upon open standards, enabling low-risk, cost-effective roll-out of services, while ensuring flexible client hardware choice with efficient bill of materials. ANT software has been extensively deployed by customers throughout the world including Chunghwa Telecom, Foxconn, France Telecom, Humax, LG/Nortel, Philips, Sagem, Samsung, SaskTel, Telecom Italia and Thomson.

ANT plc's shares are listed on AIM, a London Stock Exchange regulated market, under the ticker ANTP (Reuters: ANTP.L, Bloomberg: ANTP.LN).

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ANT, the ANT logo, Galio, Fresco and PurePlay are all trademarks or registered trademarks of ANT Software Limited. All other brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

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