MONTREAL Jan 05 MARKET WIRE Octasic Inc

Providers across the countryhave been pulling offers and are scrambling for funds; many are evenstruggling to stay afloat. Milestone Providers, LLC is most definitelynot one of these providers.Milestone was not affected by these changes in life expectancyunderwriting. The only change is an increase in the number of policiesMilestone is purchasing. Having adjusted to theseinaccurate life expectancy determinations prior to the 21st and AVSshake-up, we were able to increase our funding and honor our offers. Whilewe continue our everyday business, our competitors have pulled offers andmade procedural changes in attempts to adapt to these underwritingchanges."Milestone CEO, Kristian Armstrong, was incredibly pleased with the 21stand AVS changes. On the day of the announcement Armstrong was quotedsaying, "This correction should result in the life expectancydeterminations across the industry being more accurate, and consistentwith what we have understood and used for a long time.

We were beingout-bid by less educated buyers who were using inaccurate LE's. In this article Mr.Volkov states, "I think there are going to be major losses in thisindustry. From a pricing perspective, we believe these changes willnegatively impact investors by 7 to10 percentage points."While others in the industry continue struggling, Milestone continues tothrive. "We're currently seeing more policies than ever before, and havean increased hunger for small face policies and portfolios available forsale in this New Year.

With our state-of-the-art life settlementacquisition and management software, we've been able to process andevaluate this increase of policies, while maintaining our signature quickturn-around time," Armstrong stated. Whileothers continued to fill portfolios using inaccurate life expectancyreports, Milestone stood alone with their conviction that mortality tableswould lengthen. They stood by their pricing model and remained committedto providing an honest investment for their world leading institutionalinvestors. Milestone is once again demonstrating why they operate underthe slogan, "We didn't create the life settlement market... we fixed it."Contact:Matt BoamanManager of Inside Sales(888) 877-5686Email ContactCopyright 2009, Market Wire, All rights reserved.-0-. MONTREAL, Jan 05 (MARKET WIRE) Octasic Inc., a leading innovator of media processing solutions, todayannounced that it is expanding its business with ZTE Corporation, one ofthe largest telecommunications equipment manufacturers worldwide, toprovide echo cancellation and voice quality enhancement (VQE) solutions.ZTE Corporation's 3G Platform Division has selected Octasic's OCT6100devices for integration into its high-density Base Station Controllers(BSC) for GSM networks.ZTE's ZXG10 iBSC is based on an all IP platform and has integrated theOctasic OCT6100 solution including Tandem Free Operation (TFO). Also knownas Vocoder bypass, TFO is specified by the 3GPP standards group to helpimprove voice quality in mobile-to-mobile calls.

By allowing voice tocross the network without unnecessary decoding and re-encoding, bettervoice quality is possible. Octasic provides support for TFO with its echocancellation solutions for 2G and 3G systems. Octasic's carrier-grade echocancellation and VQE solutions reduce system costs by offeringunparalleled area density and low power consumption.With the recent consolidation of the six largest telecommunicationscompanies in China into three, there is accelerated pressure on deployingFixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) solutions to reduce costs. As a result, solutions such as ZTE's iBSC andBSCplus architecture provide the flexibility and integration required tomake this transition cost-effective. Echo cancellation becomes required atnew and more varied points in the network, which is driving new demand forefficient solutions such as Octasic's OCT6100 and associated TFOcapability."The voice quality results and channel densities we are able to obtainwith Octasic's solution are so impressive, that we are using theirsolution across several product platforms," says Xu QiaoMing, 3G PlatformHardware R&D Manager at ZTE Corporation. "We are very pleased with theoutstanding support that Octasic's engineering group provided us duringour development and design phases.