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Smith Micro and Guest-tek Deliver Seamless Mobile Video
Experience to Hotel Guests

VIDIO solution allows travelers to experience hotel entertainment content, services, and
promotions on personal mobile devices, such as smartphones, tablets


ALISO VIEJO, CA – June 28, 2012 – Smith Micro Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMSI), a leading provider of wireless and mobility solutions, today announced that Guest-tek Interactive Entertainment Ltd., a world-class provider of broadband technology solutions to the hospitality industry will utilize the VIDIO™ solution from Smith Micro to deliver television services to tablet and mobile devices at hotel properties using the Guest-Tek OneView™ platform.

Guest-tek ™ is the world’s largest provider of IP based technology solutions for the hospitality industry. Guest-tek’s™ OneView™ platform provides hotels with converged data, video and telephony services. Guest-tek™ is a preferred vendor to major hotel brands, providing services including network design, procurement, customized UIs, implementation, network management and in-house post sales customer support.

“The combination of VIDIO and our OneView platform gives guests the convenience of watching what they want, when and where they want it, using mobile devices that never leave their sides,” said Michael McCarthy, Director of Product Management at Guest-tek. “Now we can provide hotels with a highly personal way to communicate directly with their guests, while enabling revenue growth from additional content and service purchases.”

“Travelers want to stream movies and television on their own video-enabled phones and tablets. The challenge for content providers has been in adapting video content to support the increasing number of device types, screen sizes, and formats,” said Vinay Chandra, Director of Product Management at Smith Micro Software. “Using our VIDIO solution, Guest-tek can seamlessly deliver content to virtually any mobile device, increasing content views and related revenues.”

VIDIO is the most comprehensive video delivery platform for broadcasting both live and on-demand content to the web or any web-enabled device, as well as set-top boxes. VIDIO is a component of Smith Micro’s Mobile Experience platform that helps Mobile Operators, Device Manufacturers and Enterprises simplify and enhance the mobile experience while optimizing network and device resources.

About Smith Micro Software, Inc.:
Smith Micro Software provides solutions that simplify, secure and enhance the mobile experience. Our product and services portfolio spans Connectivity, Policy Management, Network Control, Communications and Hosting solutions. With 30 years of experience developing world-class client and server software applications, Smith Micro helps the leading mobile network operators, device manufacturers and enterprises increase efficiency and develop high-value relationships with their customers. For more information, visit smithmicro.com.

Safe Harbor Statement:
This release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, including without limitation forward-looking statements relating to the company’s quarterly revenues guidance, its financial prospects and other projections of its performance, the company's ability to increase its business and the anticipated timing and financial performance of its new products and services and potential acquisitions. Among the important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements are changes in demand for the company’s products from its customers and their end-users, new and changing technologies and mobile communications products, customer acceptance and timing of deployment of those technologies and products, new and continuing adverse economic conditions, and the company's ability to compete effectively with other software providers. These and other factors discussed in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its filings on Forms 10-K and 10-Q, could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in any forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements contained in this release are made on the basis of the views and assumptions of management regarding future events and business performance as of the date of this release, and the company does not undertake any obligation to update these statements to reflect events or circumstances occurring after the date of this release.

Smith Micro, VIDIO, and the Smith Micro logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of Smith Micro Software, Inc. All other trademarks and product names are the property of their respective companies.

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Contact:

Suzanne Runald
949-362-5800
[email protected]

Colleen Macdonald
Marketing Manager
Guest-tek™
Telephone: +1 (403) 509-1010
Email: [email protected]



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