Mr. Todd Carothers reports

COUNTERPATH ANNOUNCES MAJOR UPDATES TO BRIA TEAMS UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS SOLUTION

CounterPath Corp. has launched Bria Teams Pro, a new addition to the Bria Teams family, which adds a dedicated high-definition (HD) virtual meeting room for each user to facilitate voice and video conferencing for multiple participants. Additionally, chat rooms have also been introduced for all Bria Teams users -- both Standard and Pro -- to better streamline team conversations and track chat history across devices. These new updates will be demonstrated in booth No. 1205 at Enterprise Connect in Orlando, Fla., from March 18 to 20.

The new Bria Teams Pro cloud-based service seamlessly integrates a dedicated virtual meeting room with secure HD audio and video conferencing, in-room messaging and screen sharing, within the Bria Teams softphone experience for desktop and mobile users. With each user assigned a unique conference room, there is no need to prebook a meeting space, eliminating the risk of overlapping sessions with other users. To enable users to communicate with users outside of their organization's "team," including customers, clients and colleagues, Bria Teams Pro allows participants to join via the Bria Teams application or web browser.

Similar to Bria Teams Standard, the Pro offering includes CounterPath-hosted team voice and messaging services, as well as the ability to integrate call server (PBX) or hosted VoIP (voiceover Internet protocol) services.

"As a follow-on to our initial launch of Bria Teams last fall, we are excited to introduce a meeting room feature as part of the new Bria Teams Pro offering," said Todd Carothers, executive vice-president of sales, marketing and product at CounterPath. "This new virtual conference capability delivers a robust unified communications and collaboration solution that is easy to use and deploy for SMBs and teams within large enterprises. Bria Teams Pro is highly disruptive as it brings 1,080-pixel HD video collaboration, screen sharing, team messaging and voice all into a single offering that interoperates with your current voice service at an incredibly low price point. You would need multiple solutions to cover what Bria Teams Pro offers."

"Prior to deploying Bria Teams from CounterPath, we had seven different ways of communicating. Many were through personal channels like Slack, Skype and mobile phones, so a lot can fall through the cracks," said Josh Loewen, co-founder and strategist at The Status Bureau. "Now with Bria Teams Pro, we can stay in touch via phone, chat, screen share and video conferencing all from the same application. Bria Teams improved our ability to collaborate internally and externally. I would highly recommend it to not only small business owners but any organization looking to increase the productivity and efficiency of their teams."

Bria Teams Pro meeting room features include:

• Dedicated virtual meeting room with unique conference room ID for each user;
• HD audio and 1,080 p video conferencing for up to 200 participants;
• Simple click to start or join a multiparty voice or video conference call;
• The ability to manage video settings on the fly -- video layout, camera selection and video quality can be changed quickly during a live session;
• Instant screen share to all conference participants;
• Toggle button to lock or unlock conference sessions with a user-designated PIN;
• Rich host features with the ability to view and manage participant capabilities such as assign video, presenter control, turn microphone on/off, room-wide muting and unmuting, and lock participants from changing mute setting;
• Server-based HD audio and video recording with cloud storage support;
• Participant Web client for audio, video and screen sharing.

Bria Teams Pro is available for a free 30-day trial at the Soft Phone website. Introductory pricing plans are available as monthly subscriptions for $14.95 (U.S.) per user or as annual subscriptions of $119.40 (U.S.) per user ($9.95 (U.S.) per user per month).

About Bria Teams

Bria Teams is a powerful, easy-to-use unified communications service that provides secure team messaging and presence, HD voice and video calling, and screen sharing on up to three devices per user. Packaged as a subscription-based cloud service, Bria Teams unifies team communications and collaboration across desktop and mobile devices, and enables organizations to enhance team productivity and improve business processes. Small and medium-sized businesses and enterprises can easily integrate Bria Teams with existing call server (PBX) or VoIP services, allowing users to take their business number with them as their single identity. Bria Teams can be deployed as a stand-alone communication solution or overlay an organization's infrastructure to leverage their existing investments, reducing both costs and complexity.

About CounterPath Corp.

CounterPath unified communications solutions are changing the face of telecommunications. An industry and user favourite, Bria softphones for desktop, tablet and mobile devices, together with Stretto Platform server solutions, enable service providers, OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) and enterprises large and small around the globe to offer a seamless and unified communications experience across any networks.