CounterPath's Bria Mobile Softphone for iPad receives ITSPA Most Innovative VoIP Product Award

Company's Bria iPad Edition Application Recognized in the UK for Excellence in Product Innovation

VANCOUVER, March 22, 2012 /CNW/ - CounterPath Corporation (TSX-V: CCV) (OTCBB: CPAH) an award-winning provider of desktop and mobile VoIP software products and solutions, today announced that the Internet Telephony Service Providers Association (ITSPA), the UK's industry body for Internet telephony service providers, has named CounterPath's Bria iPad Edition mobile softphone as the recipient of its 2012 Most Innovative VoIP Product Award.

The ITSPA is a trade association which represents UK-based network operators, service providers and other businesses involved with the supply of VoIP services to business and residential consumers within the United Kingdom and across the European Union. The ITSPA Awards celebrate innovation and best practice in the VoIP industry.

Both CounterPath's Bria iPhone Edition and Bria iPad Edition applications were named finalists in the Most Innovative VoIP Product/Service category, along with three other competing products. Bria iPad Edition was named the winner on March 21^st at the ITSPA Awards event at the House of Commons Members Dining Room, hosted by Dr. Julian Huppert MP, Vice Chair of the Parliamentary Internet Communications and Technology Forum.

"We are honored to be recognized by the ITSPA for our work in bringing seamless VoIP communications to a large contingent of mobile device users, Apple iPad users," said Robert Brown, Vice President Product Marketing. "Our company's mission to connect people across any platform, on any device and over any network is gaining momentum in the UK, Europe and farther afield, as evidenced by these accolades and by the market uptake of our desktop and mobile softphone products, and we are gratified to be creating innovative software solutions that change the way the world communicates."

For more information on Bria mobile applications, visit http://www.counterpath.com/softphone-products.html.

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About CounterPath
CounterPath's SIP-based VoIP softphones are changing the face of telecommunications. An industry and user favorite, Bria softphones for desktop and mobile devices, together with the company's server applications and Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) solutions, enable service providers, OEMs and enterprises large and small around the globe to offer a seamless and unified communications experience across both fixed and mobile networks.  Standards-based, cost-effective and reliable, CounterPath's award-winning solutions power the voice and video calling, messaging, and presence offerings of customers such as Alcatel-Lucent, AT&T, Verizon, BT, Mobilkom Austria, Rogers, Avaya, BroadSoft, Cisco Systems, GENBAND, Metaswitch Networks, Mitel and NEC. For more information, visit www.counterpath.com.

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