VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - Jan. 13, 2015) - CounterPath Corporation (NASDAQ:CPAH)(TSX:CCV), a developer of award-winning over-the-top (OTT) Unified Communications solutions for enterprises and operators, today announced that ENMAX Corporation, a leading electrical utility company in Canada with more than 1,800 employees who serve approximately 835,000 residential and commercial sites, and over $3 billion in revenue, has selected CounterPath's Bria desktop softphone for deployment in its call center.

CounterPath, with its leading Bria softphone, Stretto Platform™ and reputation for quality, is positioned to capitalize on the large and growing call center market by selling Enterprise OTT solutions direct to customers and through its extensive network of partners, value added resellers and some of the world's leading call center solution vendors.

CounterPath's market leading software:

• Offers integrated calling, messaging and point-of-presence functionality for higher productivity
• Is platform agnostic, and can be deployed as an overlay solution to existing IT solutions
• Provides advanced analytics and reporting functions for administrators when coupled with CounterPath's Stretto Platform
• Is a leading call center software solution deployed by hundreds of large call centers world-wide

"We are pleased to be selected by ENMAX," said Todd Carothers, EVP of Marketing and Products at CounterPath. "This agreement further strengthens our position in the important call center vertical and highlights the scale of our addressable market by showcasing a new class of customer for CounterPath - an electrical utility. We look forward to supporting ENMAX as they roll-out our technology in their call center and will continue to pursue call center leads across the spectrum of industry verticals including financial services, government, industrials, and utilities."

Currently, many businesses are upgrading their call center software to increase productivity and reduce operating costs. CounterPath's Bria softphone and Stretto Platform allow call center IT staff to efficiently manage their Unified Communication solutions by tightly coupling Bria desktop, tablet and mobile softphone clients with client provisioning and user management, call management, and messaging and presence services while providing real-time analytics. The solution is flexible, modular and agnostic to existing network elements, and modules can be purchased individually or in groupings.

CounterPath technology powers the call centers of several operators and enterprises around the world including BT, inContact, Telmex, Telefónica and Vodafone, and to hundreds of enterprises through Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) relationships with tier one OEMs such as Genesys, Five9 and Avaya.

To enquire about Bria softphone clients and Stretto messaging and presence solutions, contact sales@counterpath.com.

To learn more about ENMAX, visit www.enmax.com.

About CounterPath

CounterPath's Unified Communications solutions are changing the face of telecommunications. An industry and user favorite, Bria softphones for desktop, tablet and mobile devices, together with Stretto Platform™ server solutions, enable operators, OEMs and enterprises large and small around the globe to offer a seamless and unified over-the-top (OTT) communications experience across both fixed and mobile networks. The Bria and Stretto combination enable an improved user experience as an overlay to the most popular UC and IMS telephony and applications servers on the market today. 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, Avaya, BroadSoft, BT, Cisco Systems, GENBAND, Metaswitch Networks, Mitel, NEC, Network Norway, Rogers and Verizon.