Option Celebrates 20 Years of Innovative Entrepreneurship

Leuven, Belgium - September 8, 2006 - Option N.V. (Euronext: OPTI; OTC: OPNVY), the wireless technology company, today celebrates '20 years of Innovative Entrepreneurship'. Since its foundation in 1986, Option has been transformed from a start-up with just five employees into the global leader in the field of broadband wireless with nearly 580 employees and offices in Belgium, Ireland, Germany and Stockholm and sales and support offices in the US, Japan and Taiwan.

Today, with a share of 32.5 percent (December 2005), Option is the worldwide leader in the market for wireless PC data cards and is pioneering new market segments such as fixed-mobile
convergence and wireless broadband connectivity for mobile devices such as notebooks, UM-PCs and PDA's.