BEIJING and SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 30 /PRNewswire-Asia/ --AsiaInfo Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: ASIA) (the "Company"), a leading provider of telecom software solutions and IT security products and services in China, today announced that it has signed a contract with China Unicom to build out a nationwide mobile email system (the "system") with a capacity of 14 million users to support email functions on mobile phones. The system will integrate mobile phone and email functionalities, allowing users to send and receive emails from their mobile phones and send and receive text messages ("SMS") and multimedia messages ("MMS") from their email systems, which can be accessed by mobile phone or computer.
"AsiaInfo is a world-class software provider with extensive experience rolling out nationwide mobile email systems for Chinese telecom operators, which puts us in an excellent competitive position as operators begin to roll out value-added services associated with high-speed data access from new 3G networks," said Steve Zhang, AsiaInfo's president and chief executive officer. "China Unicom hopes to leverage its WCDMA 3G network and related value-added services to attract and retain high-value customers. This advanced mobile email system will help China Unicom increase user loyalty and average revenue per user by allowing users to access and manage emails as well as other functionalities such as monthly phone bills, mobile community features, blogs, photo albums and others, through their mobile phones."
China Unicom users will be able to order and cancel the mobile email service via SMS, WAP and over the Web. Users will have access to all basic email functionalities through their cell phones, including composing, responding, sending, receiving, deleting and archiving emails. The system will also support more advanced features, such as push email, email signatures, filters, search functionality, as well as allowing users to send and receive SMS and MMS messages through the email system. Users can choose to be notified of new email via SMS, WAP push email and MMS.
About AsiaInfo Holdings, Inc.
AsiaInfo Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: ASIA) is a leading provider of
high-quality telecom software solutions and IT security products and services to some of China's largest enterprises as well as many small and medium sized companies in China. An established leader in the Chinese telecommunications industry, AsiaInfo became a prominent supplier of IT security products and services in China with the acquisition of Lenovo's non-telecom related IT services business in 2004.
Organized as a Delaware corporation, AsiaInfo began operations in the United States in 1993. The Company moved major operations to China in 1995 and played a significant role in the construction of the national backbones and provincial access networks for all of China's major national telecom carriers, including China Telecom, China Mobile, China Unicom and China Netcom. Since 1998, AsiaInfo has continued diversifying its product offerings and is now a major provider of telecom software solutions in China.
For more information about AsiaInfo, please visit http://www.asiainfo.com .
Safe Harbor Statement
The information contained in this document is as of April 30, 2009. AsiaInfo assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained in this document as a result of new information or future events or developments.
This document contains forward-looking information about AsiaInfo's operating results and business prospects that involve substantial risks and uncertainties. You can identify these statements by the fact that they use words such as "anticipate," "estimate," "expect," "project," "intend," "plan," "believe," and other words and terms of similar meaning in connection with any discussion of future operating or financial performance. Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: government telecommunications infrastructure and budgetary policy in China; our ability to maintain our concentrated customer base; the long and variable billing cycles for our products and services that can cause our revenues and operating results to vary significantly from period to period; our ability to meet our working capital requirements; our ability to retain our executive officers; our ability to attract and retain skilled personnel; potential liabilities we are exposed to because we extend warranties to our customers; risks associated with cost overruns and delays; our ability to develop or acquire new products or enhancements to our software products that are marketable on a timely and cost-effective basis; our ability to adequately protect our proprietary rights; the competitive nature of the markets we operate in; political and economic policies of the Chinese government. A further list and description of these risks, uncertainties, and other matters can be found in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2008, and in our periodic reports on Forms 10-Q and 8-K (if any) filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and available at www.sec.gov.
For investor and media inquiries, please contact:
In China:
Ms. Sheryl Zhang
AsiaInfo Holdings, Inc.
Tel: +86-10-8216-6039
Email: ir@asiainfo.com
Mr. Andrew Keller
Ogilvy Financial, Beijing
Tel: +86-10-8520-3112
Email: andrew.keller@ogilvy.com
In the United States:
Mr. Thomas Smith
Ogilvy Financial, New York
Tel: +1-212-880-5269
Email: thomas.smith@ogilvypr.com
