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AsiaInfo to Upgrade China Mobile's Business Operation Support System in Zhejiang Province

2007-12-11 18:13 1188

BEIJING and SANTA CLARA, Calif., Dec. 11 /Xinhua-PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --AsiaInfo Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: ASIA), a leading provider of telecom software solutions and IT security products and services in China, today announced that it has signed a contract with Zhejiang Mobile, a subsidiary of China Mobile, to upgrade its Business Operation Support System (BOSS).

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Under the terms of the contract, AsiaInfo will upgrade Zhejiang Mobile’s BOSS system to comply with China Mobile’s new BOSS 3.0 specifications, with an emphasis on strengthening channel management functionality and improving data consistency among the carrier’s BOSS subsystems.

“Our scaleable software solutions have allowed us to form a long-term, strategic partnership with China Mobile as it expands and upgrades its BOSS system to accommodate rapid subscriber growth and adapt to the changing demands of end users,” said Steve Zhang, president and chief executive officer of AsiaInfo. “As the leading provider of software solutions to China’s telecom carriers, AsiaInfo are committed to helping carriers offer leading-edge services to their customers.”

AsiaInfo deployed Zhejiang Mobile’s existing BOSS system in 2002 to support ten million subscribers. Since 2002, Zhejiang Mobile’s subscriber base has more than tripled to approximately 34 million subscribers and its BOSS system is currently the largest in China and the second largest in the world. Earlier this year AsiaInfo also signed a contract with Zhejiang Mobile to optimize its BOSS system.

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 .

The information contained in this document is as of December 11, 2007. 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, 2006, 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 http://www.sec.gov .

For more information, please contact:

For Investors:

Charles Zhang

AsiaInfo Holdings, Inc.

Tel: +86-10-8216-6039

Email: ir@asiainfo.com

For Media:

Justin Knapp

Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide

Tel: +86-10-8520-6556

Email: Justin.Knapp@ogilvy.com

Source: AsiaInfo Holdings, Inc.
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