AsiaInfo to Provide a Suite of Telecom Solutions and Services for China Mobile's Southern-based IT Center
January 14 2010 - 8:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
Company is the first telecom software vendor selected to support
the initiative BEIJING and SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan. 14
/PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- AsiaInfo Holdings, Inc.
(NASDAQ:ASIA) ("AsiaInfo" or the "Company"), a leading provider of
telecom software solutions and IT security products and services in
China, today announced that it has been selected to build Business
Operation Support System ("BOSS") and Business Intelligence ("BI")
System as well as provide additional software and services, such as
security support, network integration and monitoring, for China
Mobile's southern-based IT center in Guangzhou. In order to
decrease infrastructure costs and improve the efficiency in which
China Mobile is able to monitor and maintain the IT systems of its
provincial subsidiaries, the operator has embarked on a long-term
strategy to centralize the IT-related systems of its western
provincial subsidiaries into a southern-based IT center in
Guangzhou. In the next three to five years, the carrier is expected
to centralize its provincial BOSS, Operational Support Systems
("OSS") and BI systems, research and development, training and
communications and additional IT data, into these two centers. "We
are excited to support this strategic initiative and play an
integral role in the development of China Mobile's southern-based
IT center," said Steve Zhang, AsiaInfo's president and chief
executive officer. "It is a significant contract win as we are in
the early stages of development and laying a strong foundation for
future collaboration on additional projects. By leveraging our
nationwide network and extensive experience in developing China
Mobile's IT systems, I'm confident that we are well-positioned to
assist additional provinces in their effort to migrate and
integrate with the centralized IT centers." Under the terms of the
contract, AsiaInfo will also migrate Tibet Mobile's BOSS and BI
systems and integrate China Mobile Peoples Telephone Company's BOSS
and BI systems into the southern-based IT center. 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
January 14, 2010. 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 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 investor and media inquiries, please
contact: In China: Sheryl Zhang AsiaInfo Holdings, Inc. Phone:
+86-10-8216-6039 Email: Justin Knapp Ogilvy Financial, Beijing
Phone: +86-10-8520-6556 Email: In the United States: Ms. Jessica
Barist Cohen Ogilvy Financial, New York Phone: +1-646-460-9989
Email: DATASOURCE: AsiaInfo Holdings, Inc. CONTACT: in China,
Sheryl Zhang of AsiaInfo Holdings, Inc., +86-10-8216-6039, ; or
Justin Knapp of Ogilvy Financial, Beijing, +86-10-8520-6556, ; or
in the United States, Jessica Barist Cohen of Ogilvy Financial, New
York, +1-646-460-9989, Web site: http://www.asiainfo.com/
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