Airwide Solutions Launches India Operations

New Delhi, January 19, 2006 - Airwide Solutions, a leader in mobile infrastructure software for wireless operators, today announced its entry into the Indian market. The company is planning a long-term investment, including product development, customer support, delivery and sales operations. A research, development and operations centre is planned for Gurgaon.

Airwide Solutions also announced the appointment of its India senior management team, including Rajive Chandra, Regional Director, and Amit Nagpal, General Manager.
Speaking on the launch, Amit Nagpal, General Manager India Operations, Airwide Solutions commented, "India is a strategic market for Airwide as it offers a unique blend of access to world class software engineering talent and a messaging market that is among the fastest growing in the world. Our investment in this region will augment our existing development operations in the UK and Canada, and allow us to continue to deliver innovative products and solutions to our customers." He added, "Our experience helping mobile operators throughout the world to optimize their infrastructure and accelerate data services growth will benefit Indian mobile operators facing the same challenges."

On his appointment as Regional Director, Mr. Rajive Chandra said, "I am delighted to join Airwide Solutions at such an exciting time in the company's expansion. The Indian center will allow us to develop and deliver customized products for the local operators." He added, "Though India is amongst the fastest growing mobile markets in the world, local operators are challenged with generating data service revenues. With average revenues per user among the lowest in the world, and increasing pressure from falling tariffs, mobile operators need to drive greater revenues from mobile data services that currently account for approximately 7% of services revenue. Airwide has an extensive history of helping our customers to develop leading-edge services that have proven to generate incremental messaging revenues."

Airwide Solutions will be serving the India market with it's portfolio of messaging, mobile security and device management products, as well as comprehensive business intelligence tools and solutions to drive premium messaging services.

About Airwide Solutions

Airwide Solutions is a global leader in providing mobile infrastructure software to enable, enhance and ensure mobile communications. Airwide serves more than 70 mobile operators in 46 countries. It is widely recognized for its flexibility in providing customized solutions to satisfy the most complex specifications. Airwide clients include major mobile operators such as Vodafone, T-Mobile, Orange, Vodacom and Telstra. Airwide Solutions was founded in 2004 following the merger of Schlumberger Messaging Solutions and Taral Networks. Airwide has a rich tradition of innovation and mobile industry milestones, including the first commercial SMS (short message service) in 1992, the first SMS router and offload system in 1998 and the first A2P (application-to-person) MMS push gateway in 2004 enabling the deployment of a new generation of high-traffic services such as multimedia sport alerts. Core products include: SMSC, MMSC, tools to improve premium messaging delivery, device management, handset fraud prevention solutions and anti-spam and anti-spoofing solutions. Airwide Solutions has regional offices in England, Canada, Australia, Singapore and the United States.

Please visit www.airwidesolutions.com for more information.

For further information please contact:
Rajive Chandra
Rajive.Chandra@airwidesolutions.com
+ 65 6248 4661

Karan Punia
KaranP@text100.co.in
+91 011 55600144 - 154