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AsiaInfo Signs Network Solutions Contract For China Mobile's Internet Backbone Phase II Upgrade

Posted on: Thursday, 19 August 2004, 06:00 CDT

Company is Only Network Integrator to Cover All 31 CMNet Provincial Nodes

BEIJING and SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 19 /Xinhua-PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AsiaInfo Holdings, Inc. , a leading provider of software, solutions and services to telecom operators and enterprises in China, today announced that it has signed a network solutions contract with China Mobile Communications Corporation (China Mobile) to carry out phase II of its IP backbone (CMNet) upgrade and optimization.

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Under the agreement, AsiaInfo will provide integration services to support the upgrade of phase II of China Mobile's CMNet system. The high-capacity enhanced system will incorporate leading edge Internet technology to deliver China Mobile's expanded data-related applications, including multi-media and IP, VOIP, VPN, and WAP services.

The company noted that this contract further solidifies AsiaInfo's leading position in China's network solutions market.

AsiaInfo has been a leading technology partner of China Mobile since 2000, when it first built and managed the network integration of China Mobile's CMNet national IP backbone to connect China's 31 provincial capitals. AsiaInfo cooperates with China Mobile in a number of areas, including IP network infrastructure, billing, SMS software solutions, and CRM solutions, and is the largest supplier of business operation support systems (BOSS) to the China Mobile market. Most recently, the company announced a number of new BOSS related contracts with China Mobile subsidiaries and officially launched its OPENBoss Version 1.5 software product.

About AsiaInfo Holdings, Inc.

AsiaInfo Holdings, Inc. is a leading provider of high- quality software and solutions in China. The company provides total customer solutions to some of China's largest companies, and helps its customers to increase their business value in fast-growing and evolving markets. AsiaInfo's products and services cover telecom network infrastructure and application services, encompassing messaging, broadband and wireless; customer relationship management (CRM) and billing solutions; decision support systems; business intelligence (BI); and human resource management (HRM).

Organized as a Delaware corporation, AsiaInfo began in 1995 as the constructor of 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. After its acquisition of OSS vendor Bonson in 2002, and the HRM and BI business from Pacific Software in 2003, the company has successfully leveraged its strengths as a IT systems integrator and telecom software solution provider, to offer a full suite of IT services to a broad range of customers.

For more information about AsiaInfo, please visit http://www.asiainfo.com/ .

The information contained in this documents is as of July 15, 2004. 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 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, 2003, 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:

US Contact:

Renee Hartmann of AsiaInfo Holdings, Inc.

Tel: +1-800-618-0588 or +1-408-970-0080

Email: ir@asiainfo.com

China Contacts:

Rachel Huo of AsiaInfo Technologies (China), Inc.

Tel: +86-10-6250-1658 ext. 8687

Email: huoran@asiainfo.com

Christina Splinder of Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide

Tel: +86-10-8520-6550

Email: christina.splinder@ogilvy.com

Web Sites: http://www.asiainfo.com http://www.sec.gov

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AsiaInfo Holdings, Inc.

Contact: US Contacts - Renee Hartmann of AsiaInfo Holdings, Inc.,+1-800-618-0588 or +1-408-970-0080, or ir@asiainfo.com; China Contacts -Rachel Huo of AsiaInfo Technologies (China), Inc., +86-10-6250-1658 ext. 8687,or huoran@asiainfo.com; Christina Splinder of Ogilvy Public RelationsWorldwide, +86-10-8520-6550, or christina.splinder@ogilvy.com, for AsiaInfo

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