ACL announces strategic partnerships with leading Asian Mobile Operators to penetrate Asian mobile market
August 13, 2002

ACL has recently tied-up with RPG Cellular & targets a huge combined subscribers base of 1,35,000

New Delhi, August 13, 2002: ACL Wireless Limited, Asia's leading provider of wireless instant messaging & presence application to mobile operators announces strategic partnership with leading Asian Mobile Operators such as AIS, Exelcom, AirTel, Spice, Idea Cellular and Escotel. ACL has recently tied-up with RPG Cellular, Chennai to market & deploy ACL's wireless instant messenger on mobile networks in Chennai, that will target a combined subscriber base of 1,35, 000 approx. AirTel, Spice, Idea & Escotel has a combined subscriber base of around 22, 50, 202

With this strategic partnerships ACL will market and deploy WIM 2.0 on the operator's network & will target huge subscribers base across India. "ACL WIM 2.0 is a user friendly application that provides consumers access to IM networks such as Yahoo, MSN, ICQ & do real time messaging with their buddies on PC, mobile & e-mail networks", adds Sanjay K Goyal, CEO & Founder ACL Wireless Ltd.

ACL WIM 2.0, which interconnects with popular web based IM's, facilitates exchange of messages and presence information across devices, platforms and communities. Its object-based architecture separates presentation, protocol, data access, transport layers effectively allowing exceptional flexibility in adding new features to the running service. It is compliant with open standards like PAM, JDO, ODMG, Wireless Village, XML, MMS, WAP and SMPP.

ACL WIM version 2.0 is expected to enhance user experience on all deployed operator circles including AirTel Delhi, Spice-Karnataka, Spice- Punjab, Idea Cellular- Andhra Pradesh," Sanjay Further added.

About ACL Wireless Limited

ACL's mission is to become Asia's leading developer and provider of a wireless instant messaging and presence application and provider of a wireless instant messaging and presence application to mobile operators. Founded in early 2000, with its headquarters in India and a sales office in Malaysia, the 40 member strong ACL team comprises of entrepreneurs, telecom and software experts. ACL team comprises of entrepreneurs, telecom and software experts. ACL has successfully marketed its flagship product ACL WIM to seven leading mobile operators in Asia, whose combined subscriber base exceeds ten million. Several other leading operators, with over twenty million subscribers have evaluated ACL WIM successfully and are considering service offer to their subscribers. ACL's further plans include accessing markets in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, thereby establishing a global presence.