Asavie to power office mobility services for M-Tel Bulgaria

Asavie Technologies today announced the signing of an agreement with M-Tel, the market leading mobile operator in Bulgaria to provide M-Tel customers with office mobility and remote working solutions delivered on Asavie's Passbridge service platform. Using the ‘M-Tel OFFICE ACCESS' brand, M-Tel will offer customers an easily installed and managed solution to their mobility requirements including

• Mobile Office - email, file and application access from mobile handsets/li>
• Remote Worker - access to company networks from laptops
• Secure Mobile Access - Private connections to office networks via the M-Tel network

Commenting on the agreement, Evgeni Karakanovski, Director Marketing Data Division said that "partnering with Asavie has enabled us to go to market quickly with a fully branded service as the Passbridge platform integrated seamlessly with our network and business processes. M-Tel OFFICE ACCESS will be a major driver for growth of mobile data usage among our existing business customers and attract new subscribers to the network."

"We are delighted to partner with such an innovative operator as M-Tel. As the market leader, M-Tel is the perfect partner for the delivery of new services to the Bulgarian business community" said Asavie's CEO, Ralph Shaw.

About Asavie Technologies
Asavie Technologies is the leading provider of hosted data services that enable mobile and fixed line operators to deliver value-added mobility, remote access and networking solutions to their customers. Asavie's Passbridge platform powers customer mobility and remote access solutions on leading operators such as Vodafone, O2 Telefonica, France Telecom Group, AT&T and Alltel Wireless.

About M-Tel
Mobiltel, with in excess of 5 million clients and more than 50 percent market share, is the telecommunications market leader in Bulgaria and one of the most successful mobile operators in Europe. Over the past year Mobiltel has extended services to its clients with fixed offerings inlcluding unique home and office services M-Tel HomeBox, M-Tel OfficeBox and M-Tel VoiceBox. Within one year M-Tel became the only telecom operator in Bulgaria to provide full national coverage for its fixed services.

The portfolio of the company includes innovative products such as mobile video observation, payment of public services through mobile phone, the use of three mobile devices at the same time with EXTRA SIM and the complete mobile product and service solution M-Tel NET Book.

M-Tel clients have the opportunity to use the best services such as Blackberry, cheaper calls when roaming abroad and mobile handset purchase at discount prices, as well as games, music downloads and live TV optimised for mobile handsets via the Vodafone Live! multimedia platform.

About Passbridge
Asavie's Passbridge is a hosted value-added data services platform that provides operators with a proven solution for the delivery of mobility, remote access and networking services to their customers. Passbridge enables operators to rapidly deliver custom solutions to the market that are integrated with their business, operational and network systems from a hosted platform which means reduced risk, reduced capital expenditure and reduced operational costs. With Passbridge, operators can offer networking solutions to customers that integrate multiple core network technologies as a single unified service resulting in reduced provisioning and customer service costs.

For further information contact:

Maurice McMullin
Asavie Technologies Ltd.
T: (+353) 1 676 3585
W: www.asavie.com

Mobiltel
pr@mobiltel.bg
T: +359 88221221
w: www.m-tel.bg