New System Will Cover Xinjiang Province and Northern Telecom's Nine Provinces

AsiaInfo Holdings, Inc. , a leading provider of telecom software solutions and IT security products and services in China, today announced that it has won a tender with China Telecom, the world's largest fixed-line telecommunications and broadband service provider, to develop an Operational Data Store ("ODS") system for both Xinjiang Telecom and Northern Telecom, the northern division of China Telecom that covers nine provinces in Northern China.

Under the terms of the agreement, AsiaInfo will develop a full set of independent ODS solutions for Xinjiang Telecom and Northern Telecom. As part of China Telecom's Business Intelligence ("BI") system, the ODS system is able to analyze data from multiple business sectors, thus helping the carrier to better understand the customer behavior and examine all the customer information from a single view.

"With intensifying competition, business intelligence systems are an increasingly important asset for operators as they seek to differentiate their offerings," said Steve Zhang, AsiaInfo's president and chief executive officer. "This contract to develop an ODS system for Xinjiang Telecom and Northern Telecom speaks to AsiaInfo's ability to provide best-of-class technology and comprehensive solutions for our customers, as well as our growing influence in the China Telecom space. We are excited to devote our experience in developing full-service operational support systems, rich engineering talent and leading 3G products to support China Telecom's expansion from a fixed-line and broadband operator to a full-service telecommunications provider now that China's telecom restructuring has begun."

The first stage of the Xinjiang project is expected to come online by the end of June 2008, covering 6.5 million phonic users and 0.6 million data users, with coverage expectations of over 9 million users. The first stage of the Northern Telecom project is expected to be online by the end of September 2008, covering three of Northern Telecom's nine provinces, including Hebei, Shanxi and Heilongjiang. The Northern Telecom ODS system is expected to cover about 10 million users by 2009.

AsiaInfo offers a suite of telecom software solutions and services including Business Operations Support Systems ("BOSS") and BI systems. AsiaInfo's BI systems include data mining applications, data warehousing and metadata management platforms.

Source:Xinhua