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Ecrio Inc. Releases Ecrio Communication Gateway

A Bridge between major Instant Messaging Services and SMS & WAP phones

Cupertino, California - September 24, 2001 — Ecrio Inc., a leading provider of advanced wireless messaging applications and infrastructure, announced the release of the Ecrio™ Communication Gateway (ECG). The ECG is a carrier-grade server enabling interoperability between short messaging service (SMS), Wireless Application Protocol (WAP™) and instant messaging (IM) services.

The ECG sits in an operator's network and acts as a bridge with other messaging services, promoting revenue-generating traffic and reducing customer churn. Subscribers can use a wide range of devices--mobile phones, personal digital assistants, and personal computers--over any network worldwide exchange SMS and instant messages with their Yahoo!™, MSN®, AOL™, and ICQ™ Pals. Users have complete control over their presence and availability. They determine when they are seen as on or offline, and can inform their Pals if they are available, out to lunch, or in a meeting.

"Reducing customer churn, driving up network traffic, and increasing revenue is more important than ever." said Nagesh Challa, president and CEO of Ecrio. "Operators are looking for ways to increase revenue with existing infrastructure, until they have fully deployed their GPRS and UMTS networks. The ECG is geared for today's 2G networks; it can be installed into any digital network without requiring changes in handsets and user behavior. The ECG enhances a provider's messaging offering and extends its reach to the hundreds of millions of worldwide messaging users. It provides an easy and fast approach to generate additional revenues and to gradually introduce value-added services to the public."

About Ecrio Communication Gateway

The Ecrio™ Communication Gateway is a carrier-grade server that helps 2G operators increase their messaging and WAP usage by combining SMS and WAP messaging, with the Internet Instant Messaging networks. In addition to inter-services messaging, subscribers can manage their presence and availability on other networks by sending commands to the gateway: toggle their presence as online or offline, or set their availability--Available, Out to lunch, In a meeting. They can even query the gateway and check the presence and availability of their Pals on other networks. The ECG supports open standards such as SMPP, UCP, and IETF's emerging instant messaging standards.

About Ecrio

Headquartered in Cupertino, California, Ecrio is the leading vendor of real time commerce and communications software for mobile phones. Ecrio provides interoperable and standard compliant software to mobile phone manufacturers and mobile operators. Solutions include mobile commerce applications, including NFC and MoBeam mobile barcode redemption, along with 3G communications applications such as Instant Messaging and Presence Services (IMPS), VideoShare, Voice over IP (VoIP), and Push to Talk over Cellular (PoC). Ecrio's customers include industry leaders such as ASUSTeK, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic and Visa. Visit www.ecrio.com

Ecrio and MoBeam are trademarks of Ecrio Inc. All other brands, products, and company names mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective holders.

Press Contact:

Larry Loper,
Ecrio lloper@ecrio.com
+1 408 596 1500

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