The Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific Technology Awards 2005 held on June 15, 2005 was officiated by Senior Minister of State for Information, Communications, the Arts and Health, Dr Balaji Sadasivan

Platinum Sponsor:

Mahindra British Telecom (MBT) is the telecommunications industry's premier partner for providing value-added software and service solutions that substantially reduce management and maintenance costs for IT systems. We use our unsurpassed industry knowledge, superior development processes, and intense focus on quality to serve premium telecom companies worldwide.

MBT is the successful, long-term joint venture of Mahindra and Mahindra (M&M), India, and British Telecommunications plc. (BT), United Kingdom. Created in 1988 as a 'software services company', MBT has grown steadily to become a leading 'software solutions company' with a defined focus on Telecom.

MBT serves customers throughout Asia, Europe, North America, and the Middle East. Clients include Alcatel, Alltel, BT, Convergys, Ericsson, Glenayre, Marconi, O2, Qwest, and Qatar Telecom.

MBT has been recognized with an ISO 9001 certification and a SEI-CMM Level 5 assessment for our software development processes, meeting the industry's highest standards. With a significant investment in research and development, the company focuses on developing methodologies for fast, cost effective implementation of new technologies. MBT's global presence has grown to more than 5,000 employees in the USA, United Kingdom, Europe, Middle East, India, Singapore and Australia.

Featured Nominee:

SAS is the market leader in providing a new generation of business intelligence software and services that create true enterprise intelligence. SAS solutions are used at more than 40,000 sites - including
96 of the top 100 companies on the FORTUNE Global 500 - to develop more profitable relationships with customers and suppliers; to enable better, more accurate and informed decisions; and to drive organizations forward.

SAS is the only vendor that completely integrates leading data warehousing, analytics and traditional BI applications to create intelligence from massive amounts of data. For nearly three decades, SAS has been giving customers around the world The Power to Know.

Gold Featured Nominees:

PCCW Limited (SEHK: 0008, ADR-NYSE: PCW) is the leading communications provider in Hong Kong and one of Asia's leading IT&T players. Hong Kong's image as a center of technology excellence continues to be enhanced by PCCW's innovation, especially in new generation fixed-line telephony, broadband, IT, wireless and delivery of home entertainment. Internationally, PCCW provides cutting-edge technical services to network operators, and enables organizations to bring their business to Asia and take Asian business to the rest of the world. To learn more about PCCW, go to www.pccw.com

Incorporated in 1988 and headquartered in Shenzhen, China, Huawei Technologies specializes in the R&D, production and marketing of telecoms equipment, providing customized network solutions in different telecom fields. Huawei is now the largest telecom vendor in China's telecom market and is quickly becoming a leading player in the global telecom market. Currently Huawei provides telecom products and solutions for over 300 operators worldwide and 22 of the world's top 50 operators are using Huawei's products and solutions. Huawei focuses on such areas as WCDMA, CDMA2000, NGN, xDSL and data communications. Huawei has 24,000 employees and sales in 2004 reached 5.58 billion USD.

BT is one of the world's leading providers of communications solutions serving customers in Europe, the Americas and Asia Pacific. Its principal activities include networked IT services, local, national and international telecommunications services, and higher-value broadband and internet products and services.

BT consists principally of three lines of business:

• BT Retail, providing a comprehensive range of communications and related services to more than 20m UK consumers and businesses.
  
  
• BT Wholesale, providing network services and solutions within the UK to more than 600 fixed and mobile operators and service providers including the provision of broadband and private circuits.
  
  
• BT Global Services, providing networked IT services to meet the needs of multi-site organisations globally. BT Global Services operates in more than 130 countries and also offers international carrier services.

In the year ended 31 March 2005, BT Group's turnover was £18,623 million with profit before goodwill amortisation, exceptional items and taxation of£2,085 million.

BT Group plc is listed on stock exchanges in London and New York. British Telecommunications plc (BT) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of BT Group and encompasses virtually all businesses and assets of the BT Group.

For more information, visit www.bt.com

Bronze Sponsors:

Agere Systems is a global leader in semiconductors for storage, wireless data, and public and enterprise networks. The company's chips and software power a broad range of computing and communications applications, from cell phones, PCs, PDAs, hard disk drives and gaming devices to the world's most sophisticated wireless and wireline networks. Agere's customers include top manufacturers of consumer electronics, communications and computing equipment. Agere's products connect people to information and entertainment at home, at work and on the road -- enabling the connected lifestyle.

Premiere Global Services, Inc. (formerly Ptek Holdings, Inc.) provides business communications services and business process solutions that enable enterprise customers to automate and simplify components of their critical business processes and to communicate more effectively with their constituents.

We offer data management and delivery solutions and conferencing and collaboration services on an outsource-basis, hosted on our global proprietary platforms. Customers apply our communication technologies-based solutions to a number of business processes, such as receivables collections, continuing education, alerts and notifications, investor calls, statement and invoice delivery, international collaboration, document automation, and others, in order to increase efficiency, to improve productivity and to raise customer satisfaction levels.

With 2,230 employees in 19 countries around the world, Premiere Global Services has an established customer base of greater than 45,000 corporate accounts, including a majority of the Fortune 500. Our corporate headquarters is located at 3399 Peachtree Road NE, Suite 700, Atlanta, GA 30326. Additional information can be found at www.premiereglobal.com

Official Media Partner:

The Charlton Media Group is a leading business to business publisher based in Singapore and serving global markets in the areas of telecoms & technology, banking, finance & insurance, and power and energy. Our leading news magazine titles serve senior decision makers in these areas throughout
Asia, the Middle East, and the world. With 10 monthly and bi monthly titles published and a growing number of custom magazines, the Charlton Media Group is one of the leading independent publishers in this region. The Charlton Media Group also organizes industry specific events and awards programs for the industries it serves.

Supported by:

Established since 1979, CommunicAsia, an IT & Communications exhibition for Asia is where the business of technology comes to life. Covering a wide spectrum of the ICT industry, CommunicAsia2005 will be held from 14 - 17 June 2005 at Singapore Expo. Incorporated within CommunicAsia2005 are sub-shows MobileCommAsia2005, NetworkAsia2005 and SatComm2005 that cover mobile networks and applications, network technologies and satellite communications respectively.

In 2004, CommunicAsia featured over 1,300 exhibiting companies representing 52 countries/regions and attracted over 45,000 business professionals from 90 nations. The show also hosted over 800 conference speakers and delegates from 65 countries/regions, making it the premier platform for business networking in the ICT industry. CommunicAsia is organised by Singapore Exhibition Services (SES), Asia's top organiser of trade events with a diverse portfolio of exhibitions and conferences in sectors such as Communications, Engineering, Machinery and Lifestyle. For more information, please visit: http://www.communicasia.com/

EnterpriseIT2005 provides innovative IT solutions that help companies lower their cost structures and improve the efficiency of business processes. EnterpriseIT showcases the latest enterprise solutions for industries such as banking, logistics, healthcare, education, transportation, government among others. The exhibition will be held from 14-17 June 2005 at the Singapore Expo in conjunction with CommunicAsia2005, a communications & IT exhibition for Asia.

In 2004, EnterpriseIT and CommunicAsia featured over 1,500 exhibiting companies representing 52 countries and attracted over 45,000 business professionals from 90 nations. EnterpriseIT is organised by Singapore Exhibition Services (SES), Asia's top organiser of trade events with a diverse portfolio of exhibitions and conferences in sectors such as Communications, Engineering, Machinery and Lifestyle. For more information, please visit http://www.goto-enterpriseit.com/