Openmind Networks Awarded CITIC1616 SMS & MMS Hubbing Contracts.

Dublin, Ireland, May 2007 – Alex Duncan, CEO of Openmind Networks, announced that CITIC1616 Holdings Ltd have awarded Openmind Networks the contract to provide enhanced SMS & MMS hubbing services.

The CITIC 1616 SMS & MMS Interworking Gateway (SMS/MMS-IG) Service provides SMS and MMS routing, interoperability, translations and management across technologies for ubiquitous messaging services among wireless operators. CITIC1616 is an international telecoms carrier providing voice and messaging exchange to mobile operators across Asia.

"Openmind Networks is delighted to partner with CITIC1616 to provide their mobile operator customers with enhanced SMS & MMS interoperability services. Our Traffic Control message router allows CITIC1616 to meet the existing SMS and MMS business requirements and also is highly expandable for future business requirements," said Alex Duncan, CEO, Openmind Networks.

"CITIC 1616 and Openmind Networks have been working closely together on the SMS & MMS hubbing projects." said Jimmy Wong, Director of Engineering, CITIC 1616. "CITIC 1616 have chosen Traffic Control, Openmind Networks’ multi-protocol message router to strengthen our service offering and provide scalability as our business grows with the CITIC1616 global mobile operator base.”

Traffic Control has been designed by Openmind Networks to provide intelligent inter- and intra-operator message routing for SMS, MMS and IMS services in a telecom network. Openmind Networks has developed a suite of product extensions that extend the underlying capabilities of Traffic Control to address key business areas including spam and privacy protection, personalised service support and adaptation to standard compliant application servers.