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Bytemobile Staffs Dedicated Sales Team in India

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., - September 4, 2008

Bytemobile, Inc., the global leader in mobile internet solutions for network operators, today announced the appointments of Aman Khupsare as sales manager and Amaresh Sawant as sales engineer of the company’s new team in India. Based in Mumbai, Khupsare and Sawant are responsible for all new customer sales and management of existing Bytemobile accounts throughout India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

“India and the surrounding countries constitute one of the world’s fastest growing regions for the adoption and usage of mobile data,” said John Cole, Bytemobile vice president and general manager, Asia Pacific. “Our mission is to enable network operators throughout the region to deliver a rich, fast, safe open internet experience to their subscribers on any mobile device, from mass-market handsets to laptops. With solid track records in the Indian computer and telecommunications segments, Aman Khupsare and Amaresh Sawant will focus our sales and account management efforts with a local presence.”

According to industry sources, India currently has approximately 290 million mobile phones in service, representing 26% market penetration. Approximately six million new devices are being added each month, and penetration is expected to reach 500 million by 2010.

Local Presence, Global Footprint

Aman Khupsare, sales manager, joins Bytemobile from Actix India, where he was country sales director responsible for large accounts and sales pipeline development. Previously, he was account manager for Large Enterprise Acquisition at Lenovo India, agency development manager at Tata AIG Life Insurance, and a project manager at Motorola India. He holds a M.B.A. degree in Marketing and a B.S. degree in Chemistry from the University of Mumbai.

Amaresh Sawant, sales engineer, joins Bytemobile from Roamware, where he served as pre-sales software engineer for value-added services. Prior to Roamware, he was a business support systems engineer for Nokia India and Bharti Cellular (Airtel). He holds a master’s degree in IT – Advanced Networking and Telecommunications from the International Institute of Information Technology and a bachelor’s degree in Engineering from Tatyasaheb Kore Institute of Engineering and Technology.

Bytemobile provides wireless network operators with a seamlessly integrated suite of products for delivery of optimized data, web and multimedia services, with mobile advertising and parental controls, to consumers on all mobile devices. Deployed in the central data path of the operator’s network, these products are designed to ensure a compelling user experience on the world’s leading mobile browsers for both clientless and client-server applications. As a core technology, Bytemobile’s dynamic optimization reduces data volumes to increase network efficiency and capacity and accelerate handset and laptop traffic.

Today, Bytemobile’s network installations span 96 operators in 53 countries, serving more than one billion subscribers, and 12 of the world’s 15 largest tier-one operators. Bytemobile estimates that total data traffic on its customers’ networks is growing at a rate of 10-15% per month.

About Bytemobile, Inc.

Bytemobile is a tier-one provider of integrated mobile internet solutions which optimize the delivery of data, web, multimedia, advertising, and filtering services to consumers on mass-market cellular phones, feature phones, smartphones, and laptops. Bytemobile® solutions are installed in the networks of leading operators such as AT&T, China Mobile, China Unicom, KDDI, KPN, Orange, Sprint Nextel,
T-Mobile, Telecom Italia Mobile, Telefónica O2, TeliaSonera, Vodafone, and WILLCOM. Bytemobile is a privately held company headquartered in Mountain View, California. The company has regional sales and support offices in Wokingham, U.K.; Dubai, U.A.E.; Tokyo, Japan; Beijing, China; Singapore; and Chatswood, Australia; and research and development centers in Patras, Greece and Champaign, Illinois. To learn more about Bytemobile, visit the company’s website at www.bytemobile.com.

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