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Enters long-term partnership with leading Colombian operator

[Bogota, Colombia －7 September 2006] Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. ("Huawei"), a leader in providing next generation telecommunications network solutions for operators around the world, today announced it has won a GSM core network expansion contract with Colombia Movil, Colombia's the third biggest mobile operator to enable the company to bring enhanced services to over 560,000 users across Colombia's five biggest cities of Medellin, Cali, Bucaramanga, Barranquilla, as well as its capital Bogota.

Colombia Movil, a leading mobile operator in Colombia, created by Bogota Telecommunication Enterprise (ETB) and Medellin Public Enterprise (EPM) serves 2.5 million mobile subscribers. This new expansion contract will be Huawei's largest mobile softswitch network in Latin America and extend the capacity of Colombia Movil's core network to over one million subscribers.

"Huawei is committed to bringing excellent services and innovative technologies to the Colombian market." said Mr. Yafei Jiang, President of Huawei Regional Division in Latin America. "This contract will further enhance the cooperation between the Huawei and Colombia Movil, and strengthen Huawei's position as the leading provider of mobile network solutions."

Huawei is the leader of mobile softswitch networks worldwide, and the first to introduce 3G technology to enhance GSM network performance, providing 3G-like service over a 2G network. Huawei mobile softswitch networks deliver excellent user-experience and help operators to maximize their value and profit by lowering network construction costs and the network life-cycle operation and maintenance expenditures.

To date, Huawei's Mobile Softswitches serve over 100 million subscribers, and Huawei has deployed more than five hundred thousand TRX applications with large-scale networking and swapping experiences in complex wireless environments.


About Colombia Movil S.A.

Colombia Movil S.A. was born two years ago with its Trade Mark OLA, becoming mainstream mobile operator in Colombia, and in the only 100% Colombian mobile company. With its birthday operation celebration (Nov 2003 – 2006), the users number reach 2.5 million of people. Colombia Movil is an enterprise with more than 700 million dollars, has generated 5 thousand of direct and non-direct employees, and the most important: it opens to more Colombian people the access to the mobile telephony services and change their habits in a really short time.