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Orange in Thailand is testing Novosoft Mobile Instant Messenger

Novosibirsk, Russia - November 1, 2002

Novosoft LLC. announced that Orange, one of the world's leading cellular operators, had started testing in Thailand Novosoft Mobile Instant Messenger, an Instant Messaging and Mobile Presence Service enabling GSM subscribers to use ICQ on their cell phones.

Novosoft Mobile Instant Messenger lets users to exchange online messages, manage contact lists, monitor other users' presense status, search contacts in ICQ database, block spam messages and use national character sets. Orange subscribers in Thailand will be able to send and receive messages in Thai language.

Orange (www.orange.com) is one of the world’s leading communications companies with operations in 22 countries across Europe and beyond. Since March 2002 Orange has been operating its GSM1800/GPRS network in Thailand, with more than 850.000 subscribers to date (November 2002).

Novosoft Mobile Instant Messenger (or MIM) is functioning in Novosibirsk network of Mobile TeleSystems (NYSE: MBT), Russia’s leading cellular operator, since November 2001, seamlessly processing constantly growing text traffic. In the analytical report 2001: Leaders And Technologies Of the Year, published by CNews.ru, Novosoft Mobile Instant Messenger has been acknowledged as "the most impressive achievement of Russian software developers".

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