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Name: Evanna Kearins
 
Address: Glencormack Business Park
  Kilmacanogue, Co. Wicklow
  Ireland
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Web: http://www.network365.com
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Basic facts
 
Founded 1999
CEO Raomal Perera
Employees +70
Sector Other
 
Company profile
 
About Network365 Ltd.
Network365, Best Wireless Application Developer; GSM Association Awards 2002, enables the mobile lifestyle with mzone(TM), a secure payments, personalization and identification platform. Founded in 1999, the company is headquartered in Ireland and has offices in Japan, Italy, Hong Kong, the UK, Latin America and the USA. Since its foundation, Network365 has garnered worldwide acclaim for its broad, yet focused, wireless product strategy and has developed unique skills by concentrating exclusively on the requirements of the mobile market. As an increasing number of network operators, financial institutions and enterprises roll-out high speed data services on mobile devices, Network365 is increasingly becoming the partner of choice to supply profitable, scalable and secure mobile data services.

Products
The mzone product set is a complete mobile payments solution that addresses all the elements of the mobile Internet value chain from secure, personalized payment and identification to advanced messaging.

Central to mzone is mzone avatar, a mobile platform which enables secure payment, personalization and
identification. In order to extend mobile payment services to messaging environments, Network365 has
developed an advanced delivery platform, called mzone agora. With the capability to operate in global markets, mzone is designed to allow wireless operators, banks and enterprises to deliver mobile payment solutions from a single source to any device, network or browser. mzone interfaces with existing payment systems and supports the delivery of content and functionality over global protocols including WAP, web, I-mode, J Sky Web, EZ web, SMS and MMS.

Customers
Network365 has a number of customers in a range of industry sectors. Key blue-chip customers include:

Hutchison 3G, a subsidiary of Hong Kong's Hutchison Whampoa, has chosen Network365's mobile payment platform, mzone avatar, to deliver secure payment services to its customers. This will enable Hutchison 3G's customers to make payments from their 3G device using a variety of payment options. The Network365 solution is initially being deployed by Hutchison in the UK and then in other countries where Hutchison Whampoa has 3G interests including Italy, Sweden, Denmark, Austria, Australia and Hong Kong. www.hutchison3g.com

Hong Kong CSL Ltd is a joint venture of Telstra and Pacific Century Cyberworks and was voted Best Asian GSM Operator in 2001. CSL has installed the mzone avatar secure mobile wallet to allow their customers to make easy and secure payments from their mobile phones and PDAs. mzone avatar is integrated with several merchants and a payments system provided by Bank of China. www.hkcsl.com

Taito Corporation is Japan's leading developer and publisher of interactive entertainment software. Taito has chosen mzone to introduce a new mobile loyalty program for arcade gaming, karaoke, restaurants, mobile content downloads and online shopping in Japan. This will enable Taito to attract new customers by awarding points based on the level of usage of their products and services, offering membership and promoting sales via mobile phones. The agreement was secured with Network365's solutions partner, TIS Corporation, the leading Japanese Information Services Corporation, who recently formed a strategic alliance with Network365. www.taito.co.jp

O2 - a subsidiary of mmO2 and formerly BT Wireless, has been offering mobile commerce applications using mzone since 2000. As well as offering flowers, CDs and other gifts, event tickets are available in Ireland courtesy of an on-line integration between O2 (formerly Digifone) and Ticketmaster. The mzone avatar secure mobile wallet is integrated with the O2 portal allowing easy and secure payment. mmO2 was also awarded the licence to operate Europe's first 3G service in 1999 and Network365 was chosen to supply mobile commerce and device identification infrastructure with its mzone product suite. www.mmo2.com

Oskar in the Czech Republic is the brand name of Cesky Mobil a.s., part of Canadian-based Telesystem International Wireless (TIW). The company selected Network365's mzone agora to deploy and control innovative applications using SMS messaging, in categories such as media services, infotainment, digital content and community building. www.oskarmobil.cz

Celltel Lanka, a unit of Millicom International, is Sri Lanka's first cellular network and offers an innovative bill payment service for its contract or post-paid customers. Celltel uses mzone agora to extend this service to a range of phones and PDAs using a combination of email and SMS. www.celltel.lk

Meteor Mobile Communications in Ireland, a unit of Western Wireless International, selected mzone kiosk to sell mobile packages both on the web and by phone. The system, in use since the network launch, is integrated with Bank of Ireland's payment gateway and logistics processing from Sigma Wireless. www.meteor.ie

Partners
mzone unity Partner Program
mzone unity is Network365's world-class partner program, designed to forge strong, mutually beneficial relationships between Network365 and partner organizations across the globe. It is designed to work with the world&'s leading systems integrators, network operators, service providers, technology companies and channel partners to deliver the best wireless solutions and total mobile infrastructure to customers.

The mzone unity partner program offers partners a world-class product suite together with the knowledge transfer of a wide range of technical, marketing and sales expertize. The all encompassing educational program and resources that are an integral component of the mzone unity partner program ensures that Network365's partners have the necessary skills and support to sell and deploy mzone effectively and efficiently.

Key partners include:
Strategic & Business Partners: Hewlett Packard (Japan), Logica, PWC, Bull (France), PNM Solutions (Hong Kong), TIS (Japan)

Technology Partnerships: Sun Microsystems (Platforms); Oracle (Databases and Application Servers); BEA WebLogic (Application Servers); VeriSign (Digital Certificates); Nokia; Ericsson (GPRS Testing)

Developer Partnerships: hSenid (Sri Lanka), Imagine Software (Ireland), Wolfpac (Philippines), Reply (Italy)

Standards and Industry Bodies: GSM Association (Applications Developers Group); SyncML, Java
Community Process; Mobile Payments Forum; PayCircle; Liberty Alliance

For more information, please visit: www.network365.com


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