Kirusa Chairman and CEO Inderpal Singh Mumick named one of the 150 pioneers of communications by Voice & Data magazine

Tuesday, December 26, 2006: New Providence, New Jersey: In its 150th special issue Voice & Data, the leading Telecom Magazine in India, has named Kirusa Chairman and CEO Inderpal Singh Mumick, one of the 150 pioneers of communications.

This honor comes at a time when Kirusa is poised to take advantage of Asia’s rapid response to Voice SMS service. Incidentally Kirusa is also a pioneer of Voice SMS solution in the world market.

Terming Dr. Inderpal Singh Mumick as a Billing Specialist, the magazine mentions his pioneering work on the Sunrise Research project at AT&T. The Sunrise project led to numerous billing initiatives at AT&T and Lucent.

The magazine goes on to mention that Dr. Mumick is the author of several key patents in the area of billing, query optimization and materialized views.

Dr. Mumick, a PhD holder in computer science from Stanford University, is an international authority on materialized views technology, and his work on materialized views has influenced the implementation of materialized views in the Oracle 8i database.

Kirusa Voice SMS has seen spectacular success in Bangladesh with over 4 million users experiencing Kirusa Voice SMS. Kirusa is set to repeat this success with foray into India, Pakistan, South Asia, Middle East, Europe, and American markets.

About Kirusa’s Voice SMS solution - KV.SMS

KV.SMS™ enables mobile users to send SMS messages with voice and reply to SMS messages with voice. The solution is based on Kirusa’s patent pending technology, and works on all handsets and networks. KV.SMS features the industry’s most intuitive user interface as well as many traffic-stimulating features, such as its Click2Listen™ feature for one-click listen and reply, MMS integration, voice information services, and interconnection between mobile network operators. KV.SMS can be deployed in a matter of weeks, and its fast user adoption has led to explosive revenue growth for Kirusa’s customers.

About Kirusa

Kirusa is one of the leading global developers of Mobile Social Media and Value Added Services enabling mobile subscribers to reach out to their family and friends. Kirusa’s solutions include the hugely successful Kirusa Voice SMS service, the world’s most advanced Voice SMS solution, used by over 30 carriers around the world. Kirusa has pioneered a suite of social media applications that facilitate mobile subscribers to interact through voice, including the Call-n-Tweet application which helps users update their Twitter status using voice. Kirusa provides an open platform with APIs to enable third parties to offer mobile applications services to mobile subscribers. Used by mobile subscribers millions of times daily, Kirusa solutions are built on its patented and patent pending technology and its highly reliable and scalable open multimodal platform. Kirusa has been recognized as one of top 100 technology companies by Silicon India, and one of top 25 emerging technology companies by Smart Techie magazine. Headquartered in New Jersey and led by an experienced team of wireless telecom executives and technologists, Kirusa has offices in three continents. ‘Kirusa Voice SMS,’ is a trademark of Kirusa, Inc.

For more information visit: www.kirusa.com.

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