Kuala Lumpur, November 26, 2001 - Kuala Lumpur, Wednesday – Regional communications technology enabler, Unified Communications Sdn. Bhd., today announced the award of two major contracts from China Telecoms & US based, Vocom International Telecommunications Inc. that will increase its revenue by an additional RM24 million within 3 years.

In a deal with China Telecom, Unified will partner China based Mighty Star Ltd., to provide enhanced telecommunications applications to China Telecom’s existing services while Vocom International has engaged Unified to build a network covering North America, North and South East Asia to facilitate its wholesale network traffic operations using Unified’s proprietary "UniLink" system technology.

In the contract with China Telecom, Unified will use its UniLink system to expand the various enhanced services provided by China Telecom in its primary revenue sectors namely its prepaid, postpaid and payphone card telephony systems with plans to upgrade these services to accommodate debit calling, public phone IDD calls and international simple resale services.

With China pressed to open its doors and liberalize its markets in its impending entry into WTO, Unified is well positioned to benefit from the exponential growth of China’s telephony market that already has over 130 million mobile phone subscribers, expanding at a rate of 4% per month.

"China is looking to spend hundreds of millions of US dollars to expand its telecommunications network as a means to prevent overcrowding. Our smart partnership with Mighty Star Ltd., will put us in a good position to capitalize on some of the projects to be placed out." said Wong Tze Leng, Chief Executive Officer Of Unified Communications.

Under the contract with regional service provider, Vocom International Telecommunications, Unified will build a network between the United States, North and South East Asia, allowing Vocom to provide wholesale communication services to local telcos and service providers in a profit sharing agreement.

"Within 3 months of its’ launching, the traffic minutes route through Vocom’s network has been steadily rising from 2 million traffic minutes per month to between 7 to 8 million traffic minutes per month."

"We are confident the network traffic will expand to further support a minimum average of 20 million traffic minutes per month by June next year" added Wong in a statement.

"Unified Communications has the relevant expertise to assist us in building our network to meet the capacity of demand we expect in the near future. Their UniLink system has an excellent track record and we enjoy good technical support from them." said Victor Hwang, Chief Executive Officer Of Vocom International Telecommunications Inc.

Unified Communications is a premier enabler of enhanced communications solutions for telecommunication carriers, service providers and enterprises in the Asia Pacific region with offices in Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia, USA and China.

An MSC status company, Unified is a 25% equity owned division of main board listed Linear Corporation Berhad and 75% owned by local telephony technology entrepreneur, Wong Tze Leng.

Since its inception in 1998, Unified has enjoyed the distinction of being a profitable company from day one of its operations.

Chalking up revenue of RM25.2 million last year, Unified is on target to enjoy a more than 2-fold increase in its revenue this year, estimated to be in the region of RM60 million.

Capping this impressive performance is a marked 4-fold increase in profitability for Unified who is certain to ink more than RM20 million into its books by December 2001.

Impressively increasing its year on year revenue, Unified has attracted imminent suitors leading to its ongoing sale to main board listed heavy weight Advanced Synergy Berhad.

With a healthy growth in turnover, Unified’s Malaysian operations are poised to further add to its coffers by taking advantage of the various corporate tax exemptions offered to it as an MSC status company.

Furthermore, Unified is actively looking into the development of custom communication applications, system integration and consulting services for governments, telcos and business enterprises namely, multinational companies and financial institutions with a product range that include, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) solutions, audio conferencing via traditional phone networks, data collaboration, mobile phone fleet management systems, unified messaging systems, telecommunications network monitoring and fraud management.

"Our strategic partnerships and strong showing will give us a good window of opportunity in China and fuel the ongoing projects we have within the region. We are confident of replicating our performances and maintaining healthy financial results in the near future" added Wong.