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Amp'd Mobile and airG to Launch the Amp'd Lounge Mobile Community

Six Million Australians Can Now Join the Fastest Growing Social Network on Mobile Phones

VANCOUVER, British Columbia - March 7, 2006 – airG , the global leader in powering mobile communities and wireless social networking, announced today it is working with Amp’d Mobile, the first fully integrated mobile entertainment company for youth and young adults, to launch the Amp’d Lounge mobile community. With Amp’d Lounge, Amp’d Mobile members can join one of the leading mobile communities on mobile phones, where they can chat, flirt, date, and make new friends using key product features such as picture profiles, public and private messaging, powerful search tools plus fun promotions and contests.

“We are extremely pleased to be powering Amp’d Lounge, which has been optimized within BREW especially for Amp’d Mobile’s 3G service, and enables instant communication between multiple mobile users simultaneously,” said Frederick Ghahramani, director, airG . “airG ’s mobile community products have proven highly effective for acquiring new customers and generating recurring revenues, and we look forward to helping Amp’d Mobile grow its mobile entertainment service offering with Amp’d Lounge.”

“Amp’d Mobile is committed to deploying cutting edge social and media experiences across all content categories,” said Lindsay Knaub, executive producer, lifestyle content, Amp’d Mobile. “airG is a proven leader in mobile communities and we look forward to deploying unique Amp’d branded social networking applications cross platform, while leveraging the unique capabilities of our broadband wireless service.”

Amp’d Mobile is the U.S.’s first fully integrated mobile entertainment company created specifically for broadband wireless and the youth/young adult market. Amp’d offers traditional wireless services such as voice and text along with a totally new proprietary user interface (UI), built on BREW® 3.1, for quick and easy access to a wealth of unique, edgy 3G content across music, games, sports, entertainment, news, lifestyles and much more.

Ghahramani added, “Amp’d Mobile’s strong affinity with the youth market is a great fit with airG ’s proven expertise in reaching this valuable demographic, as evidenced by our bringing together more than seven million registered users worldwide in our mobile social networking products.”

Amp’d Lounge will be available to all Amp’d Mobile members with BREW® enabled handsets and can be accessed by going to www.ampd.com.

 

About airG

airG powers mobile communities and wireless social networking. The company’s products and services have a proven track record of increasing customer affinity for leading mobile operators and media companies globally including Sprint Nextel, Cingular, Virgin Mobile, Orange and MTV Asia. airG ’s mobile community has more than seven million registered users worldwide and is available on more than 85 mobile operators. Based in Vancouver, Canada, the company also has offices in the UK and Australia. www.airg.com

Media Contact:

Allison Webb
airG +1-604-408-2228 ext. 125
allisonw AT airG .com