ASIA ONLINE LIMITED

Asia Online, Ltd. is a finance and holding company launched in late 1998 to build a pan-Asia Pacific network of Internet companies. The Company is dedicated to the facilitation of reliable communications for the development of Asian business and culture, worldwide. Asia Online offers a variety of Internet-related services including dial-up Internet access, leased lines, ISDN, roaming, Web development and hosting services, advertising and e-commerce capabilities. Through its technology partn... erships, Asia Online plans to offer Internet-based communications solutions including voice-over-IP, Internet fax, and Web-based Intranets/Extranets to domestic and international customers. The company has taken a leading role as an applications service provider (ASP) targeting the broad range of small to medium sized enterprises (SME's), with focus on niche and vertical markets. Asia Online is credited with a number of Internet industry firsts. These milestones include being the first ISP to establish direct links to other Asian countries, the first to set up its own facility in the U.S. to better distribute Asian content to an American audience, and the first company in the world to license RealAudio for the Internet. The Company’s investors include SOFTBANK Technology Ventures, J.P. Morgan International Capital, Pequot Capital Management, Nexus Capital Partners, GE Capital Finance, Interliant and Concentric Network.More