Carrier Devices to launch new addition to i-mate product range at GITEX Dubai 2003

Notes and media contacts

About Carrier Services ME FZ-LLC:
Founded in 2001, Carrier Devices has gone from strength to strength to become one of the worlds leading specialists in collaborative design and development, and the integration of innovative, fully certified, wireless hand held devices and accessible services for the world mobile market. In February 2003 Carrier Devices launched the first worldwide standard accreditation and certification service for mobile applications and devices. Carrier Devices offer customers' reliability of data, security of device and data, and an optional single framework for all lifestyle activities.

The Microsoft® Windows Mobile™ based products offered are second to none. The i-mate™ range of devices are sleek in their design and offer a full Microsoft® suite of application such as email, internet, MP3 player, Instant Messenger and more. With their unique blending of voice and data, they maximise the user's ability to display information, be organised and stay in-touch anywhere; and with inter-operability to users desktops or laptops they are some of the most powerful and expandable devices on the market. In providing exclusive category defining devices, Carrier Devices are strategically placed with partners and networks to create a dedicated boutique sales channel throughout the world.

About Dubai Internet City:
Dubai Internet City (DIC) provides a Knowledge Economy Ecosystem designed to support the business development of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) companies. It is the Middle East's biggest IT infrastructure, built inside a free trade zone and has the largest commercial Internet Protocol Telephony system in the world. DIC is a strategic base for companies targeting emerging markets in a vast region extending from the Middle East to the Indian subcontinent, and Africa to the CIS countries, covering 1.8 billion people with a GDP of $1.5 trillion. In line with Dubai's liberal economic policies and regulations, DIC offers foreign companies 100% tax-free ownership, 100% repatriation of capital and profits, no currency restrictions, easy registration and licensing, stringent cyber regulations and protection of intellectual property.

Within a short span of time, a dynamic international community of ICT companies has established itself in DIC. The global ICT giants are all here: Microsoft, Oracle, HP, IBM, Compaq, Dell, Siemens, Canon, Logica, Sony Ericsson, Schlumberger and Cisco, to name just a few. These companies represent a formidable community of over 14,000 knowledge workers. The cluster of ICT companies in DIC comprise of Software Development, Business Services, Web Based & e-Commerce, Consultancy, Education & Training, Sales & Marketing and Back Office Operations. DIC provides a scalable state-of-the-art technology platform to companies looking to provide cost effective Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) Services such as call centre operations.

Carrier Devices Contact:
Claire Towlson
Sales & Marketing Operations Manager
Tel: +971 (0)4 391 1989
Fax: +971 (0)4 391 4428

Press Contact:
Nadine Salem / Kate Martin
Gambate! Communications
Tel: +971 4 391 6424