GRIC and Nexon Asia Pacific in Strategic Agreement to Market Global Access and Wi-Fi to Australian Enterprise Customers

Companies Plan Joint Promotions of Wi-Fi Services to Australian Businesses

MILPITAS, Calif. and SYDNEY, Australia, May 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- GRIC Communications (NASDAQ:GRIC) , a leading provider of Internet-based mobile office communications solutions, and Nexon Asia Pacific, a leading information, communication and technology (ICT) service provider, today announced a strategic alliance to offer global access including Wi-Fi to Nexon's corporate enterprise customers in Australia.

Nexon, whose customers include some of Australia's largest companies and government departments, as well as Fortune 500 companies doing business in Asia, will offer GRIC's global access services to its corporate customers, along with its own suite of IT services which includes access, hosting, managed VPN and consulting. Building on their existing resale agreement, the two companies agreed to actively cooperate to encourage Wi-Fi usage among enterprise customers through joint promotions, seminars, and other marketing and sales activities.


"Our agreement with GRIC allows us to provide our enterprise customers with the ability to stay connected and productive when they are working away from their offices," said Barry Asaf, President and Chief Executive Officer of Nexon. "Best of all, they have the assurance that they will always have the ability to gain that access using the latest, highest-speed technologies available, such as Wi-Fi."


"Nexon Asia Pacific is a high-quality provider of critical IT services for corporate enterprises, and an ideal partner for GRIC in Australia," said Kelly Anderson, GRIC Senior Vice President, Global Sales and Marketing. "Together we can deliver a complete set of reliable, flexible, and tailored solutions for enterprise customers."


About Nexon


Nexon is one of Asia's leading and fastest growing service providers and a leading supplier of IT&T infrastructure and services. Nexon also supplies Internet, broadband and security-based solutions and products. In the last 12 months, Nexon's net sales have more than doubled, despite turbulent market conditions and increasing competition at all levels. Through a unique combination of strong industry and vendor relationships, backed by client-focused and professional staff, Nexon creates new opportunities and value for its customers and partners by deploying Best of Breed IP Technologies and superior Professional Services and Support.


About GRIC Communications, Inc.


GRIC Communications, Inc. is a leading provider of Internet-based mobile office communications solutions for enterprise customers. The GRIC MobileOffice(TM) solution delivers -- reliably and securely -- to business individuals, who are traveling or working remotely, the same set of services they have access to when they are working in a central office, thus allowing them to work productively and efficiently wherever they happen to be. The GRIC TierOne Network(TM) of more than 300 top-tier service providers provides end users remote Internet access through more than 20,000 wired and wireless access points in more than 150 countries. A member of the Wi-Fi Alliance, GRIC continues to pioneer roaming and remote Internet access via Wi-Fi and other broadband solutions. GRIC's broadband network now includes nearly 1,500 Wi-Fi and wired Ethernet access locations in 14 countries worldwide, including 75 airport locations, 11 convention centers and 485 hotels.


This news release may include "forward-looking" statements, including projections about the business of GRIC Communications, Inc., within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. For example, statements in the future tense are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based on information available to us at the time of the release and we assume no obligation to update any such forward-looking statements.

The statements in this release are not guarantees of future performance and actual results could differ materially from our current expectations as a result of numerous factors, including unforeseen issues as Nexon integrates our bundled solution into their service offering, uncertainty whether customers in Australia will adopt the resulting integrated product solution, and the emergence of competing secure access technologies, protocols and delivery platforms. These and other risks and uncertainties associated with our business are detailed in our most recent reports on Form 10-K and Form 10-Q on file with the SEC and available through http://www.sec.gov.


NOTE: GRIC, GRIC TierOne Network, GRIC Secure Access, GRIC Managed VPN, GRIC MobileOffice and the GRIC logo are trademarks of GRIC Communications, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners.


Source: GRIC Communications, Inc.

CONTACT: Richard Rossi of GRIC Communications, Inc., +1-408-965-1144, or rrossi@gric.com


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