Novatium plans aggressive expansion across India

Making powerful computing affordable

Expects 200,000 users by the end of FY10
Already launched in 12 Cities in partnership with BSNL
Vision to empower every Indian household with the power
of computing
Ministry of IT and Communications sees Nova netPC as a world-class innovation for Indian computing

New Delhi, May 22nd, 2009 – Novatium Solutions Private Limited, world’s first managed computing services provider, has unveiled aggressive plans to expand in Indian market. For this the company has partnered with BSNL, MTNL and Tata Teleservices. The company expects to close the financial year with more than two lakh subscribers.

The company has come a long way since they launched the world’s first $100 PC- the netPC- in partnership with MTNL. Apart from various variants of the netPC, Novatium had also launched world’s first platform independent device, Nova Navigator, few months back.

Novatium provides always powerful, zero maintenance computing services at affordable value for money prices starting from Rs 2999/- for the netPC with monthly charges starting from Rs. 175 across India. The services include comprehensive computing experience with special emphasis on Internet, gaming, digital entertainment, online education, telephony and business productivity.

Mr. Alok Singh, CEO, Novatium Solutions Pvt. Ltd. said, “India is on the verge of witnessing a computing revolution and we hope to be its engine. Our products netPC and navigators coupled with our unique business model has the potential to revolutionize the entire computing market. We are getting encouraging responses from subscribers and expect tremendous growth in the current fiscal.”

Novatium’s netPC was launched back in early 2007 in K.K. Nagar, Chennai through Novatium’s own server as a pilot project. Later in September 2007, it was launched in New Delhi in partnership with MTNL. The Nova netPC has seen tremendous growth rate since the with the subscriber base being tripled in the last financial year. The Nova Navigator has also received a very good response from the users since its launch in September last year.

Novatium has already been launched in the following cities with (BSNL circle):

· Chennai

· Tamilnadu

· Bangalore

· Bhubaneswar

· Raipur

· Dehradun

· Lucknow

· Ambala

· Dimapur

· Agartala

· Trivandrum

About Novatium Solutions Pvt.Ltd.

Novatium is the leading provider of rich computing services in the country. Novatium builds affordable and simple computing platform to provide comprehensive computing solutions. Novatium’s core strength lies in their management team which has a pool of expertise centered on competency areas like product development, solutions, sales and marketing. Novatium has top-of-the-line expertise in core computing environments like Linux development, hardware platform, media processing, product testing, research in networking and audio/video technology, network administration, Linux/Windows system administration, Linux internals, programming and X windows. The company has two platforms of services for the country, Nova netPC and Nova Navigator with all India availability.