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Bridgewater expands in Asia Pacific with New India Center of Excellence

New Delhi, 18 May, 2010

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Bridgewater Systems (TSX: BWC), the mobile personalization company, today announced the opening of a new Center of Excellence in collaboration with Wesley Clover in Gurgaon, Delhi NCR, India at a ceremony in New Delhi.

The opening ceremony, officiated by Ed Ogonek, Bridgewater President and CEO, Parminder Singh, Head of India Business Development, Raj Narula, Director at Wesley Clover, and Mr. Mario Ste-Marie, Minister (Commercial) and Program Manager (India), Canadian High Commission, is taking place at Le Meridien Windsor Place hotel in New Delhi.

The Center of Excellence will serve as the hub for the Asia Pacific region in three key areas:

• Mobile data technology development for Bridgewater’s intelligent control products;
  
  
• Sales and customer support; and
  
  
• Professional services.

India is one of the top two mobile markets in the world with over half a billion mobile subscribers. The recent 3G and 4G auctions will enable operators to deliver advanced mobile data services to subscribers and meet the government target of achieving 100 million broadband subscribers by 2014 from the February 2010 level of 8.6 million users.

The new office is located at Udyog Vihar, Gurgaon.

Ed Ogonek, President and CEO, Bridgewater Systems, said, “Bridgewater’s new center of excellence in India is a key part of our strategy to expand globally. India’s rapidly growing mobile data market and advanced R&D skills are central to our success. The center of excellence will provide technology development for our global product portfolio and offer sales, professional and support services for our customers and partners across the Asia Pacific region.”

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