GRIC CEO to Tell High Technology Executives That Asia Leads the World in Wireless; Widespread Business Adoption Still Depends on Deployment of Access Points, Applications, and Security.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

Asian Technology Roundtable Exhibition

SEOUL, South Korea--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 10, 2002

The rest of the world looks to Asia for examples of how to deploy broadband wireless and other broadband technologies successfully, Hong Chen, Chief Executive Officer of GRIC Communications, Inc.(Nasdaq:GRIC) will tell Asian high technology executives at the Asian Technology Roundtable Exhibition (ATRE).

In his keynote address and later in a panel discussion, Dr. Chen will discuss the level of broadband wireless activity in Asia and how it far surpasses that of the rest of the world combined. ATRE attracts CEOs and other senior executives from a cross section of Asian high tech companies and financial services companies. Other speakers include John Schwartz, President of Symantec, Sang Chul Lee, CEO of Korea Telecom, and Seung Taik Yang, Minister of Information & Communication.

"At GRIC we are actively negotiating with service providers from all over the world as we extend the scope of the GRIC TierOne Network to encompass broadband technologies," Chen said. "We find not only greater numbers of service providers in Asia, but a greater diversity. They range from large well established traditional telcos to small entrepreneurial companies. We have already signed roaming agreements with half a dozen service providers in Asia and we anticipate signing agreements with several more in the very near future."

"We are also finding significant levels of interest among corporate enterprises in such technologies as broadband wireless," he said. "But corporate IT managers want to see a number of things happen before committing substantial resources to giving their mobile professionals broadband wireless access. These include an expansion of the number of broadband wireless access points, improvements in security, and more useful applications. Fortunately the industry is making significant progress in all these areas."

About GRIC Communications, Inc.

GRIC Communications, Inc. is a leading provider of Internet-based mobile office communications services for enterprise customers and telecommunications providers. GRIC's Mobile Office 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 17,000 wired and wireless access points in more than 150 countries. A founding member and vice-chair of the WECA sub-committee Wireless Internet Service Provider roaming (WISPr), GRIC continues to pioneer roaming and remote Internet access via Wi-Fi, and provides its customers the ability to take advantage of broadband access points such as wireless hotspots using its leading mobile office communications solutions.

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