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ACE*COMM Corporation (NASDAQ:ACEC) today announced its participation in Project K-Nect, an unprecedented educational initiative that combines public education systems with technology and telecommunications innovators to deploy smart-phone devices as supplemental educational tools. Project K-Nect takes advantage of new Web 2.0 and social networking technology to deliver supplemental education material and to facilitate peer-to-peer interaction for selected ninth-grade students in North Carolina. The project helps bridge the digital divide by placing sophisticated tools and �always on� broadband access with students that may otherwise be disconnected. The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI) along with QUALCOMM through its Wireless ReachTM initiative and Digital Millennial Consulting (DMC) are the core development team for Project K-Nect. For this project, ACE*COMM�s Parent Patrol� managed mobility service provides the mobile access controls to address educators� and parents� concerns about mobile phone use. �ACE*COMM provides both industry-leading technology to control mobile phones and the commitment to work in a team dedicated to providing long lasting social benefits� said Shawn Gross, managing director of DMC �We felt that ACE*COMM offered an advanced solution unrivalled in the industry and found that their research complemented many of our own findings.� �ACE*COMM is delighted to participate in such a ground-breaking initiative,� said Jonjie Sena, ACE*COMM director of product management. �Our independent research has clearly exposed many conflicting positions on the issue of children and mobile phones. Our findings related to parental and business concerns are paralleled in the education sector. ACE*COMM offers features that provide control of mobile phone access and filter freely available content that has direct application across many industries and market segments. We provide a simple and elegant solution to the school environment for competing desires to communicate and at the same time, prevent mobile access abuses like bullying, cheating and stalking. We feel this technology addresses concerns, that are causing school boards to ban mobile phones, in a much more flexible and equitable manner.� Parent Patrol from ACE*COMM helps parents and school administrators balance access with safety. Parent Patrol is a policy enforcement tool that lets authorized individuals personalize each child�s phone use, independent of the handset choice, for voice, messaging, video and data services. Delegated access management allows authorized individuals to specify what times of day their kids can use their mobile phones, when services like text messaging are not allowed, what mobile Web content should be blocked and can even disable selected features on a handset. About ACE*COMM ACE*COMM is a global provider of advanced operations support systems (OSS) and service delivery solutions for telecommunications service providers and enterprises. ACE*COMM�s solutions are applicable to a range of legacy through next-generation networks that include wired, wireless, voice, data, multimedia and Internet communications networks. These solutions provide the analytical tools required to extract knowledge from operating networks � knowledge that network operators use for asset recovery and revenue assurance, cost reduction, improved operational efficiency, acceleration of time to market for new services, and more effective customer care. ACE*COMM�s service delivery solutions provide mobile service providers with award-winning, in-demand consumer-oriented services to help them achieve and sustain market share, generate new revenue and position themselves as market innovators. For more than 20 years, ACE*COMM technology has been effectively deployed for more than 300 customers, spanning more than 4000 installations in 70 countries worldwide. ACE*COMM-installed products are currently enabling the success of customers and partners such as Alcatel, AT&T, Cisco, General Dynamics, IBM, Level 3 Communications, Marconi, Motorola, Northrop Grumman, Siemens, and Unisys. Headquartered in Gaithersburg, MD, near Washington, DC, ACE*COMM has corporate offices in Australia, Canada, China, and the UK. ACE*COMM is an ISO 9001 quality standard compliant company. For more information, visit www.acecomm.com. About Project K-Nect Project K-Nect is designed to create a supplemental resource for at-risk secondary students to focus on increasing their math skills through a common and popular technology � mobile smartphones. Ninth graders in several public schools in the State of North Carolina will receive smartphones to access supplemental math content aligned with their teachers� lesson plans and course objectives. Students also will have the opportunity to communicate and collaborate with each other and access tutors outside of the school day to help them master math skills and knowledge. The smartphones and service will be free of charge to the students and their schools due to a USD $1 million grant provided by QUALCOMM, as part of its Wireless Reach� initiative. ACE*COMM, the ACE*COMM logo and Parent Patrol are registered trademarks of ACE*COMM Corporation. Content Patrol, Enterprise Patrol and Patrol Suite are trademarks of ACE*COMM Corporation. Except for historical information, the matters discussed in this news release include forward-looking statements that are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause the actual results to differ materially from those projected, including, but not limited to: the failure of anticipated demand to materialize, delays or cancellations of orders due to various factors, including business and economic conditions in the U.S. and foreign countries; industry-wide slowdowns, any limitations on customers� financial resources, the continued convergence of voice and data networks, the continuing success of the Company�s strategic alliances for product development and marketing, customer purchasing and budgetary patterns or lack thereof; pricing pressures and the impact of competitive products; the timely development and acceptance of new products; the Company�s ability to adequately support its operations, and other risks detailed from time to time in the Company�s Report on Form 10-Q and other reports filed with the Securities Exchange Commission. 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