Mozcom Powers-Up Philippine Basketball
June 1, 2004

Mozcom signs up the PBA

Manila, Philippines -- Asia's first play-for-pay basketball league, the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA), signs up with Mozcom for the management and maintenance of its online presence. Mozcom will be maintaining the popular www.pba.ph website and extend it to mobile phone users through WAP, MMS and SMS. This new partnership will allow PBA fans to access the latest information on the league from different devices.

"Mozcom is very excited to be working with an institution like the PBA," said Dick Chiang, COO/CTO of Mozcom. "In the coming months, we will be rolling out several new interactive features that will bring the league closer to its fan base. Fans can expect to see new features like chat sessions with the players and video streaming of game highlights."

"We are happy to partner with Mozcom, in an effort to improve - and enhance, -- our Internet presence. The expertise of our new partner will undoubtedly help us in our desire to make the PBA experience complete," Comm. Noli Eala said.

The PBA is the country's first and only professional basketball league. It was formed in 1975. Over the years, it has brought entertainment to the Filipinos and elevated basketball as a national pastime. Its fabled history spans the storied rivalry of Crispa and Toyota during the early days, to the present crop of ten teams vying for the undulated attention of the Filipinos.

Mozcom was established in 1994, making it the Philippines' 1st commercial ISP. Its nationwide pure-IP backbone was the first of its kind, and to this day, provides the infrastructure that runs corporate virtual private networks (VPNs), the campus network of the major educational and research institutions, and provides true dialup roaming for mobile users from Northern Luzon to Southern Mindanao.

Mozcom is expanding to provide total business solutions. It also specializes on open source, XML, Web Services, and mobile technology. Mozcom provides anti-virus and anti-spam protection as standard features of its service. For more information on Mozcom, visit http://www.mozcom.com or call 848-2606.