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December 5th, 2008

Alternet Systems, Inc.'s Transtech de Guatemala, S.A. Hosts Association of Urban Buses of the City of Guatemala on Chinese Trade Mission

MIAMI, FL -- (Marketwire) -- 12/05/08 -- Alternet Systems, Inc.'s (OTCBB: ALYI) regional subsidiary Transtech de Guatemala, S.A. recently hosted 54 members of the Association of Urban Buses of the City of Guatemala on a trade mission to China. The trade mission was co-hosted by Tianjin IC Card Public Network System Co. LTD, Transtech's Chinese partner.

This is the second trade mission in which Transtech has hosted the Association of Urban Buses. In October, Alternet hosted the Association's board of directors and other senior management. Following the success of the trade mission, the Association of Urban Buses requested an additional trade mission to showcase Transtech's turnkey mass transportation management capabilities to additional association members.

The trade mission included visiting Chinese bus manufacturing facilities and prepaid fare collection operations in Tianjin. Additionally, trade mission delegates had the opportunity to visit Guangzhou in the Guangdong province to learn more about the operation of 6,000 buses currently running on Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG) fuel.

Strategic Partnership with Banrural, the Largest Bank in Guatemala

Alternet recently announced that their joint venture with Tianjin IC Card Public Network Systems Co. LTD (TCPS), Transtech Sino America, Inc., finalized a partnership with Banrural (www.banrural.com), the largest bank in Guatemala with the largest number of bank branches. In the partnership, Banrural will serve as Transtech's financial partner for E-transaction, E-ticketing and mobile payment solution projects in Guatemala and the surrounding region, with an initial focus on mass transportation e-ticketing solutions. Transtech will benefit from a variety of financial services Banrural provides, including trust managements, cash collection and sales channels through Banrural's extensive network of ATM's, currently provided to the Municipality of the City of Guatemala. Initially, Banrural's ATM network will be used as a recharge point of sale system for prepaid bus fare collection, and will eventually be adopted in the bank agencies and offices. Additionally, the Banrural partnership may provide key financing to Transtech's fleet replacement initiative in Latin America, providing high efficiency and low emission liquid petroleum gas (LPG) buses to municipalities with aging or inefficient bus fleets. The partnership has the potential for additional expansion to include utilities prepayment and municipal services.

Transtech: Alternet's Strategic Partnership with TCPS in Latin America

Through their joint venture Transtech, Alternet Systems is TCPS' strategic partner in Latin America. TCPS chose Alternet Systems for their experience in Latin America and for their proprietary wireless e-transaction capabilities, which are complementary to TCPS' contactless card and financial terminals. TCPS is a large, established company based just outside of Beijing in Tianjin, China, providing urban mass transportation fare collection with proven contactless card and terminal solutions that have been developed and implemented in the most populated country in the world. TCPS is currently the market leader in China, with more than 57% of the market served. Currently, TCPS' systems are used in 76 cities and process prepaid fares for more than 300 million people. TCPS has issued more than 100 million contactless cards, has proprietary technology in the fare collection industry and has set up a post graduate Research and Development facility in partnership with Hebei Industry University.

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About Alternet Systems (www.alternetsystems.com)

Alternet Systems, Inc. (OTCBB: ALYI) provides: telecommunications services; education and health-care application software and systems; and electronic transaction platforms for the mass transportation and utility markets. Alternet Systems, Inc. is a U.S. corporation headquartered in Miami, Florida.

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Source: Marketwire (December 5, 2008 - 2:47 PM EST)

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