Perot Systems Awarded Three Year IT Services Contract Extension With Hutchison Whampoa


LONDON and PLANO, Texas, July 21 /PRNewswire/ --

- A Leading Global Telecom Company Renews Outsourcing Deal

Perot Systems Corporation (NYSE: PER) (http://www.perotsystems.com) has
announced that it has been awarded a three year extension to its current IT
services agreement with the 3 Group, Hutchison Whampoa's 3G mobile telecoms
business. The agreement further strengthens the three year-old relationship
between the two companies, building on Perot Systems' outstanding track
record of meeting its service level agreement objectives. Financial terms of
the contract were not disclosed.

Under the extended agreement, Perot Systems will continue to provide
ongoing maintenance and management of key IT business applications, including
effective knowledge management and solutions in service activation support
for the seven 3G telecommunication operators of Hutchison Whampoa's 3 Group.

Co-ordination of the project will be driven extensively from Perot
Systems' Bucharest, Romania facility as part of the company's global delivery
network of applications, infrastructure and consulting solutions. This
contract demonstrates Perot Systems' continued commitment to the EMEA region
and to providing quality domain expertise and technical talent to the market.

"We are committed to helping Hutchison Whampoa continue its exceptional
record of service delivery in the telecoms market," said Ferenc Szelényi,
EMEA Managing Director at Perot Systems. "We are proud to be one of Hutchison
Whampoa's trusted service providers, as it continues to deliver high-quality
services to its customers in the coming years."

About 3 Group

A division of Hutchison Whampoa, the 3 Group together with Hutchison 
Telecommunications International Limited, is the leading global player in the 
3G arena, holding licenses in 11 markets with total population coverage of 
approximately 175 million.

The 3 Group has built an entirely new mobile broadband network, achieving 
probably the fastest rollout of a radio network in the entire telecom 
industry. Marketed globally under the 3 brand, the group was the first 
operator in the world to provide dual-mode 3G services.

To date, commercial 3G services have been launched in Italy, the UK,
Australia, Austria, Sweden, Denmark, Hong Kong, Israel and Ireland. Hutchison
announced more than 20 million customers in March 2009.

For more information about 3, please visit www.three.com

About Perot Systems

Perot Systems is a worldwide provider of information technology services
and business solutions. Through its flexible and collaborative approach,
Perot Systems integrates expertise from across the company to deliver custom
solutions that enable clients to accelerate growth, streamline operations and
create new levels of customer value. Headquartered in Plano, Texas, Perot
Systems reported 2008 revenue of US$2.8 billion. The company has more than
23,000 associates located in the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Asia
Pacific. Additional information on Perot Systems is available at
http://www.perotsystems.com/.

This press release contains forward-looking statements that are subject
to known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results
to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such statements. For
factors that could affect our business and cause actual results to differ
materially, please refer to our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal
year ended December 31, 2008, as filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission and available at http://www.sec.gov/, as updated in our Quarterly
Reports on Form 10-Q filed after such Form 10-K, for additional information
regarding risk factors. We disclaim any intention or obligation to revise any
forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future
developments, or otherwise.

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    Karen.modlin@ps.net

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    katies@octanepr.com



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