CHINA - Press ReleaseSource: chinadotcom corporation
chinadotcom Mobile SMS Unit Increases Direct Connectivity with Local Mobile Network Operators in China
Monday June 16, 7:37 am ET
Four provinces added: Hebei, Yunnan, Gansu and Xinjiang, totaling 26 provinces with direct connectivity
HONG KONG, June 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- chinadotcom corporation (Nasdaq: CHINA; website: www.corp.china.com), the leading integrated enterprise solutions company in Asia, today announced that its mobile short message service (SMS) unit, Newpalm (China) Information Technology Co., Ltd. ("Newpalm"), a leading SMS and mobile software and application developer in China, has concluded additional direct connectivity in four more provinces with local mobile network operators.
Further to the service agreements signed with mobile network operators in 22 provinces in China, Newpalm recently has concluded additional service agreements with China Mobile Communications Corporation in the provinces of Hebei, Yunnan, Gansu, and Xinjiang, making a total of 26 provinces with direct connectivity. Direct connectivity with provincial network mobile operators facilitates Newpalm's marketing and promotion activities at the provincial level, resulting in a better quality of service, a higher sign-up rate for subscribers and new services, and a higher level of completion of SMS messages sent.
"Newpalm has made progress in the early stages this quarter despite the SARS impact," said Rudy Chan, Chief Executive Officer of hongkong.com Corporation and leader of chinadotcom's Mobile and Portal initiative. "After the completion of the acquisition in April this year, we will consolidate the full second quarter of Newpalm into the chinadotcom group's financial results for Q2 2003. In addition, further synergies between Newpalm and our portal network will continue to take place which will allow us to provide value-added SMS products and services to both our Internet and SMS users."
John Xiao, Chief Executive Officer of Newpalm (China) Information Technology Co., Ltd., said, "The direct connectivity with provincial mobile network operators facilitates flexible local marketing promotions for new services. More importantly, it allows us to deliver a higher quality of service to mobile subscribers."
In the last month, Newpalm has successfully launched a customized weather news service in which users can select the weather news presented by any selected China Central Television weather news presenter and have it delivered to the users at a specific time during the day. The newly launched service is a nationwide service and is charged at 20 cents RMB (US2.4 cents) per message on a subscription or demand basis.
In April, Newpalm and china.com jointly launched the free SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) news service to Internet and mobile users in China. Over 200,000 mobile subscribers are using the free services and more than one million messages were sent since the launch of the SARS SMS content service. Subscribers can retrieve through their mobile phones the latest SARS developments and statistics, as well as SARS preventative educational information.
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