Yahoo! deals nine
E-commerce
13 November 2007
Internet company Yahoo! has agreed deals to offer nine Asian network operators mobile phone web services.
The company is also to provide Yahoo Go, a mobile service in Taiwan, and has already signed six other partnerships this year.
Marco Boerries, mobile executive, told Reuters: “Those 16 deals will give us roughly 40 percent coverage of all subscribers in those countries."
He also revealed that the company was about to strike more agreements in the region: "We have a clear goal to lead the market. The goal is to exceed 50 per cent."
Yahoo uses a system called OneSearch and made its biggest contract in October with Telefonica SA, a company which has 100 million phone subscribers.
Google, the company’s biggest competitor has released its mobile software, Android. The first, so-called G phones, are expected to be released in 2008 by Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile.
Mobile handsets are the key to accessing an increasing range of web services. The release on November 9th of Apple’s long awaited iPhone proved they have a star status of their own.
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