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Partnership Means Mobile Media's Exciting 3G Content Will Now Reach Over 1 Million
Mobile Customers in Europe and Asia
HONG KONG, Jan. 18 - The Mobile Media Company (http://www.mobilemedia.com/), one of the leading independent providers of global wireless games, interactive
entertainment services, and marketing applications, today announced an agreement
with SmarTone (http://www.smartone.com.hk/) to provide innovative 3G mobile entertainment applications to millions of wireless
subscribers in Hong Kong.
SmarTone, the premier mobile network in Hong Kong, launched its 3G network in
December 2004. Through its agreement with The Mobile Media Company, SmarTone will
provide cutting-edge multiplayer 3G games and downloadable applications from Mobile
Media's extensive portfolio of entertainment services.
Mobile Media has the largest global collection of 3G games and applications available
to local, regional, and international mobile operators and service providers.
With operations in Asia, North America, and Europe, Mobile Media enjoys a reputation
for innovation and market leadership in mobile entertainment.
"Our 3G mobile download service is growing by more than 75% every month," says
Karsten Hauge, CEO of The Mobile Media Company AS. "We offer specialized 3G-produced
video clips, games, text messaging, and applications to wireless subscribers around
the world. This partnership with SmarTone continues our expansion as a global
leader in 3G-enabled content."
David J. Wong, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Mobile Media Asia
Pacific, agrees. "Our range of multiplayer 3G games not only provides a unique
and fun gaming experience for mobile subscribers, but enables players to interact
with the larger gaming community. We look forward to offering SmarTone subscribers
games they can play in real-time, with users from across our global network of
customers."
About Mobile Media
The Mobile Media Company AS is a global provider of wireless provisioning and
content solutions, interactive entertainment services and mobile marketing applications.
Mobile Media works with leading industry players and a wide-range of customers
including mobile carriers, broadcasters, media companies, and major consumer brands.
The Company was founded in 1993 to pioneer mobile messaging services and technologies
and since then, has become a fast developing, multi-media organization with over
200 employees.
The Mobile Media Company AS serves customers in over 30 countries, with mobile
connectivity to more than 500 million subscribers in both the mature and developing
markets of Asia, Europe and North America. The Company is headquartered in Oslo,
Norway, with offices and technology development centers in the UK, Romania, China,
and the USA.
Mobile content providers should contact Mobile Media at
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. To partner with Mobile Media, please contact us at
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. For all other inquiries, please contact
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or visit us online at http://www.MobileMedia.com.
About SmarTone
SmarTone is Hong Kong's leading mobile operator in multimedia services, aiming
to bring its customers closer to the people, information, and entertainment that
is important to them while generating greater shareholder value. SmarTone is committed
to delivering the best value proposition in the market through continual improvements
in the three pillars of its business - products and services, network performance,
and customer service. Publicly listed in Hong Kong since 1996, SmarTone is a GSM
operator and one of the four 3G licensees in Hong Kong.
SmarTone is recognized as a leader in mobile games, providing the most exciting
and entertaining mobile Java games for its customers. SmarTone iN provides the
best gaming experience with its exclusive CJSP Java games from major international
and local brands. They are best known for their stunning graphics, superior handling,
exciting sound effects, and action-synchronized vibrations. SmarTone iN also provides
a large variety of MIDP Java and Morphon games for different brands of mobile
phones.
For more information, please visit http://www.smartone.com.hk.
Source: The Mobile Media Company AS
CONTACT: Mobile Media Press Contacts: US: Sarah Galea, +1-610-642-8253
or E-mail:
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, or Norway: Steinar Svalesen, +47-9572-8490 or
E-mail:
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, or Hong Kong: Grace Wong,
+852 2185-6408 or E-mail:
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; or SmarTone
Communications Press Contacts: Hong Kong: Alice Li, +852 3128 2255 or E-mail:
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Web site: http://www.mobilemedia.com/
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