Opera Developing Chinese Mobile Internet Browser

The Chinese mobile content provider, KongZhong has signed agreement with Opera Software to develop a Chinese language version of Opera's mobile internet browser for mobile phones.  Under the agreement, the two companies will develop a "KongZhong Opera" browser solution for Chinese mobile phone users with Kong.net as the default home page. The "KongZhong Opera" browser is expected to be offered for downloading at no charge and can enable mobile phone users to browse both traditional Internet sites and WAP sites through their mobile phones.

KongZhong and Opera expect to generate and share advertising revenues, search- related revenues and other revenues from "KongZhong Opera".

Mr. Nick Yang, KongZhong's President, said, "As the developer of the very popular Opera Browser, Opera has a large following among users of PCs, mobile phones, pocket PCs, game consoles and interactive televisions. Meanwhile, Kong.net, operated by KongZhong, is one of the leading wireless Internet portals in China. This cooperation between KongZhong and Opera allows us to bundle and present to mobile phone users in China the best products of the two companies. We expect that the launch and promotion of the "KongZhong Opera" browser will bring increased traffic to Kong.net, strengthen our brand awareness and enhance our leadership position in wireless Internet industry.""

Posted to the site on 20th July 2007