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MAC 07: Aircel, BPL Mobile, BSNL Get Yahoo oneSearch

14 Nov, 2007, 11:56 am IST | by tech2 News Staff |

Yahoo! has announced nine new partnerships with mobile operators across the Asia Pacific region for Yahoo! oneSearch, its mobile search technology. One third of these partnerships are with Indian mobile operators.

After tying up with Idea Cellular in June, Yahoo! has tied up with Aircel, BPL Mobile and BSNL.

The other partnerships include DiGi Telecommunications Sdn Bhd (DiGi; Malaysia), PT EXCELCOMINDO PRATAMA Tbk. (Excelcom; Indonesia), PT Hutchison CP Telecom (Hutch 3; Indonesia), PT Indosat, Tbk (Indosat; Indonesia), PCCW Mobile HK Limited (Hong Kong) and Starhub Ltd (Singapore).

Yahoo! had previously ties up with seven Asian mobile operators - Idea Cellular being one of them. The other six were Globe Telecom Inc. (Philippines), LG Telecom (Korea), Maxis Communications Berhad (Malaysia), PT Telekomunikasi Selular (Telkomsel; Indonesia), SmarTone-Vodafone (Hong Kong) and Taiwan Mobile Co (Taiwan).

"Fostering and developing high quality partnerships is a cornerstone of our mobile strategy and, together with our partners, we are delivering a premier mobile Internet experience to our respective consumers," said David Ko, vice president and general manager, Connected Life Asia, Yahoo!. "Today's partnerships with leading operators across Asia add to Yahoo!'s incredible momentum in mobile and underscore our leadership in this important and growing market."

With today's announcement, Yahoo! has distribution partnerships with twenty mobile operators around the world and is currently available in nineteen countries. Yahoo! oneSearch is a search service designed for mobile users. oneSearch integrates content from a variety of sources, providing consumers with access to news, financial information, weather conditions, Flickr photos, Yahoo! Answers, Web images, movies, flight status, Wikipedia, currency conversion as well as Web and Mobile Web sites.

For more information, visit http://m.yahoo.com/ on the mobile Internet or http://mobile.yahoo.com/ on the Web.

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