Qualcomm and Teleepoch Enter Into a 3G CDMA Subscriber Unit License Agreement, October 6, 2007

MTN chooses Cambridge Broadband Networks for multi-service wireless network in Rwanda, October 6, 2007

Brazilian government to publish 3G bidding rules soon, October 6, 2007

KTF 3G service suffers from technical problems, October 6, 2007

Argentina’s Personal lunches 3G service in Rosario, October 6, 2007

Russia has it's first 3G network, October 6, 2007

AT&T could drop Alcatel-Lucent as 3G mobile network supplier, October 6, 2007

Enea Extends License Agreement with ZTE for 3G Handsets, October 2, 2007

LG to unveil premium handsets in Brazil, October 2, 2007

KTF 3G subscribers doubled in less than 3 months, October 2, 2007

3G policy in India will be non-uniform, October 2, 2007

- previous news

PacificNet announces 3G strategy

December 6, 2006

PacificNet announced that its Chairman and CEO, Tony Tong, Victor Tong, President, and Super Wang, General Manager of PacificNet's Guangzhou 3G subsidiary, discussed its 3G strategy while attending the 3G Showcase at ITU Telecom World 2006.

Commenting on the status of the long anticipated issuance of 3G licenses in China, Mr. Wang Xudong, China's minister of the information industry, announced at the ITU Telecom World 2006 that China will issue 3G licenses "very soon", and reiterated a commitment to enable operators to offer 3G services during the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. Mr. Zuo Xunsheng, CEO of China Netcom (CN) also declared at the ITU that China Netcom and China Telecom (CHA) could receive the 3G licenses as early as February 2007. In addition, Mr. Chen Wu, VP of China Unicom Macau Branch, announced at the ITU that Macau Unicom plans to launch 3G services in Macau in the second quarter of 2007.

With the long anticipated issuance of 3G licenses in China, the ITU Telecom World 2006 draws a lot of attention from industry leaders, telecom experts, telecom scholars, and government officials involved with 3G services. These include China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII), China Mobile, China Unicom, China Telecom, China Netcom, Huawei, ZTE, DaTang's TD-SCDMA, Qualcom, Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, NMS, and leading hardware vendors, handset providers, content providers, and value-added service provides involved in the 3G industry value-chain. 3G services enable video calls, faster data downloading speeds and mobile Internet access.

Mr. Tony Tong, Chairman of PacificNet, discussed the company's 3G value-added service offerings with the imminent roll-out of 3G services in China by its telco partners. Mr. Tong stated, "As discussed by China's leading government and telecom leaders at the ITU this week, we expect that the Chinese government will officially grant the 3G licenses within a few months and we are sure there will be 3G networks operational in the main cities before the Olympics in 2008, or even earlier. We welcome the imminent arrival of 3G services in China. No matter who gets the 3G licenses, PacificNet will benefit because we have good working relationships with all four of the major telecom operators in China: China Mobile, China Unicom, China Telecom and China Netcom."

PacificNet has been an active player involved in providing value-added telecom services, mobile games, mobile applications, and CRM services in China, the world's largest mobile user base with about 400 million mobile users. With China's anticipated 3G launch, the stakes are high and the opportunities are immense for new 3G value-added services. Telecom users in China can experience our iPACT VAS through our broad geographical presence and local VAS offerings in 27 provinces in China through our VAS operating subsidiaries including Guangzhou 3G, Clickcom, and Wanrong. We look forward to the launch of 3G services in China as we expect it will drive the demand for PacificNet's iPACT, mobile games, CRM, IVR, and VAS services. We are well positioned to capture the business opportunities in China's future 3G services market.

PacificNet recently signed an agreement with China Unicom to become one of the designated value-added SMS providers for Uni- Info, a recently launched mobile information service to service mass market China mobile users. Uni-Info is an SMS-based information subscription and delivery-on-demand service launched by China Unicom and is now available to its GSM and CDMA phone users. Its content offerings include a wide variety of services such as entertainment and financial information, as well as interactive gaming and dating, enabling its subscribers to enjoy the convenience and access to first-hand information via SMS in over 20 cities and provinces in China.

PacificNet has also been a long term CRM service provider for China Telecom in providing Customer Relationship Management (CRM) consulting, telemarketing management and call center training services. China Telecom has selected PacificNet for multiple and on-going projects to enhance the CRM service level and telemarketing management capability of China Telecom's customer service center called the "10000 Information Hotline."

PacificNet's MOABC.com is a leading mobile internet portal in China with 11 million registered users and boasts one of the top-ranked mobile internet sites, featuring mobile social networking services (SNS), mobile games, and entertainment. This free WAP portal provides a variety of mobile internet services such as news, mobile gaming and entertainment services, mobile blogs, mobile email (Mo-Mail), Avatar and virtual pets, mobile online dating, mobile instant messaging, virtual communities, mobile social community and virtual showrooms to China's increasing mobile phone and internet user base.

"With the early success of our mobile WAP portal services in China, we believe the market potential is strong for our WAP.MOABC.COM mobile portal and community, especially in light of the impending launch of 3G services in China," said Victor Tong, President of PacificNet. "With over 11 million registered users, we believe that our fun and entertaining mobile portal and sizable user-base will contribute positively to PacificNet's overall strategy in mobile gaming and e-commerce. With China being the largest and fastest growing telecom market in the world, with over 400 million mobile subscribers, we believe that our strong experience in mobile social networking services (SNS) and mobile games will contribute positively to PacificNet's growing CRM and gaming service network in China and Macau."