MONTHLY REPORT

Li Pin

December

NEWS

SINA Signs Strategic Alliance with NIKE for Online Marketing Initiative

BEIJING & SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 6, 2002--SINA (Nasdaq:SINA - News), a leading Chinese media and Internet services company, announced today that it has entered into a strategic alliance for online marketing with NIKE, the world's leading designer and marketer of athletic products. Under the alliance, NIKE will become the co-brand partner of SINA's sports channel, which is ranked number one in China. SINA's sport channel will be renamed the NIKE-SINA Sports Channel. In addition to an advertising commitment, NIKE will also work with SINA, both online and offline, to co-develop and market the sports channel to sports fans in China.

http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/021206/60164_1.html

2. Beijing Court Rules in Favor of Sina in Lawsuit Against Sohu

BEIJING -- A Beijing court ruled Monday that the Chinese-language Internet portal Sohu.com Inc. had plagiarized content from the Web site of its rival Sina.com , the two companies said.

http://biz.yahoo.com/djus/021202/2207000829_2.html

3. Korea SK Telecom Offers Cell Phone Financial Settlement Service

SEOUL -(Dow Jones)- SK Telecom Co. , South Koorea's largest mobile phone operator, will launch Friday a service that allows financial settlement via mobile phones.

http://biz.yahoo.com/djus/021128/0459000247_1.html

SK Telecom In Pact With Credit Companies For Mobile Financial Services

SEOUL -(Dow Jones)- South Korea's SK Telecom Co. said Tuesday it has signed an alliance with Korea Exchange Bank Credit Service Co. , Woori Credit Card and SK Corp. to offer financial settlement services via mobile phones.

http://biz.yahoo.com/djus/021210/0105000015_1.html

By the end of september 2002, there are 135 million CDMA users in the world, and among them, 18% are CDMA 2000 users, and 58 million in North America, and 26 million in South America,

http://tech.sina.com.cn/it/t/2002-12-10/0913154952.shtml

Chinese version

Now, In China, the most popular MMS mobile phone is Nokia 7650 and Panasonic GD88, and Nokia 7650 has half MMS mobile phone market share. In the first 9 months this year, total be sold 9.5 million MMS mobile phone in the world, and 97% were sold in Asia.

http://tech.sina.com.cn/it/t/2002-12-10/1131155065.shtml

Chinese version

Something about GSM subscribers

By the end of Oct 2002,

Total wireless subscribers in the world are 1.1 billion. And GSM subscribers are 763.7 million and CDMA subscribers are 136.6 million.

Among GSM 763.7 million subscribers, GSM 900 is 407.2 million, GSM 1800 is 89.1 million, GSM 1900 is 19 million and GSM 900/1800 is 248.4 million.

And if by region, Asia Pacific is 292.6 millon, Europe is 375.8 million, North America is 16.8 million and South America is 4.7 million.

http://www.gsmworld.com/news/statistics/substats.shtml

An information from Ministry of information industry: by November 2002, the total Chinese telephone subscribers is 412.99 million, and mobile phone subscriber is 200.31 million and landline subscriber is 212.68 million.

http://tech.sina.com.cn/it/t/2002-12-16/1526156144.shtml

Chinese version

9. Strand Consults said: in Europe, now the Ringtone download service and Logo download service will get 39 % of all mobile VAS. And in 2002, Ringtone and download service and logo download service had 625 million US dollars income, and the total Mobile VAS will get 1.5 billion US dollars income. But in the future the Ringtone and Logo download service market share will reduce, and when 2005, its market share will just have 2.7%.

http://tech.sina.com.cn/it/t/2002-12-16/1644156167.shtml

Chinese version

Dec 16,2002. China Mobile, 13 websites and China music copyright community sign an agreement. It is about download the ringtone from the website. Every user download a ringtone from the website successful, the website should pay 20% copyright fee.

http://tech.sina.com.cn/i/c/2002-12-17/0721156184.shtml

Chinese version

China makes it easier to buy a .cn Web site name

HONG KONG, Dec 18 (Reuters) - Relaxed rules for registering Web site names in China are likely to spark a surge in applications, including from foreign companies previously barred from using the .cn designation, China Internet watchers said.

http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/021217/tech_china_internet_2.html

China Internet Users Increase To 58 Million By End-October

BEIJING -(Dow Jones)- The number of Internet users in China had expanded to 58 million by the end of October, China's state media report, citing estimates by the China Internet Network Information Center, or CNNIC.

http://biz.yahoo.com/djus/021218/2303001176_1.html

Korea Thrunet Announces the Launch of Its 'On-TV' Service

Aims to be Leader in Home Entertainment Service Market - Issues Guidance for Fiscal 2002 & 2003

SEOUL and NEW YORK, Dec. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Korea Thrunet Co., Ltd. (Nasdaq: KOREA - News; the "Company" or "Thrunet"), a major provider of broadband Internet-access services in Korea, today announced that the Company will launch a new service, "On-TV", that will allow the Company's broadband Internet subscribers to view a variety of high-density multimedia content from the Internet on their TV screens rather than PC monitors. "On-TV," which will commence in February 2003, is the first step in Thrunet's plan to become a leader in the Korean home entertainment service market, and will further diversify the Company's revenue streams and solidify its position as a major broadband Internet access player.

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/021218/lnw015_1.html

14. There is a research about Chinese Internet users.

Over 80% users like accepting pay for the Internet services.

46.63 want to pay less than 10 RMB for the service per month.

31.90% want to pay 10-30 RMb for the service per month.

1.23% can pay over 50 RMB per month.

39.51% like paying for the E-mail box.

12.35% like paying for download ringtone and Logo.

12.96% like paying for download software.

11.32% like paying for the education.

37.04% wish to pay by mobile phone.

33.33% wish to pay by bankcard.

19.75 hope they can pay by landline phone.

http://tech.sina.com.cn/i/c/2002-12-19/1104156741.shtml

Chinese Version

12.18.2002, China mobile and China Ping’an insurance signed a agreement.

So in the future, the Chinese people they can buy Ping’an insurance by their mobile phone.

http://tech.sina.com.cn/it/t/2002-12-19/0949156704.shtml

Chinese version

VAS Studies

About Chinese market VAS.

I searched the top three portal website. I just find the job searching. Now I put here:

For SOHU:

If you are a company wants to have a ads to find new staff. They can:

RMB 600: 1 month, basic service.

RMB 2400: 1 month, basic service+list your company in the hot jobs in the first page of job hunting.

RMB 3000: 1 week, basic service+list your company in the hot jobs in the first page of job hunting+give the red URL of company in the first page of job hunting.

RMB 3500: 1 day, just add URL link in the home page of SOHU.

RMB 30000: 1 month, basic service, company logo will show in the first page of job hunting.

RMB 3600: 6 months, basic service.

RMB 7200: 12 months, basic service.

For netease:

If you are a company, and you look for new employees, you should become a member first and register.

RMB 700: 1 week.

RMB 1000: 1 month.

RMB 1500: 3 months.

RMB 2200: 6 months.

RMB 3000: 12 months.

Another is about the ALUMNUS.

Actually, this basic service is free. You can create your class there, and ask your classmates join your class, you can upload pictures, leave messages to BBS, but if you want more services. You should pay.

For SOHU:

If you want to your Class become a VIP, you class should pay 300 RMB for one year.

For Netease.

If you want become a VIP, you just pay 6 RMB per month.

IQ TEST

For this month, I used many time on our IQ test. I mainly did:

Translate. Over 30 pages Personalized report.
Check. All the translations that Suzanne sends me and all the pages about IQ test on her training site.
Make IQ test simplified Chinese version.
Discuss all the problems in IQ test with Suzanne and gave her some suggestions about the translations.

Others

I also find a tool in Netease named Netease bubble. It is tool very similar as yahoo messenger. You can chat, you can send SMS, you go to your Email box directly, and you can join dating or gaming pages directly. I download one, and tried it, it is nice. Also it is similar as OICQ.
Contact with my friend in China, and he gave me his account NO. Already and I send it to Rose.