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Go
Wireless with NetEase |
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NetEase (www.163.com)
Offers Comprehensive and Exciting WAP website (WAP.163.COM)
in China
Beijing, June 19, 2000 |
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NetEase
(www.163.com), the leading
Chinese Internet portal, recently announced new wireless strategies
for China. The company officially launched its WAP website (wap.163.com)
which has received positive feedback from users since its trial
run three months ago. It made a commitment to work with China
Unicom to create a new WAP web site for its mobile users. NetEase
is also teaming up with major mobile phone manufacturers Motorola,
Siemens and Ericsson to offer WAP-based contents to customers
of Chinese mobile operators, including China Mobile. The alliances
between NetEase
and its new wireless communication partners promise to accelerate
the growth of the WAP market in China and bring significant
benefits to future WAP users. |
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NetEase
launched its WAP website in March 2000. The website, boasting
the richest WAP content in China, features 13 channels offering
information and services such as news, e-mail, stock quotes,
flight schedules, weather, travel, movie listings, and other
valuable information. Its news channel covers 14 categories,
including breaking news, sports, entertainment, life style,
computers, science, finance, culture, games, real estate, women's
issues, health, career and education. The rich WAP-enabled content
is easily accessible by WAP phones from such leading brands
as Motorola, Siemens, Ericsson and Nokia. |
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According to an International Data Corporation
(IDC) report, the number of global Internet users currently
stands at 150 million and it will increase to 500 million
in 2003. Mobile phone users will increase from 400 million
to 1 billion over the same period, with 600 million of them
using WAP mobile phones. These numbers point to an exciting
WAP market.
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About NetEase.com,
Inc. |
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NetEase
is a leading Internet technology company based in China. The
NetEase Web sites
offer Chinese Internet users Chinese language-based online content,
community and electronic commerce services. NetEase's
average daily page views for the seven-day period ending June
30, 2000 exceeded 24 million. As of June 30, 2000, NetEase
Web sites had more than 5.9 million registered members, 465,000
personal home pages, 34,000 simultaneous chat room participants,
and 3.6 million e-mail accounts. |
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Disclosure Regarding Forward-Looking Statements:
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This press release contains statements of
a forward-looking nature. These statements are made under the
"safe harbor" provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation
Reform Act of 1995. You can identify these forward- looking
statements by terminology such as "will," "expects," "anticipates,"
"future," "intends," "plans," "believes," "estimates" and similar
expressions. The accuracy of these statements may be impacted
by a number of business risks and uncertainties that could cause
actual results to differ materially from those projected or
anticipated, including risks related to: the risk that the number
of Chinese users of the Internet will not grow; the risk that
the NetEase Web
sites will not be attractive to Chinese Internet users as NetEase
anticipates; the risk that NetEase's
planned advertising campaign will not be successful; and other
risks outlined in NetEase's
filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including
its registration statement on Form F-1, as amended. NetEase
does not undertake any obligation to update this forward-looking
information, except as required under applicable law. |
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For Further Information, please contact: |
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Zhou Ping, NetEase.com,
Inc. Tel: (8610) 65618811-217
E-mail: pingzhou@staff.163.com |
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Note: |
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NetEase
Web Properties include www.yeah.net,
www.126.com and the number
one site, www.163.com. |
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