EXHIBIT 10.48
Agreement on Short Message Service
Cooperation
Party A: Guangdong Mobile
Communications Corporation
Party B: Beijing SINA Internet Information Services Co.,
Ltd.
Guandong Mobile Communications
Corporation (hereinafter referred to as “Party A”) is a
network operator approved by the competent authority in charge of
information industry under the State Council, mainly engaged in
providing mobile network telephone service (including voice
message, data and multimedia) to the general public within
Guangdong Province.
Beijing SINA Internet Information
Services Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “Party
B”) uses wireless interconnections as its major platform to
provide a range of mobile message services to customers who can
access the Internet via mobile terminal or PCs.
To fully bring into play each
party’s advantage in its respective service area and to
provide Monternet short-message service to “GoTone” and
“M-Zone” and “Shenzhouxing” subscribers in
Guangdong and other subscribers permitted by Party A, the parties
hereby conclude the following agreement with respect to
short-message service cooperation based on the principles of equal
benefit, advantage sharing and mutual development.
Article 1 Contents of
Cooperation Project
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As
a provider of the short-messaging platform, Party A shall provide
networking channels to Party B with compensation.
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Party B shall use Party A’s
short-messaging system to provide the following information and
application services to Party A’s “GoTone” and
“M-Zone” and “Shenzhouxing” subscribers,
and other subscribers permitted by Party A. Party B shall,
according to subscribers’ subscription, provide timely
information services with quality to subscribers.
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Party A shall use its billing and
business supporting system to provide Party B with billing and fee
collection service. Service fees collected shall be shared by both
parties.
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Article 2 Party A’s
Rights and Obligations
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Party A shall have the right to
verify operation license for internet information services or
operation license for telecom value-added services, credit
certificate, business license, source of information, bank account
and other materials relating to the normal operation of business
provided by Party B.
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Party A shall provide short-message
service to the short-message gateway provided by Party B, and shall
be responsible for providing Party B with short-message gateway and
short-message traffic volume control. Party A shall have the right
to timely adjust short-message traffic volume according to its
short-message center’s capacity.
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Any
expansion of Party B’s business or its application to alter
its business must be subject to Party A’s review within
10 days upon submission of related materials by Party
B.
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Party A shall have the ownership of
its mobile phone users and the right to learn the truth about Party
B’s business and have the right to request Party B to provide
Party A with customer information, business profile, log and
statistics relating to Party B’s Monternet
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services.
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Party A shall have the right to
stipulate management regulations of the Monternet services,
performance examining items, and standards and documentation of
customer services that Party B shall comply with and implement
according to Party A’s requests. Party A shall carry out
examines on Party B’s performance according to the
above-mentioned management regulations. Party A shall reward or
penalize Party B accordingly in accordance with such evaluation
results, details included in Measures for Evaluation, Rewards
and Penalty of Guangdong Monternet SMS SPs . Party B shall
develop its Monternet business in accordance with the customer
service requirements of Party A and any complaint against Party B
shall be approached with reference to Guangdong Administrative
Regulations on Monternet Customer Services.
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Party A shall provide Party B with a
system to identify and verify user registration and log-on
information, which system shall be connected with Party B’s
content service system, and the subscriber data recorded by such
system shall be the controlling information on the
subscribers’ using of Party B’s services.
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Party A shall provide Party B with a
customer service number for the customer to make complaint and
enquire calls. And Party A’s customer service center shall be
the party to make final confirmation and distribution of Monternet
customer service problems, Party B’s customer service
personnel or customer service system shall assist Party A to
analyze and deal with customers’ business-related complaints
and enquiries. Party A shall have the right to forward to Party B
customer enquiries and complaints caused by non-network
communication problems arising from such business. Party A shall be
liable for such customer enquires and complaints caused by network
communication problems.
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Party A shall collect the service
fee from subscribers for Party B based on Party A’s billing
information.
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Party A shall provide Party B with
the traffic volume information of the short-messages sent via the
short-message gateway used by Party B. Such traffic volume
information shall be the basis for the settlement of short-message
service fee.
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Party A shall have the right to
verify the profit forecast of the parties provided by Party B to
Party A prior to the commence of the service.
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Party A and Party B may jointly
engage in marketing and customer advertisement. Party A shall have
the right to request Party B to identify the brand of
“MONTERNET” upon Party A’s examination and
approval. In the event that Party B’s promotion and
advertisement involves Party A’s corporate name and other
brand specifications, it shall be subject to Party A’s prior
examination and approval.
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Article 3 Party B’s
Rights and Obligations
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Party B shall provide Party A with
true and reliable operation license for internet information
services or operation license for telecom value-added services,
credit certificate, business license, source of information and
bank account and other materials relating to the normal operation
of business, and guarantee that the billing for such information
services complies with relevant regulations of the state pricing
authority.
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Party B shall comply with relevant
state policies, laws, decrees in regard to telecommunication and
internet information. Party B shall ensure the information
content
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provided by it not to violate
relevant state laws, regulations and policies, and ensure not to
use Party A’s system deliver nine categories of illegal
information listed in Information Source Networking Information
Safety and Security Liability Statement (Appendix 4). Party B
shall be responsible for filtering the information content provided
to subscribers (including the information content edited by
subscribers via Party B’s websites), and eliminating each
sort of unhealthy or illegal information.
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In
the event that Party A receives customers complaints with respect
to transmitting illegal information, Party B shall furnish Party
A’s customer service department its preliminary response
within 2 hours and find out the reasons within one working day, and
Party B shall be responsible for immediately ceasing transmitting
illegal information.
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Party B shall verify
subscribers’ true identity and display calling number along
with the short-message, and no anonymous short-message or
short-message with only nick name displayed shall be delivered to
other subscribers’ mobile telephone (except chatting business
of virtual community).
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Party B shall strictly control any
function of group short-message service provided by it and ensure a
piece of short-message can be delivered to at most 1-2 calling
numbers.
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During the term of this Agreement,
Party B shall not, through either channel and on either level of
business, communicate to third parties Party A’s mobile data
application business. Party B shall establish a separate database
for Party A’s mobile subscribers (135-139), which is
separated from the subscribers of the third parties. Party B shall
not, by means of any sort of business (including short-message
chatting, edited short-message and delivering short-message via
internet, etc.) and at its own discretion, realize disguised
connection between Monternet business and the third
party.
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Within the term of this Agreement,
Party B shall not deliver advertisement or other irrelevant
information to subscribers. Any expansion or alternation of Party
B’s business shall be subject to Party A’s review and
approval, and be verified by Party A’s billing examination.
Party B shall duly furnish Party A the business materials that need
to be accepted by Party B.
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Within the term of this Agreement,
Party B shall furnish Party A, according to Party A’s
requirement, a report with the data including status of subscriber
development, subscriber classification, subscriber using customs,
and business forecast, etc., and duly transfer Party A the
subscribers materials necessary for managing such business, and
ensure that Party A’s subscriber database is upgraded. Party
A shall keep such information confidential in according with
Article 6 “Confidential Clause”. Party B shall be
responsible for providing system to keep a log and shall keep
historical records for at least one month.
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Party B shall ensure that
subscribers are well aware of the price, content and the means by
which such services are provided prior to the subscribers accept
each service provided.
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On
the basis of the principle of voluntaries, Party B shall obtain
subscriber’s consent prior to Party B providing its services,
and shall, according to subscribers’ customization
requirements, provide subscribers with duly information service
with correct quality and quantity.
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Party B shall comply with and
implement Party A’s management regulations, standards and
documentation of customer service with respect to Monternet
business, and accept Party A’s inspection and supervision. If
Party B withdraws from providing Monternet service for whatever
reason (including compulsory withdraws in Party A’s
examination), Party B shall be responsible for providing a
one-month grace period, within which Party B shall
continue
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providing its service and make an
announcement of ceasing service on its website (WWW/WAP) or through
other channels.
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Party B shall be responsible for
handling customer enquiries and complaints that are not caused by
internet gateway, and establish effective channels for complaints
to which Party A’s customer services center can forward the
complaints. Party B shall assume the ultimate liability to customer
for those customer complaints for which neither Party A nor Party B
can reasonably explain.
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Party B shall be responsible for
include the characters of collecting service fee to each message
submitted according to format required by Party A.
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Party B shall be solely liable for
tax payment on its profit.
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Party A shall issue a formal invoice
to Party A for such information service fee collected from Party
A.
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Party B shall actively engage itself
in marketing and customer promotion. The content of Party B’s
promotion and advertisement shall include the
“MONTERNET” brand as required by Party A.
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Within 6 months after the entry
into force of this Agreement, Party B shall not, in Guangdong
Province, conduct the same or similar short-message business listed
in the Appendix of this Agreement with the third party.
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Article 4 Maintenance
Responsibilities
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Responsibilities for maintenance of
the parties shall be divided at the point where the parties’
equipments connect; each Party shall perform its respective
obligations to ensure the normal operation of its
business.
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Detailed responsibilities of the
parties are listed in Appendix 1 hereto.
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Article 5 Billing and
Settlement
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Party A shall be entitled to the
transmission fee arising from subscribers’ or Party B’s
using of short-message function. And Party A shall jointly share
the service fees paid by subscribers with Party B based on a
certain ratio.
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If
subscribers refuse to pay the service fees due to the quality of
Party B’s service, such unpaid sum shall be deducted from
Party B’s service fees.
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In
case Party B fails to include the characters of collecting service
fee to each message submitted according to format required, Party A
shall not include such sum in the services fees
collected
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