Linktone Ltd. provides entertainment-oriented telecom value-added services (VAS) and content to mobile phone users in the People’s Republic of China and Indonesia. It operates in four segments: China VAS and Mobile Game, Indonesia Digital Media, Media content, and Investment. The company offers 2G short messaging service (SMS)-based services, including ringtones, icons, screen savers, interactive SMS messaging in television programs, adventure, action, trivia and fortune-telling games, horoscopes, jokes, fan clubs, and event-driven or entertainment news updates. It also provides 2.5G services, including multimedia messaging services, such as animated cartoons and screensavers, comic strips, magazine-style mobile articles, and event-driven news updates; and wireless application protocol (WAP) services comprising ringtones, screensavers, games and dating services, and Java games. In addition, it offers 3G services, including e-paper/e-reading; music track downloads; streaming services, such as video-on-demand (VOD) on tablet devices and smart TVs; and radio streaming on mobile applications. Further, the company provides audio-related services comprising caller ring-back tones; interactive voice response services, which allow users to listen to songs, jokes, stories, and coverage of events; and services that enable users to send audio content and personal messages to the mobile phones. Additionally, it engages in the distribution and sale of home entertainment products, such as VCDs/DVDs/Blu-ray discs in Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Hong Kong; theatrical distribution of movies, karaoke video licensing, karaoke system rental, and karaoke-on-demand channel on pay-TV platforms; development of games for mobile phone users; and management of Okezone.com, an online news and entertainment portal. The company was founded in 1999 and is based in Singapore. As of July 12, 2012, Linktone Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Global Mediacom International Ltd.

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