Ozura Mobile and info2cell.com announce mobile gaming partnership in the middle east and north africa
NEWS RELEASE SEPTEMBER 11, 2006
Singapore, September 11: Ozura Mobile, a leading international publisher and developer of mobile entertainment, today announced that it has signed a distribution agreement with Info2cell.com, the leading mobile application service provider in the Middle East and North Africa.
Under the terms of the agreement, Info2cell.com will publish and distribute Ozura's premium titles to more than 75 million mobile subscribers throughout the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), including Etisalat-United Arab Emirates' telecommunications service provider since 1976.
"We are very pleased to have Info2cell.com to join our extensive distribution network of wireless carriers as Info2cell is a very well established wireless application service provider in MENA," said H.E. Mah, Ozura's VP of Marketing.
"MENA is a key target market for us as the mobile market in the MENA is proliferating with a significant rise in their number of subscribers which justifies our move into a lucrative region," added Mah.
Due to high customer demand, the number of mobile phone subscriptions in the Middle East region has grown by 70 percent last year and UAE has even surpassed the mobile penetration rate of 121.81 percent this year.
These numbers are indicative of the willingness of these nations to adopt mobile technology and with every UAE resident holding more than one sim card on average, Ozura is very optimistic that its mobile gaming industry will experience parallel growth.
About Ozura Mobile
Ozura Mobile is a leading international developer and publisher for mobile games and game developer engine to carriers, aggregators, mobile phone manufacturers and service providers. The company creates games for the mobile phones based on J2ME, BREW or Symbian platform. Ozura's games are available all over the world through its distribution network of thousands of partners spanning across 130 countries. It is expected that the growth of mobile phones supporting these platforms will exceed one billion units worldwide in 2008. For more information, visit www.ozura.com
About Info2cell.com
Founded in 1998, Info2cell.com was the first provider of value added services in the Middle East region. With exponential growth expanding to North Africa, the company is now the leading Wireless Application Service Provider in the MENA region with access to over 28 GSM operators and more than 85 million mobile subscribers. For more information, visit www.info2cell.com