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Monternet(TM) MMS Cooperation Agreement - China Mobile Communications Corp. and Shanghai Weiland Computer Co. Ltd.

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                    MONTERNET(TM) MMS COOPERATION AGREEMENT

                                    BETWEEN

                    CHINA MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION

                                      AND

                       SHANGHAI WEILAN COMPUTER CO., LTD.

Party A: China Mobile Communication Corporation ("CHINA MOBILE")

Party B: Shanghai Weilan Computer Co. Ltd. ("LINKTONE")

The parties hereto agree to establish cooperation under the principle of
equality and mutual benefit through friendly negotiation. This Agreement hereby
standardizes the rights and obligations of the parties hereto during their
cooperation. This Agreement shall have the same binding power upon Party A and
Party B.

I.       COOPERATION PRINCIPLE

The parties hereto shall cooperate in good faith in the area of mobile data and
MMS (defined below) business in the principle of benefit sharing and
reciprocality. The parties hereto shall adhere to their agreements set forth
below and provide active cooperation in the other party's work.

II.      COOPERATION PROJECT

"MMS" refers to the multimedia messaging services provided by China Mobile. Its
most significant feature is its support of multimedia functions and its capacity
to deliver full-functional content and information, which includes the
information in multimedia format such as word, picture, voice and data.

Party A, as the network operator, shall provide the platform for MMS and
communications services, and also provide to Party B the standards for
Monternet(TM) MMS service and technical standards for interfacing; Party B, as
the service provider, shall develop and provide application content services in
accordance with the standards provided by Party A. Party B may connect to Party
A's MMS platform to provide MMS service, subject to Party A's testing and
approval.

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III.     OBLIGATIONS OF THE PARTIES

(I)      Party A's Obligations

1.       Party A shall use all kinds of promotional media (such as TV
         commercials, posters) to promote and market Monternet(TM)'s MMS service
         to attract subscribers.

2.       Party A shall provide to Party B technical standards and support for
         MMS service connection, to ensure Party B's smooth connection with
         Party A's MMS network platform.

3.       Party A shall provide to Party B necessary training as required by
         Party B.

4.       Using the connection point of Party A's MMS system firewall with Party
         B as the boundary, Party A shall be responsible for the maintenance of
         all equipment on its own side, to ensure smooth operation of such
         equipment.

5.       Party A shall maintain its MMS network platform and address the
         technical breakdown caused by Party A in order to ensure smooth
         operation of application services.

6.       Party A shall provide free-of-charge network connection point service
         to Party B and assist Party B to get its application service connected
         with MMS network platform.

7.       Party A shall be responsible for formulating all of the targets for
         operation of MMS service, and shall inform Party B of such targets
         completely and indiscriminately. It shall also give Party B reasonable
         time to achieve such targets.

8.       For the services provided by Party B at the MMS network platform, Party
         A shall collect fees from its customers for their use of Party B's
         services pursuant to the pricing information provided by Party B and
         confirmed by Party A, and settle the fee with Party B pursuant to
         relevant provisions under Section 6 of this Agreement.

9.       Party A shall provide consulting and complaint service to customers,
         and handle customer inquiry and complaints concerning network,
         operation platform and fee collection caused by Party A. For the
         inquiry and complaint caused by Party B, Party A shall communicate
         relevant information to Party B and procure Party B to address it
         immediately.

(II)     Party B's Obligations

1.       Party B shall be subject to the cooperation requirements and
         obligations specified in Monternet(TM) SP Cooperation Administrative
         Measures, MMS Business Handbook, which forms an attachment to this
         Agreement.

2.       Party B shall use all kinds of promotional media (including WEB site,
         WAP site, plane media and TV) to promote MMS service. Party B shall
         secure prior consent from Party A before Party B uses Party A's name
         and business mark in promotion of Monternet(TM) MMS service; without
         prior written consent of Party A, Party B shall not use the name of

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         "China Mobile" or "Monternet(TM)" to conduct promotional activity
         unrelated to Monternet(TM) in any media.

3.       Party B shall be responsible to provide application server, application
         software, information source, special line for application data and
         other necessary equipment to the satisfactory of Party A on the basis
         of the parties' cooperation project.

4.       Party B shall provide active collaboration in Party A's testing of
         connection point, and undertake to provide MMS service in accordance
         with MMS network platform business standards and connection point
         technical standards provided by Party A.

5.       Using the connection point of Party A's MMS system firewall with Party
         B as the boundary, Party B shall be responsible for the maintenance of
         all equipment on its own side, and to ensure smooth operation of such
         equipment.

6.       Party B shall immediately address the breakdown of application service
         caused by itself, and take practical measures to prevent re-occurrence
         of such breakdown. Party B shall be liable for any economic losses
         incurred by Party A or the customer of Party A's MMS service caused by
         Party B.

7.       Party B shall negotiate and handle commercial arrangement with direct
         providers of the application contents (such as the owner of image or
         music copyright). Party B shall ensure the compliance of its
         information and service with applicable state policies and regulations,
         cause no harm to consumers' interest or infringe any intellectual
         property rights or relevant interest of any third party. Party B shall
         be solely liable for the litigation thus incurred.

8.       Party B shall not unilaterally provide other services not confirmed by
         Party A to Party A's customers without Party A's prior written consent.

9.       Party B shall not provide to any other telecommunications service
         operator the same content with those provided to Party A without regard
         to the transmission means of the application service; otherwise, Party
         A may terminate the application services provided by Party B on Party
         A's MMS & network platform and cease making fee payments to Party B.

10.      Party B shall provide Party A with all clear and indiscriminate
         information required for fee calculation for the services provided by
         Party B, and shall assume all economic and legal liabilities related
         thereto.

11.      Party B shall provide Party A with all statistical information relating
         to the consumption of Party B's MMS services by Party A's customers.

                   CONFIDENTIAL TREATMENT HAS BEEN REQUESTED
                    AND CONFIDENTIAL TERMS HAVE BEEN OMITTED

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IV.      RIGHTS OF THE PARTIES

(I)      Party A's Rights

1.       Party A shall be entitled to review or entrust qualified institution to
         review the information provided by Party B and the content of Party B's
         application services.

2.       Party A shall be entitled to refuse to transmit any information which
         contravenes to state directives, regulations and policies and other
         contents that Party A deems inappropriate, and demand compensation from
         Party B for any adverse impact on Party A's business and reputation.

3.       Party A shall be entitled to demand Party B to amend, modify and delete
         those contents which Party A deems necessary to do so.

4.       Party A shall be entitled to formulate targets for the application
         services provided by Party B, and evaluate Party B's performance in
         accordance with such targets. The evaluation methods are detailed in
         the attachment to this Agreement - Chapter 9 of the Monternet(TM) SP
         Cooperation Administrative Measures, MMS Business Handbook.

5.       Party A shall be entitled to give guidance and supervision of the
         pricing policy of Party B's service.

6.       Party A shall be entitled to reasonable revenue. (See Section 6 of this
         Agreement for detailed revenue sharing).

(II)     Party B's Rights

1.       Party B shall be entitled to determine the pricing of its services
         under Party A's guidance.

2.       Party B shall be entitled to obtain statistical data regarding customer
         visits to the Party B's information and application service contents
         through the network platform.

3.       Without Party B's consent or written authorization, Party A shall not
         transfer, release or resell any information products provided by Party
         B to any third party unrelated to this Agreement by any means.

4.       Party B shall be entitled to a reasonable share of the business
         revenue. See Section 6 of this Agreement for detailed revenue sharing.

5.       In case of significant discrepancy between the statistics of Party A
         and Party B, Party B may require Party A to provide detailed phone
         bills for verification, the details of which are set forth in Chapter 6
         of the Monternet(TM) SP Cooperation Administrative Measures,
         MMS Business Handbook.

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V.       CONFIDENTIALITY

1.       For purpose of this Agreement, "Proprietary Information" means any
         information obtained by one party from the other party ("DISCLOSING
         PARTY") during their cooperation which is developed, created or
         discovered by the Disclosing Party, or be available to or transferred
         to the Disclosing Party that are commercially valuable to the
         Disclosing Party's business. Proprietary Information includes without
         limitation trade secrets, computer program, design technology, idea,
         know-how, technique, data, business and product development plan,
         customer's information and other information related to the business of
         the Disclosing Party, or confidential information obtained by the
         Disclosing Party from others. The Parties acknowledge that the
         Disclosing Party shall own Proprietary Information, and such
         Proprietary Information is of significant importance to such Disclosing
         Party. The cooperation relationship between the Parties hereto has
         generated the relationship of confidence and trust related to
         Proprietary Information between the parties hereto.

2.       Without prior written consent of the Disclosing Party, the other party
         shall keep any of Proprietary Information in confidence and may not use
         or disclose to any person or entity such Proprietary Information,
         except for normal performance of the obligations provided hereunder.

3.       Both Parties shall bear non-disclosure responsibility for this
         cooperation and the details of this Agreement. Without the prior
         written consent of the other party, either party shall not disclose
         such cooperation and details of this Agreement to any third party.

VI.      REVENUE SHARING AND FEE SETTLEMENT

1.       Party A and Party B cooperate to provide MMS service to Party A's
         customers, and both parties are entitled to reasonable revenue.

2.       Telecommunications fee generated by use of Party A's network resources
         to access Party B's services shall be solely owned by Party A.

3.       Party A shall, on behalf of Party B, collect service fee from its
         customers for their use of Party B's services charge from such service.

4.       Party A shall figure out the information fee receivable from its
         customers for use of Party B's services, 15% of which shall be taken by
         Party A, while the remaining 85% shall be paid to Party B.

5.       The basis for fee settlement shall be the Monternet(TM) information fee
         bill provided by China Mobile.

6.       Party B may, pursuant to the fee settlement bill issued by Party A,
         conduct fee settlement with Party's A local subsidiary without entering
         into separate agreement with Party A's local provincial subsidiary.

7.       Settlement period: China Mobile settles with Party B on monthly basis.

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8.       Fee calculation standards and settlement process are described in
         Chapter 6 of Monternet(TM) SP Cooperation Administrative Measures, MMS
         Business Handbook.

9.       Party A and Party B shall pay taxes arising out of the MMS service
         revenue respectively.

10.      Party B shall provide Party A with its accurate bank account and
         related information:

              Name of Beneficiary: Shanghai Weilan Computer Company Limited
              Opening Bank: *************************
              Account No. *****************

VII.     LIABILITY FOR BREACH

1.       If any party's breach of this Agreement causes this Agreement
         unenforceable, the non-breaching party shall be entitled to terminate
         this Agreement and require compensation for any losses thus incurred.

2.       If any party's breach causes adverse social impact or economic losses
         on the other party, the non-breach party shall be entitled to hold the
         breaching party liable and demand corresponding economic compensation,
         or even terminate this Agreement.

VIII.    TERM OF THIS AGREEMENT

1.       This Agreement shall become effective as of the date of its execution
         and be effective for one year.

2.       The term of this Agreement may be automatically renewable for another
         year unless otherwise terminated by one party giving a written notice
         to the other party at least one month prior to its expiration.

3.       This Agreement may be automatically terminated upon agreement by both
         parties during the term of this Agreement.

4.       If the occurrence of any force majeure events makes it impossible to
         continue performance of this Agreement, this Agreement may be
         automatically terminated upon settlement of all outstanding bills by
         both parties.

5.       If the occurrence of a certain event makes it impossible for one party
         to continue performance of this Agreement, and if such event is
         foreseeable, such party shall notify such event to the other party
         within five working days after its reasonable forecast of such event,
         and cooperate with the other party to complete all outstanding matters.
         If such party fails to notify the other party of such event and thus
         make the other party suffer losses, such party shall indemnify the
         other party correspondingly.

                   CONFIDENTIAL TREATMENT HAS BEEN REQUESTED
                    AND CONFIDENTIAL TERMS HAVE BEEN OMITTED

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IX.      MISCELLANEOUS

1.       Attachment to this Agreement, Monternet(TM). SP Cooperation
         Administrative Measures, MMS Business Handbook, has the same legal
         effect with this Agreement.

2.       Any outstanding matter shall be addressed by both parties through
         friendly negotiation.

3.       If any dispute arises relating the content or performance of this
         Agreement, the parties shall settle it through friendly consultation;
         if the consultation fails to resolve the dispute, either party may
         bring lawsuit before a Chinese court with due jurisdiction.

4.       This Agreement is made in duplicate and each party shall hold one copy.
         Each copy shall have the same legal effect.

Party A: China Mobile Communication Corporation (seal)

Representative: /s/ Ye Bing

Date: May 30, 2003

Party B: Shanghai Weilan Computer Company Limited

Representative: /s/ Raymond Lei Yang

Date: June 1, 2003

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