Mobile phone users in China will be able to enjoy a wide variety of information services including News, Stock quotes, Entertainment, Sports, Shopping guides, etc. These services and applications will be based on Nokia Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) platform. SOHU.com will identify and develop content specifically for these services.

"Innovative wireless Internet services will bring lots of information and services available while on the move," said Mr. Liu Chijin, Vice President of Business Development, Nokia (China) Investment, Co., LTD, "Nokia aims to cooperate with local partners to develop and offer more mobile Internet services to Chinese users. It will also be beneficial to Internet businesses, that will enjoy the extension of the mobile Internet, receive positive publicity, attract more advertisers. All that is needed for mobile e-commerce."

"However, the ultimate benefits of mobile Internet services will be in the expansion of the total Internet businesses to include both wired and wireless applications. Think of it as 'mobile e-commerce'. We are just at the beginning of the development this exciting new market potential." Further added Mr. Liu.

SOHU.com and Nokia put on a launch demonstration using Nokia's Short Messaging System platform in November of 1999. It was the first time Nokia media phone were used to browse the Internet in Chinese, marking an important progress in Nokia's effort to develop applications for the Chinese market.

"There are more than 40million mobile phones in China and the number is still increasing exponentially. Nokia and SOHU.com can now put these mobile phone users in touch with the Internet in Chinese just by pressing a few buttons, thus doubling or tripling the size of the total Chinese Internet market. We are really on our way in making the Internet an indispensable part of the daily life of every Chinese." Dr. Zhang concluded.

About SOHU.com:
SOHU.com (www.sohu.com), the leading internet portal in China with a current (February, 2000) page view posting of 10million per day, is the first major Chinese language web destination on the Internet. SOHU.com has pioneered many firsts, including the introduction of banner advertising and the setting of standard for Web traffic assessment in China. "SOHU.com is the top brand in the Chinese Internet and NOKIA is the top brand in wireless communications. We are proud to be a partner of NOKIA in this important project", said Dr. Charles Zhang, President and CEO of SOHU.com.