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Ourgame Joins Hands with 99Bill to Boost China's Online Game Growth

2007-01-25 18:16 1303

BEIJING, Jan. 25 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- 99Bill Corporation

( http://www.99bill.com ), the leading independent third-party payment service provider in China, recently announced the signing of a cooperation agreement with Ourgame ( http://www.ourgame.com ), China's leading online game and entertainment operator. 99Bill will provide real time and convenient payment services to Ourgame's one hundred millions global subscribers. The 99Bill's payment platform enables Ourgame's multiple age group user to pay for the services easily with bank cards as well as prepaid card in real time, and additionally, 99Bill will support Ourgame's on going service expansion with innovative and customized payment solutions.

As the leading independent third-party payment platform, 99Bill has built extensive partnerships with a board range of service providers in all major Internet and wireless service sectors, aggregated over 14 million registered accounts and won greater recognition among its users and partners. 99Bill's unique payment solution for the online game industry supports debit cards, credit cards, prepaid cards, and virtual accounts, as well as offline payment methods such as postal and bank wires. The solution significantly increases the game operators' operation margin, user adoption, age group coverage and distribution agency efficiency, offering great convenience and payment choices for end users.

According to Oliver Kwan, CEO of 99Bill Corporation, as online game services in China expends rapidly in terms of geography, functionality, broaden user groupsand end devices and platform, the demand for efficient, flexible, real time, and low cost payment solutions is accelerating, and at the same time online payment is gaining recognition and is accepted among the young and matured online game end users in China. 99Bill's online game payment solution not only supports 800 million credit cards and debit cards in China, but also 200 million prepaid users as well. Additionally, the flexible solution supports many payment features unique in online games. The partnership with Ourgame demonstrates further the rapid adoption of 99Bill online game solutions by China's online game industry.

Commenting on the cooperation, Wu Guoliang, Vice President of Ourgame, said with confidence, "As one of China's largest online game operator, Ourgame is discreet in choosing partners. As online game sector is developing and expanding from large cities to second and third tier cities, convenient and cost-effective payment becomes essential for Ourgame to maintain its rapid growth. We are more than happy to see 99Bill join our effort with our numerous partners to boost the development of the online game industry. With the help of 99Bill's reliable payment platform, we will be able to dedicate fully to developing more attractive and excited online games.

As a leading independent third-party payment service provider in China, 99Bill has always strictly maintained its third party status. As the first email and mobile phone-number-based payment platform in China, 99Bill has already established partnerships with the leading internet content and service providers, as well as mobile value-added service providers. The agreements with Ourgame once again solidify 99Bill's leadership position in China's payment market.

About 99Bill Corporation

99Bill Corporation ( http://www.99bill.com ) is the leading third party payment service providers in China with 14 millions registered accounts, and the first email and mobile number based payment services platform in China targeting 400 millions internet and mobile users. The comprehensive payment solutions enable any merchant, mobile user and internet user to make and receive payments securely and conveniently with 800 million local debt cards, 50 million credit cards, prepaid cards, mobile payments, virtual accounts, digital coupons, bank wire and postal wire. Additionally, the payment services support multiple end devices, such as PC, mobile phones and regular telephones. Since its launch early 2005, 99Bill has secured major partnerships for payment services with the leading service providers in China, such as Baidu, Netease, Sohu, and Gome.

For details, please visit http://www.99bill.com .

About Ourgame Corporation

Ourgame is an integrated online entertainment service provider, focusing on the online games, especially online cards and board games. Until now, having 70 million registered users and 700 thousand payment members, daily page view 30 million, 10million active users in a week, peak simultaneous players 320,000, Ourgame is the largest online game website in the world. Furthermore, OURGAME has published and will publish multi-linguistic game versions, including simplified Chinese character, complicated Chinese character, Japanese and Korean. Game servers are widely set up in China, USA, Japan and Korea, which provide a forceful platform for the global expansion of Ourgame.

Source: 99Bill Corporation
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