Yahoo’s mobile search service landed AT & T mobile phone network

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T & T Corporation Monday said they would gradually add the Yahoo search service to the mobile networks menu of 70 million users in the United States.

AT & T plans to use their mobile Internet portal Yahoo’s oneSearch to provide a set of mobile Internet services, including news links, financial information, weather, online album service Flickr and mobile Web search. This is two companies in January this year, revised part of the cooperation agreement. In the original agreement, Yahoo need to AT & T’s broadband computer network TV (Internet TV) and mobile phone customers to provide search and advertising services. The updated agreement, AT & T’s YellowPages.com will provide customers with local search information.

The new agreement replaces the Yahoo and AT & T in 2001 signed a broadband network revenue-sharing agreement, the old agreement only applies to register to use the U.S. phone company broadband Internet access users.

At the same time, Yahoo and Verizon Communications in a similar agreement in the broadband computer expanded the scope of cooperation contracts. In addition to the Yahoo Verizon’s broadband and TV network users with network services, also expand the scope of services to mobile phone users.

Yahoo, one of the rivals Google and Verizon in negotiations, hoping to become the company’s mobile phone network, the priority search service providers. Verizon is the second largest mobile operator, once they acquire local wireless service provider Alltel deal was approved by the relevant authorities will exceed the current market leader AT & T.

Yahoo said they had 60 and the global reach and cooperative relations between operators, the total number of users for nearly 800 million mobile phone networks OneSearch service. These relations of cooperation throughout Asia, Europe and Latin America. With AT & T’s plan implemented, has announced an agreement in the two-thirds have been started. A Yahoo spokesman said, OneSearch has become the Philippines two operators – Smart and Globe – the largest use of the service.

In addition, Yahoo’s search service in the United Kingdom and elsewhere in Europe also very popular. Yahoo’s services in these areas, mainly through T-Mobile, France Telecom’s Orange and Telefonica’s O2 and other operators to provide the agreement.

IDC wireless analyst Scott Ellison said in a statement, ” the cooperation with AT & T will enable Yahoo to reach10 million mobile Internet users, providing advertisers for the scale in the United States.”