Oniontech's business was established in March 2000 by its current Chief
Technological Officer, Hur Jung Young and a group of software development
engineers, to provide software solutions for mobile telecommunications in
Korea. In 2002, Oniontech introduced its Ring Back Tone (RBT) solution, which
remains its flagship product today.
The Group has developed and launched a number of software solutions and
content-related services for value added services in the mobile
telecommunications industry. The Group's products allow telcos to offer value
added services to their mobile phone subscribers. Under its software solutions
business, the Group offers a range of solutions including Ring Back Tone (RBT)
solutions and 3G Voice Messaging System (3GVMS). Currently, the RBT solution is
the Group's flagship product and it enables subscribers to customise ring back
tones using music, comical voice messages, customised recorded messages and
various sound effects, so that callers will hear a customised ring back tone
instead of the traditional ringing tone.
For its content related services, the Group provides RBT contents and content
aggregation services involving the sourcing and compiling of news and lifestyle
information for mobile internet services. Its customers include LG Telecom and
KT Freetel. In 2006, Oniontech's main operating subsidiary in Korea started
operating 3G wireless internet portal for KT Freetel mobile phone subscribers.
OT Korea also developed solutions for interactive terrestrial DMB services,
which will be commercialised in the first half of 2007 in Korea for the first
time in the world.
The Group expanded its business outside Korea by providing RBT and 3G VMS
solutions to mobile operators including Guandong Mobile Communication
Corporation in the PRC, KDDI Corporation and Vodafone KK in Japan, and Mobile
Telesystems OJSC in Russia through its collaboration with NEC.
Oniontech headquarters are located in Korea and through its subsidiaries and
associated companies, it also has a presence in China, Australia and Japan.
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