We would like to share with you some pleasant news on one hand, disappointing your expectations on the other. Lately, we have been negotiating with a number of companies regarding the SMS-payments connection within different provinces of China. As a result, it became clear that the situation with SMS-payments in general across the territory of National Republic of China is at its worst. China's government does not in any way support the development of such technology, severely regulating and restricting its use. Strictly prohibited are not only erotic and gambling resources, but any content that has anything with politics, religion, balance replenishment services and much more. Under the pressure from the government extremely low costs are set for premium SMS-messages. Consequently, the payout made by mobile carriers cannot be high and profitable. Apart form the above mentioned, the level of of fraud based on mobile phones use in China is exceptionally high, due to which mobile carriers are forced to a set particularly high payout period (as long as 6 month with some mobile carriers).

Let's sum things up: we now have the possibility to offer you the connection in China, but.... only a small number of partners will be able to use it. Our financial department managers are now starting to accept the requests to connect China, however we do ask you not to waste their time in vain and strongly recommend you to think through the necessity of connecting this country to your service before requesting it due to following reasons:

• SMS-message cost sent from China is only 1 RMB only (around 0.14 USD);
• From each SMS you will receive only around 4 cents (30%);
• Due to the withholding of the payout by China mobile carriers, we will be able to transfer your share to you only following 4-5 months;
• Based on the experience of our partners, fraud percentage can reach as much as 10-20% amongst the messages received by your services;
• The content of your website will be thoroughly examined by the authorities in the field of mobile communication rules in China.

If you think that your website will pass the highly demanding moderation process and still be profitable, despite the low cost and high level of fraud activities, feel free to send your requests for connection to our financial department. Please attach to your request a short description of your service and the link to the payment page in Russian, English or Chinese languages containing detailed instruction to services payment process in China (which are presented on rates page). The following page should not be accessible for your users until the moment we have received the approval from the mobile carriers. The process of debating on your request might take up to one month.

Overlooking the generally tough situation while working with China, a pleasant exception are actually semi province of Hong Kong which only partially subordinated to China's laws, and the Republic of China on the island of Taiwan which completely refuses subordination to the laws of China. Currently, you can receive payments from Taiwan in accordance with rates given on our website. Soon enough we will connect Hong Kong for general access.

The total population of Taiwan and Hong Kong is more than 23 million people. These regions are major industrial centers with highly developed mobile infrastructure and computer communication, with a hundred-percent level of mobile communication penetration, thus we hope that many of you will benefit the connection of these countries. The population of China, as is known, is higher than 1.3 billion people, however only a quarter of the population uses mobile communication. Nevertheless, Chinese users make up a significant part of the worldwide web-population, and we will be happy to know that some of our partners found the way to monetize their services with China's SMS-messages worth 14th cents.