EBT
/ APOL
APOL, partly owned by EBT, began to profit since
November 2001. Last year the revenue for 9 months
before striking a balance reached one billion
NTD, doubling the sum of the same term in the
previous year and reaching 78% of the financial
forecast target. At current APOL owns 240,000
broadband users (75,000 users for ADSL and 170,000
users for Cable Modem.)
APOL repositions itself as ISP and Broadband
Portal. The established APBB Website will develop
toward broadband portal providing rich content
in the future to provide users and the future
3G users (next year) more comprehensive contents
and to enter the domestic broadband content
market. With the effects of APOL's integration
into EBT Group, APOL also adjusts its operational
direction to reposition its new "Pentagon"
operation model: It will focus on broadband
contents value-added services, multiple broadband
access services, free dial-up connection services,
ISR and data exchange centers. The company also
plans to go public. Taking the internationalization
and business development trend of Internet operators
into consideration, the company will hold an
open attitude to be listed in overseas capital
markets.
In last April the website www.apbb.com.tw was
set up. Currently it provides eight topics and
its registered members exceed 300,000 persons.
It is the most comprehensive domestic broadband
content website with the richest topics included.
It distinguishes itself from other websites
with only audio/video content emphasized, by
its seven topics, including Audio/Video, Learning,
Mobile, Chatting, Communities, Fortune-telling
and @channel.
Its development strategy makes use of multiple
member activities and free dial-up services
to unify more than 90% of important domestic
ICPs engaging in network market integration.
It advertises with the help of different alliance
partners to bring in new members and increase
web traffic. Since last July APBB Website created
a monthly revenue of more than 800,000 NTD for
APOL. Since November 2002 APBB Website cooperates
with Sina.com to provide part of its own broadband
audio/video contents through Sina.com's platform
in China and then share the profits.