Earnings Call Excerpt
Linktone Q4 and Full Year 2005 Earnings Conference Call Transcript (LTON)
February 27, 2006
Executives
Michael Guangxin Li, Chief Operating Officer
Colin Sung, Acting CEO and Chief Financial Officer
Derek Sulger, Founder and Director
Him Tiem Foo, Deputy CFO
Analysts
Wallace Cheung, Credit Suisse
Chang Qiu, Forun Technology Research and Advisory
Michael Zang, Equity Partners
Ming Zhao, Susquehanna Financial Group
Patrick Lin, Primarius Capital
Presentation
Brandy Viacente
Thank you and welcome to Linktone’s regular quarterly conference call. With me here today are Mr. Colin Sung, acting Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, Miss Him Tiem Foo, Deputy Chief Financial Officer, Mr. Derek Sulger, a founder and Director of our company and Mr. Michael Li, one of our directors and the former Chief Operating Officer of Linktone.
Earlier today, we announced our financial results for the Q4 and fiscale year ended December 31st, 2005. in addition, we announced in Friday that the company will be undertaking a management transition. To give our shareholders a full update on these events, Colin Sung will begin today’s call by first reviewing our recent business highlights. Second, our deputy CFO, Him Tiem Foo, will review our financials for the 4th quarter and full year 2005.
Third, we will provide our business outlook for Q1 ’06. then, Derek Sulger and Michael Li will discuss our management transition.
Lastly, and most importantly, we will open the floor up to your questions. Before we begin, I would like to remind you that during the course of this call, we will make forward looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties. These statements include but are not limited to statements regarding linktone’s business objectives and plans for 2006 and the anticipated impact of certain business events sucgh as changes in mobile operator policies, linktone’s recent acquisition of Ninesky international Limited and strategic investment in Ojava Overseas Limited on Linktone’s 2006 gross revenues and net income and outlook for Q1 2006 financial results. You can also identify forward looking statements by terminology such as will, expect, anticipate, feature, intend, plan, believe, estimate and similar statements. The accuracy of these statements may be impacted by a number of business risks and uncertainties that cause our atual results to differ materially from t hose projected or anticipated including risks outlined in our filings with the SEC such as our registration statement on form F-1 and annual report on form 20-F. we do not undertake any obligation to update this forward looking information except as required under applicable law.
I am confident that michael’s experience as a member of the management team as well ashis overall expertise in China’s wirelss and internet markets will aid the board and aid management in making the critical choices necessary to meet these challenges. I also hope that Michael joining the board of directors conveys to you, our shareholders and our analysts, his excitement about the company and linktone
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