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Wadah Khanfar, Director General of the Al Jazeera Network, stated:
"The launch of Al Jazeera's mobile websites is an excellent next step in our mission to make our content accessible to as many people as we can across the globe. In addition to broadening our existing reach it will offer an essential portal for people whose only access to news is via their mobile handsets. We are very pleased with this new development."
Saeed Othman Bawazir, Al Jazeera's Director of Technology, commented, "The Mobile Web initiative is one of the key services that is being launched as part of our New Media strategy. The aim is to make our content more accessible to new audiences across various new platforms. With the launch of this Mobile service, we hope to provide our audience with a customized news browsing experience on the mobile device of their choice."
The mobile websites will provide Al Jazeera headline news, business reports, sports coverage and more. The launch of the mobile websites is part of the ongoing Al Jazeera New Media initiative, which includes delivering video and other content over interactive platforms such as YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and iTunes as well as other popular services.
Al Jazeera's mobile websites will go live on January 15, 2009.
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