Chunghwa Telecom Signs Up Yahoo Search; Google Gone

The largest Taiwanese Telecommunications Company Chunghwa Telecom has signed an agreement with Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) to integrate the company’s oneSearch service into the carrier’s portal, according to Lin Jen-Hon (pictured, left), a VP of Chunghwa Telecom’s mobile business group.

The Chunghwa Telecom executive told Dow Jones Newswires: “This is a service that will give users a faster search function on their phones.” However, the agreement is limited, and sounds a little more like a trial. Chunghwa said it is not exclusive and will only be valid for a year. Still, Yahoo separately confirmed that the deal will mean it displaces Google (NSDQ: GOOG) as the search partner on the carrier’s portal.

Yahoo said with the addition of Chunghwa, it now has more than 70 oneSearch partnerships with carriers around the world. In the U.S., Yahoo has exclusive arrangements with both AT&T (NYSE: T) and T-Mobile USA. Today, it also announced that its new portal http://new.m.yahoo.com is available on 100 more devices in nine more countries and worldwide, including Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, Australia, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Spain and Italy.