The Silicon Valley-based Internet company has struck new deals to offer mobile phone Web services through nine network operators across Asia. They’ve also declared on Tuesday that the company introduced a mobile service called Yahoo Go in Taiwan. These deals build on six earlier Asian carrier partnerships announced in June.

“Those 16 deals will give us roughly 40 percent coverage of all subscribers in those countries,” Yahoo’s top mobile executive, Marco Boerries, said in a phone interview.

While Google unveiled their plans by offering software to create a new class of Internet-ready phones, Yahoo is racing to attract a lot of Internet services delivered via mobile phones subscribers. Telecom carriers and ISPs (internet service providers) are looking to capture a chunk of a market that research firm Gartner Inc sees generating advertising sales of $12.8 billion by 2011.

“We have a clear goal to lead the market. The goal is to exceed 50 percent.” Boerries declared that are more deals to come.

Seems that Yahoo partnership deals will be unveiled on Tuesday at an industry trade fair located in Macau. This deals include three Indian carriers: Aircel Ltd, BPL Mobile and BSNL; two Malaysian carriers: DiGi Telecommunications Sdn Bhd and PT Excelcomindo Pratama Tbk two Indonesian carriers: Hutch 3 and PT Indosat Tbk, along with PCCW Mobile HK Ltd of Hong Kong and Starhub Ltd of Singapore.

I’m sure that the key moment in this asian expansion was the release of Yahoo OneSearch Internet service for mobile phones. Until now , The Silicon-Valley brand has struck deal with 20 mobile operators worldwide and the best example is the contract with Telefonica SA of Spain, that covers up to 100 million phone subscribers in several European and Latin American markets.

Yahoo won’t stop here, that’s sure. They developement will continue and their profits will defenetly grow. What do you think about this expansion ? Feel free to comment.