RAPIDTVNews is reporting that according to telco regulator Arcep, there were 58 million customers in France! Wowzer! For those of you that get just a little over-excited at stats (you know who you are, you are getting ever-so-slightly moist at the impending stat attack!), penetration (!) has risen from about 88% to just a shade…
UK: Virgin Mobile says it has the cheapest deal now!
Here we go again… let’s see who has the cheapest deal this week! Virgin Mobile claiming to have the cheapest deal now, as you will have seen (a lot) if you have been living in the UK this week – they’ve been out advertising! The deal rolls in a £8.50/month, which let’s face it, is…
3 Austria says it has 90K users of it’s Mobile TV service
3 Austria is saying it now has 90K regular users of it’s hybrid Moby TV service – so that’s 3G streaming and DVB-H combined. Apparently Mobile TV was launched in June 2008, and in a neat way of working, all the operators can access a shared DVB-H for re-selling – the way it should be…
mSpot & Sony Music Entertainment Reach Customizable Ringtone Deal
mSpot, Inc. has announced it has signed a distribution agreement with Sony Music Entertainment to add the company’s vast catalog to mSpot’s current collection, which now includes more than 400,000 song titles. The addition of Sony Music Entertainment’s catalog makes mSpot’s customizable ringtone offering one of the largest in North America. Crumbs! mSpot’s customers will…
eXpansys: Motorola Aura and Nokia 8800 Arte Gold – the height of luxury
eXpansys have let me know that they have two luxury phones that you might want to purchase available – and for the sheer cash-money newsworthiness, I thought I should share: The luxurious Motorola Aura combines superb craftsmanship and a distinctive interface inspired by luxury watches. The Motorola Aura features the world’s first 16 million colour…
Palm Pre coming to the UK – or not?
According to TechRadar, Palm is refusing to confirm much in the way of details about when/how the Pre is coming to the UK! A website teaser was thought to be the proof needed, but it would seem no – the device vendor won’t confirm much above: “The Pre will launch with Sprint in the US…
Germany wants another go at DVB-H
You might remember the debacle of the German DVB-H spectrum, involving a company called Mobile 3.0, which had to hand the license back in the end. Well now Germany has decided it’s going to try again. In simple terms, there is a special committee created to look at investor interest, and models for that investment.…
The BBC is pushing Mobile TV & video with iPlayer
The FT.com has an article talking about how iPlayer, in it’s many mobile guises is helping to drive the adoption and usage of Mobile video. As you may or may not know, iPlayer is the BBC’s online VoD catch-up service, and given the quality of their programming, it’s becoming an InterWeb dynamo – much to…
Top ten things to looks for in a Mobile
TechDigest has compiled a list of the top 10 things it would like to see in a Mobile device. I won’t spoil it and reproduce the whole list here, because (a) that would spoil it and (b) you should take a look at their site – really nicely re-designed recently. What I will do is…
Follow-up: Handset trends at MWC that don’t matter
I wrote an article a week ago about trends that are going to be seen at MWC, but which in isolation don’t matter – essentially I was saying technology for the sake of technology does not a good Mobile make! I touched up touchscreens, memory, and camera megapixels as three “measures” of devices these days,…