Following on from the last blog I wrote, I thought it only fair to go and have a nose around the Player X website. What I actually found was some pretty decent video content titles – and impressively, it looks like they have done something with them in a number of instances – case in…
Virgin UK does games and video with Player X
Player X has been appointed as the offical aggregator of all games and video content for Virgin Mobile in the UK. The deal includes all the portal management, aggregation, QA, and any encoding required. It’s quite unusual that a single company has been appointed to do what is potentially such a large amount (both in…
Celebrity autograph wallpapers!!
So here’s the latest thing, from Mobile Fun – celebrity autograph wallpapers! Yes, you can personalise your home screen now with the signature of a famous person! Currently all those famous people are long dead, but Mobile Fun reckon there is mileage here to get (a)live celebrities in on the act. The autographs are copy-protected,…
French Mobile TV subscribers: 1m + 200k = 1.2m!
Screendigest states that as of December 2007, there were 1.2m Mobile TV subscribers, consisting of 1 million Orange subscribers, and 200,000 from SFR. According to their research, that put France ahead of Italy as of Christmas 07. Apparently both Operators saw growth rates of over 40% in Q4 2007, due to them launching unlimited mobile…
T-Mobile gives Femtocells a push
T-Mobile is going to start trialling Femtocells in the 2nd Quarter of this year, in Germany, Netherlands, and the UK….
3 suffers setback in MNP dispute
3 sufffered a setback on Friday (18th Jan) when a judge ruled it could not have access to it’s rivals documents and emails. 3 hoped this access would prove that Vodaone, O2, Orange, and T-Mobile colluded to slow down the process of customers keeping their number when they ported networks….
2ergo wins five-year contract with O2
2ergo has won a five-year contract with O2 UK to provide mobile marketing services, utilising it’s multisend platform. As the name suggests, the platform will allow O2 to communicate with it’s end-users, over SMS, MMS, and Email.
UK: Wrong Tariffs are costing us £8.45bn per year!
A study by moneysupermarket.com has found that the Mobile Phone Industry is raking in more than £8.45bn per year from customers on the wrong tariff!
O2 customer numbers soar on the back of iPhone interest
This isn’t a post about how many iPhones have been sold (since people don’t leave that kind of data laying about!), but rather about the knock-on effect in O2 stores in the UK. It’s been reported that there has been a three-fold (that’s 3x for those of you that like to abbreviate) increase in…
Orange Applies for 2 DVB-H Mobile TV Licences (in France)
Orange has applied for 2 DVB-H channels in France, in response to a call for applications made by the French Audiovisual Council. The first is Orange Sports TV, which is already available via 3G Unicast (streaming). Orange Sports TV is a sports information channel, launched originally in September 2007. It is also available now via…