Channel - Disney Mobile

Disney Unveils Handsets For Japan Venture; Focusing On Women - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 22 Jan 2008 06:08 PM PST

Disney (NYSE: DIS) has unveiled the three handsets which it will offer in its Japanese MVNO, due to launch on March 1st. “Aimed at young working women, Disney Mobile will…

Dutch Operator KPN Finds Success In Germany With Cheap Calls, Not Content - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Wed 19 Dec 2007 04:48 AM PST

Dutch mobile operator KPN has found success in Germany with the cut-rate, no-frills, no subsidized handsets mobile plan it offers through Base, a brand it had imported from Belgium. Indeed,…

Disney To Start Another MVNO, In Japan - 1 Comment
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Sat 10 Nov 2007 07:56 PM PST

Disney is planning another MVNO, this time in Japan according to the Nikkei business daily, reports Reuters. Not put off by two failures in the US, “Disney aims to win…

Kajeet Offers Credit To Disney Customers - 1 Comment
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 09 Oct 2007 04:33 PM PST

Kid-targeting MVNO Kajeet is dangling a carrot for customers of the defunct Disney (NYSE: DIS) MVNO—a $50 airtime credit to all Disney Mobile customers who transfer their phone number to…

MoComment: Google Should Follow Apple, Not Disney - 6 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 02 Oct 2007 11:05 PM PST

What is Google (NSDQ: GOOG) thinking? I’m not being facetious, I really want to know… The company has a lot of mobile services available, and there are quite a few…

Updated: Disney Mobile Closing; Second Disney MVNO To Shutter; WDIG Will Explore Licensing A La ESPN - 6 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 27 Sep 2007 10:31 AM PST

Updated below: Later this morning, sources close to the situation tell mocoNews.net, the Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) Company will announce that it is closing its second MVNO in as many…

Disney MVNO Closure: The History in Links - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 27 Sep 2007 10:30 AM PST

Disney (NYSE: DIS) MVNO lasted 15 months, and its history, in link (reverse chronological order): -- Disney MVNO: In Process of Evaluating -- Disney Mobile, A Year Later -- Interview:…

Disney MVNO: In Process of Evaluating - 4 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 17 Sep 2007 12:46 PM PST

Disney (NYSE: DIS) CFO Thomas Staggs spoke this morning at Merrill Lynch Media and Entertainment Conference in Marina Del Ray, and AlleyInsider picks up on it: Staggs said Disney has…

Disney’s Japanese Mobile Social Network Wonder Days - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 11 Apr 2007 07:27 AM PST

Disney has a new mobile social network in Japan, called Wonder Days, described as a cross between Habbo Hotel and Mickey Mouse. It’s a rich Flash-based service where you can…

Disney Mobile, A Year Later - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 08 Apr 2007 11:32 PM PST

RCR has some stats from Disney on the usage of its kids-and-parents focused MVNO service Disney Mobile. About 30 percent of the MVNO’s subscribers make use of its GPS location…

@ Billboard: AT&T’s Jim Ryan, Disney’s Larry Shapiro Square Off - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 26 Mar 2007 07:46 AM PST

The Billboard Mobile Entertainment Live at CTIA kicked off with a keynote by MTVN’s Greg Clayman (more on that in a bit). Now going on: an energetic staged showdown between…

Earnings: Disney’s Mobile Investments - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 10 Nov 2006 12:16 AM PST

Disney announced its Q3 results today, and not much details on mobile..some of them below: CFO Thomas Staggs said the investment in Disney Mobile’s launch “will be offset by the…

Disney Mobile Start Holiday Promo - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 01 Nov 2006 06:51 PM PST

Disney Mobile, the MVNO started by Disney and aimed at kids and parents, may have been feeling some heat from MobileESPN’s closure, and is trying better ways to market itself:…

Disney Will Spend $30 Million To Shut Down Mobile ESPN - 1 Comment
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 03 Oct 2006 09:11 AM PST

This articles starts: “The Walt Disney Co. will spend about $30 million to shut down its Mobile ESPN wireless telephone services, but remains “excited” about its family-oriented Disney Mobile phone…

Interview: Steve Wadsworth, President, Walt Disney Interactive: Disney MVNO Post ESPN - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 03 Oct 2006 04:11 AM PST

[By Staci D. Kramer] Over the past few months I’ve spoken with Steve Wadsworth, president, Walt Disney Interactive, about Disney’s MVNO plans, most recently at spring CTIA when the details…

@MES: Changing Channels, Going Off Portal, The Rise Of User Gen & The Persistence Of Games - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Mon 11 Sep 2006 12:10 PM PST

The US mobile content market is going off-portal if this panel is to be believed..."Three years ago coming to the US was like stepping back in timeâ€¦that isn’t the case…

Disney Mobile’s 30-Minute Infomercial On ABC Family - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 28 Aug 2006 10:09 AM PST

Little bit of corporate-synergy help for Disney for the continuing rollout of its MVNO Disney Mobile: it is producing a half-hour TV series about it that’s expected to debut on…

Mossberg: Disney Mobile: “Smart Idea” Works Well; Some Drawbacks - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 15 Aug 2006 07:09 PM PST

One piece of good news for Disney Mobile—a fairly positive review from the WSJ’s Walt Mossberg, who says after testing “overall, we think it’s a smart idea.” He notes three…

Disney Mobile Drops UK Launch Due to “Competitive Environment” - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 14 Aug 2006 09:08 AM PST

Well, someone finally had some financial prudence: Disney has shelved plans to launch an MVNO in the U.K., saying the market is in flux. It was supposed to launch there…

Walt Disney Q3 Earnings—ESPN To Stay On Mobile, MVNO Not Guaranteed; $150M Investment - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 09 Aug 2006 08:09 AM PST

Walt Disney has done its 2006 Q3 earnings call...the financial highlights are in this Reuters piece. Of relevance to mobile is that Disney sees “enormous potential” for internet and mobile…

Disney Mobile Launches TV Ad Campaign - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 02 Aug 2006 02:09 PM PST

Disney Mobile has announced a TV ad campaign run by SF-based BuderEngel and Friends. “The commercials target parents, highlighting the comprehensive, family-tailored features of the national wireless phone service to…

Will The Disney-Branded MVNO Fare Better? - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 20 Jul 2006 09:08 AM PST

I managed to get the ML client report I mentioned last night, and I’ll report more later, but a quick one on Disney Mobile, the kids-MVNO...more doubts from ML analysts:…

Disney Soft-Launches Mobile Phone Service, Online - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 12 Jun 2006 11:07 AM PST

Disney Mobile, whose sister MVNO MobileESPN has not being doing as well as expected, has soft-launched its MVNO service online. Service plans start at $60 per month for 450 minutes…

Meet the Cell-Phone Tracking Parents - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Mon 05 Jun 2006 01:07 PM PST

In this article on tracking cellphones (either via GPS or by base tower triangulation) there’s an interesting throw-away line...”In the U.S. alone, Disney projects a market of 20 million to…

From CTIA: Disney Mobile: Interview, Steve Wadsworth, President, Walt Disney Internet Group - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Fri 14 Apr 2006 08:05 AM PST

[By Staci D. Kramer] The question from a colleague came up enroute to the Las Vegas Convention Center for Disney Mobile’s unveiling: Wasn’t Disney making a mistake by not including…