German mobile operator E-Plus is shutting down its i-Mode service as of 1 April, one of the last major European networks to abandon the Japanese import, TelecomTV reports. Germany’s third…

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When someone from NTT DoCoMo, the Japanese operator that developed i-mode and is one of the trailblazers in mobile content, has something to say about mobile data business models, it’s…

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Now that O2 and Telstra have let the cat out of the bag about i-mode, news is leaking out about other markets where the DoCoMo-backed mobile Internet standard has not…

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Updated: This is official now, and O2 has said it would continue to support the service for the next two years but it would not launch any new i-mode handsets…

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Napster is gearing up to launch on Telefonica’s O2 mobile network in Ireland later this month, according to this press release. The service – which features Napster’s catalog of over…

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An obscure, Japanese-language-only press release snippet speaks volumes about DoCoMo’s wider mobile search ambitions. The mobile operator has quietly and cleverly combined FM radio and real-time mobile search in a…

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MTS, the largest operator in Russia, has announced it will cut the number of its direct content partners to 70, claiming the rest can still offer content via those partners…

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Australian incumbent telco Telstra’s new boss Sol Trujillo has never been enthusiastic about i-mode, and it (along with WAP) was only mentioned once in a review of the telco’s new…

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This is very interesting and I wish other operators in the industry could follow such an example (but for sure won’t): according to the latest issue of the “Mobile Media”…

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“We found that eBay’s i-mode site is one of the top attractions on i-mode, letting people track the progress of their bids and make new bids on the move -…

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UK operator O2 has attracted 250,000 i-mode subscribers in the seven months since its launch, which it claims is “the fastest growing i-mode service outside Japan”. To get the service…

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As a sign of the way mobile gaming is going (hopefully) Gameloft’s new 2006 Real Football will allow people to play against other users in the same country as well…

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Dutch operator KPN has launched a new portal, Mobiel Startsite, which will “make i-mode content accessible for non i-mode customers. KPN subscribers or prepaid users with a WAP enable handset,…

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ITN Multimedia has launched a news service on the i-mode site of UK operator O2. The £1.50 per month includes unlimited text and video downloads, and will offer “home, world,…

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The Vodafone-Softbank joint venture deal for data services will challenge NTT Docomo’s i-mode service, said Masayoshi Son, president and CEO of Softbank. NTT Docomo’s i-mode service has about 46 million…

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NEC Australia (and its parent company, NEC) has launched a mobile music service for Australian incumbent Telstra’s i-mode service. So far the service has licensing deals with EMI and Warner,…

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O2 has partnered with InfoSpace to launch an iPub channel on the carriers i-mode service, available “from £3”. It has pub-themed games such as Pub Pool, Pub Fruity and Pub…

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Israeli mobile telco Cellcom is a good example of a problem in the mobile content space—the content delivery platform of the operators are different, and change. In Cellcom’s case it…

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O2 is set to announce it has signed up auction giant eBay to its i-mode mobile internet service, which will allow users to check their auctions on the move, with…

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A couple of Namco execs have answered some questions on Namco’s service in Europe, which runs on the i-mode service. The main benefit of the service is that it gives…

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i-mode Business Strategy has a post up about the beginning of i-mode—it’s a raging success in Japan now, but it wasn’t always guaranteed that NTT DoCoMo would go for it.…

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Control Freaks—an Australian computer and video games TV show—has launched an i-mode subscription service that features text-based content and full motion video. “Control Freaks is a magazine style program which…

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Russian massive multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) Sphere has moved to smartphones and Pocket PCs thanks to Nikita, 1C and Yandex. “The mobile client provides gamers with a broad range…

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An outline of the current mobile video offerings in Australia, along with their pricing...Telstra is charging 2.2c a kilobyte for all data sent to or from i-mode…

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A lot of operators are viewing i-mode as the best chance for mobile data to be a success...a few weeks ago UK’s O2 launched the service. I-mode business Strategy has…

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