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Juha Christensen Says Sonopia Is Not Shutting Down, But Is Waiting For Better Times For MVNOs - 4 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 10 Apr 2008 03:03 PM PST

Reports that Sonopia was shutting down spread like wildfire yesterday, but its founder Juha Christensen, said today it’s not true. The company is still alive, but drastically scaling back its…

Visits From Mobile Phone Users Outpace PC Users At ESPN.com - 1 Comment
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Mon 07 Jan 2008 10:50 AM PST

Is ESPN’s (NYSE: DIS) new mobile strategy paying off? For three days, ESPN.com has had more visits to its NFL content through its mobile phone web site than it did…

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,…

CTIA Audio Interview: John Zehr, SVP-Digital Media Production, ESPN - 1 Comment
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 30 Oct 2007 07:24 AM PST

I caught up for a few minutes at CTIA with John Zehr, the ESPN SVP of digital media production. We talked about ESPN’s multi-year exclusive commitment to Verizon (NYSE: VZ)…

ESPN PodCenter Through IPhone—Exclusive Content Planned - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Mon 13 Aug 2007 10:49 PM PST

ESPN has announced that its PodCenter service will be available on the iPhone from now, and “exclusive content for iPhone users is also in the works”—although what that content will…

ESPN To Employees: You Can’t Get Verizon Phones - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 18 Jul 2007 05:55 PM PST

This is very funny, and true. ESPN, which closed down its MVNO and then relaunched again recently as a content app on Verizon and branded ESPN MVP, now says in…

Big Plans For ESPN On Mobile - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Mon 18 Jun 2007 02:39 AM PST

The New York Times has a comprehensive piece on mobile video/TV, although most of the info comes from ESPN (it also talks about CBS, Hearst, MediaFLO). John Zehr, senior vice…

ESPN MVP Launches App on Verizon Wireless; Mirroring The MobileESPN Apps - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 15 May 2007 09:27 PM PST

This was announced in February, and is launching now: Verizon Wireless is launching ESPN MVP on its service, in a multi-year exclusive deal....it will have news, scores and more; bunch…

Mobile ESPN Plans News In Tamil And Bengali; Content Providers Beefing Up Operations - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 11 Apr 2007 12:20 AM PST

Sricharan Iyengar, VP (Sales and Marketing) for ESPN has told the Hindu that ESPN is working on offering sports news in Tamil and Bengali, as a part of its Mobile…

CTIA: ESPN Mobile TV Lineup, Two Made-For-Mobile Shows - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 28 Mar 2007 05:15 AM PST

ESPN has announced the line-up for its new channel, ESPN Mobile TV, which will show on MediaFLO’s service, currently on Verizon’s V cast service. There’s two new shows: --ESPN ReSet:…

Interview: Salil Mehta, EVP, ESPN Enterprises - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 08 Feb 2007 09:21 PM PST

It’s a cliche, to be sure, but looking at Mobile ESPN, it’s hard not to think what a difference a year makes. This time last year, Mobile ESPN was coming…

MobileESPN To Relaunch As a Content App Exclusively With Verizon; Dumps Sprint; MediaFlo Channel Too - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 07 Feb 2007 10:10 PM PST

The day it was announced that former head honcho Manish Jha left to join Vantrix as CEO, comes the news, via AP, that MobileESPN is relaunching, not as an MVNO…

Manish Jha Leaves ESPN Mobile; Joins Vantrix As CEO - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 07 Feb 2007 09:56 PM PST

Manish Jha, the high-profile head of the MobileESPN MVNO forays from Disney, as well as later the SVP of ESPN Mobile (the publishing arm) after that, has left the company,…

ESPN’s Mobile Licensing Deals Soon - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 13 Dec 2006 06:56 PM PST

ESPN, still reeling from the announced closure of MobileESPN MVNO, is close to announcing some distribution/licensing deals on its content and applications, George Bodenheimer, president of ESPN and ABC Sports…

The Mobile ESPN Patent - 2 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 09 Nov 2006 03:17 PM PST

MacNN is reporting that Disney has filed a patent covering the delivery of ESPN content to mobile phones and devices, which he uses to argue for a possible ESPN-branded iPod,…

Did Wall Street Kill Mobile ESPN? - 2 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 01 Nov 2006 09:57 PM PST

This article puts forth the opinion that it was Wall Street’s short term focus on quarterly revenue that drove Disney to kill Mobile ESPN shortly after it launched. “This is…

MVNOs Need To Play The Game Within Its Current Boundaries - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Mon 23 Oct 2006 05:24 PM PST

Chris Ambrosio, director of Wireless Device Strategies Service at Strategy Analytics has used the collapse of Mobile ESPN to illustrate what he thinks MVNOs need to do in order to…

Mipcom: ESPN Digital Doing Well - Just Skip The Sections About Profit, Pesky MVNO - 0 Comments
Posted By Jemima Kiss - Mon 16 Oct 2006 11:11 PM PST

ESPN is “very bullish” about its new media operations, said ESPN president George Bodenheimer, despite refusing to admit that ESPN’s new media services don’t actually make any money. - Bodenheimer…

MVNOs Stay Optimistic - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Mon 16 Oct 2006 06:11 PM PST

The discussion over whether MVNOs are a viable business model continues, with this article citing most MVNOs as still being upbeat about their business after the premature crash and burn…

Adderton: “The Industry Is Not Broken” - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 05 Oct 2006 03:11 PM PST

Unsurprisingly Peter Adderton, CEO of Amp’d Mobile, is still upbeat about the potential of MVNOs, and Amp’d. He said Mobile ESPN was just Disney looking for something to do with…

Manish Jha On The New Mobile ESPN - 1 Comment
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 05 Oct 2006 06:10 AM PST

Manish Jha, Mobile ESPN SVP and GM, has given an interview on the closure of the ESPN MVNO, and said a lot of things that other people have been saying…

Industry Moves: MobileESPN VP Lands At Soapbox Mobile As CEO - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 04 Oct 2006 11:11 AM PST

You will probably see a lot of this happening over the next couple of months: MobileESPN executives landing at other mobile companies, as the MVNO winds down. Soapbox Mobile, a…

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…

Mobile ESPN: The Schadenfreude - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 28 Sep 2006 03:10 PM PST

Now that Mobile ESPN is closing, as reported first, everybody’s piling on with all kinds of “we told you so”, and none of them are far off the mark. --…

It’s Official: Mobile ESPN To Cease MVNO Ops Dec. 31; Will Seek Licensing - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 28 Sep 2006 08:10 AM PST

The announcement we told you last night was on the way just came out â€¦ Mobile ESPN will cease operations as an MVNO Dec. 31 and will refund the purchase…