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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…

Tiscali To Debut Mobile Phone Net In Quad-Play Drive - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Fri 04 Jan 2008 04:12 AM PST

Italian broadband provider Tiscali is planning to roll out a UK mobile phone service in the last three months of 2008, according to Telegraph.co.uk. It’s currently in discussions with the…

ContentNext Media Index Changes: Out With The Old, in With The New; More Mobile - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 02 Jan 2008 10:33 PM PST

We’re marking the new year with some updates to our ContentNext Media Index, an index of 100 U.S.-traded companies in the media, Internet content and related sectors. Two of the…

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,…

Google And Open Networks: MVNO Killers? - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Tue 18 Dec 2007 03:21 AM PST

Will Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and its push for open networks put more pressure on the struggling MVNO sector? Red Herring has a rather muddled story on how MVNO’s will fare…

XE Mobile MVNO To Shut Down - 2 Comments
Posted By Carlo Longino - Thu 13 Dec 2007 12:11 PM PST

Another MVNO bites the dust: XE Mobile, a virtual operator that targeted college students with a pay-as-you-go service, says it’s shutting down on December 31, with service cut off and…

Helio Launches Full-Featured YouTube App - 0 Comments
Posted By Carlo Longino - Wed 12 Dec 2007 04:53 AM PST

Helio, the MVNO joint venture of SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM) and Earthlink, (NSDQ: ELNK) is launching a new YouTube application for users of its Ocean handset. The operator already offered…

US Mobile Data Services Market Luring Asian Wireless Firms - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Mon 10 Dec 2007 11:57 AM PST

Just as Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is gunning for the US market, so too are Asian wireless firms. The lure: the potential that these players see in the country’s mobile internet…

Microsoft Sells Ads On US MSN Mobile; Virgin Mobile UK Plans More Ads In 2008 - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Mon 10 Dec 2007 04:54 AM PST

Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has begun serving ads on its US MSN Mobile page, moving into the mobile advertising business in the USA—it already sells mobile ads in Belgium, France, Spain,…

Industry Moves: Bill Stone Joins Handango As CEO - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 28 Nov 2007 10:05 AM PST

Bill Stone, till recently the president of the shuttered MVNO service Amp’d, has joined mobile software and content retailer Handango as the new CEO. Founder Randy Eisenman will remain “actively…

Class Action Suit Against Virgin Mobile USA For IPO - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 28 Nov 2007 03:46 AM PST

Kahn Gauthier Swick has filed a class action lawsuit against Virgin Mobile (NYSE: VM) USA on behalf of shareholders, apparently because the stock has fallen 55 percent from its peak…

Italian Post Office Seeks 2 Million MVNO Subscribers In 3 Years - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 27 Nov 2007 06:44 PM PST

Massimo Sarmi, the CEO of the Italian Post Office (Poste Italiane) said that the company is aiming to have 2 million mobile phone subscribers and 500 million euros in revenue…

Virgin Has Plans To Enter India - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 20 Nov 2007 04:00 AM PST

Virgin Group chairman Richard Branson has announced that Virgin will open a mobile service in India. “We have a (telecoms) partner now, and I will reveal all in two months’…

Round Up: Kajeet’s SMS Content; Active Idle Screens; Indian Satellite Mobile TV - 3 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Sun 18 Nov 2007 05:51 PM PST

-- Kid-focused MVNO kajeet has launched Feeds, an SMS content service sending messages with trivia and jokes and so on—a lot of them seem to be educational, such as Word…

Earnings: Virgin Mobile USA Rev Up 25 Percent, Data Up 30 Percent - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 15 Nov 2007 02:47 PM PST

Virgin Mobile (NYSE: VM) USA has released its first earnings since its IPO in October.Revenue for Q3 increased 25 percent year-on-year to $301.4 million, and adjusted EBITDA was $17 million,…

EU Telecom Plan Reaction: Market Leaders Critical, Upstarts Hopeful - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Thu 15 Nov 2007 03:58 AM PST

This week’s European Commission proposal to overhaul the telecoms industry in order to boost broadband and wireless services competition has been met by a chorus of criticism. Europe’s dominant operators,…

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…

SK Telecom Allocates $70 Million To Helio, Gains Control - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Fri 09 Nov 2007 03:04 PM PST

SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM) has allocated $70 million of the $100 million it promised Helio back in July, and since Earthlink (NSDQ: ELNK) seems to have yet to allocate its…

Round Up: Tesco; AFP; HTC Sued - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 08 Nov 2007 07:46 PM PST

-- Tesco Mobile is planning to roll out banner advertising across its mobile WAP portal in November. The WAP page is the default WAP destination for the Tesco MVNO, and…

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)…

Earthlink CEO Has No Plans To Sell Off Helio Stake; Remains Hopeful - 9 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 25 Oct 2007 04:53 PM PST

We reported on Earthlink’s Q3 earnings announcement earlier today. Now, from the conference call, Earthlink (NSDQ: ELNK) CEO Rolla Huff on his continued hopes on Helio: “While we all know…

Virgin Mobile Australia Signs On For Moko Community - 1 Comment
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 25 Oct 2007 06:29 AM PST

Loop Mobile has signed a second Australian carrier for its mobile social service Moko. It now runs on Virgin Mobile (NYSE: VM) Australia, an MVNO run by carrier Optus, as…

Earnings: Earthlink Widens Q3 Loss; Helio Losses At $92.3 Million - 0 Comments
Posted By Ingrid Lunden - Thu 25 Oct 2007 05:09 AM PST

Earthlink (NSDQ: ELNK) today posted a wider-than-expected loss of $79.4 million for Q307, including a $41.9 million write-down related to its Helio MVNO and a $54.8 million restructuring charge. While…

Carphone Warehouse Launches Postpaid MVNO - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 24 Oct 2007 05:23 AM PST

UK’s Carphone Warehouse has launched a second MVNO, reselling Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) minutes under the TalkMobile brand. TalkMobile is a postpaid offering whereas its other MVNO Fresh is prepaid. The…

Virgin Mobile USA Launches Wallpaper/Ringtone Creation And Sale Network - 1 Comment
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 24 Oct 2007 03:26 AM PST

Virgin Mobile USA has launched Studio V, a mobile content community which lets people create and share graphics and ringtones—graphics from photos and designs and ringtones using a web-based ringtone…