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Mobile Content Bits: iPhone 3G Demand, Iliad Buys Alice, Yahoo Serves 3 UK - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 07 Jul 2008 05:07 AM PST

-- iPhone Demand In UK Overwhelms O2 Site: It’s four days before Apple’s iPhone goes on sale in the UK, and it looks like mobile operator O2, may not be…

Mobile Content Bits: 3 Down-Plays Content, Orange Retail Boss, O2 Caps Speed - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 11 Apr 2008 01:34 AM PST

Latest mobile headlines from our sister site mocoNews.net. Click for more detail… -- 3UK To Downplay Emphasis On Content: Analyst Ovum emergees from an interview with 3UK CEO Kevin Russell…

UK Operators To Develop Common Standards For Measuring Mobile Ads - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Mon 11 Feb 2008 05:54 AM PST

The UK’s five largest operators--Vodafone (NYSE: VOD), Orange, O2, T-Mobile and 3—are announcing today their intention to work together to develop common measurement standards for mobile advertising. The FT reports…

3 UK Apologises, Investigates After Refurb Handset Porn Cock-Up - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 04 Feb 2008 10:48 AM PST

3 UK has apologised to a customer to whom it had sent a phone containing pornographic self-portraits thought to be of its previous owner. CNET (NSDQ: CNET) UK blogger Rory…

Three Rules Out Home Broadband, Owes £6 Billion To Hutchison: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 26 Nov 2007 02:43 AM PST

Telegraph.co.uk has checked over mobile network 3 in Companies House and it isn’t pretty: “(UK) losses during 2005 were £1.4 billion. These went down to £667 million last year. Hutchison…

Mobile Content Bits: Trinity Mirror Regional, Three, Nokia, Orange Links - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Tue 20 Nov 2007 07:20 AM PST

- Trinity Mirror: The newspaper group will launch a multi-platform mobile service to eventually deliver regional news that could be tailored to a user’s post code (via Media Week). Recently…

Deutsche Telekom Amongst Tiscali Contenders; Offloads Media Division; Closes In On Three: Reports - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 07 Nov 2007 03:56 AM PST

Could Tiscali be bought? The broadband, IPTV and telephony provider is “being courted by about 10 potential buyers, four of which have made ‘concrete’ moves”, reports newspaper MF in its…

Skype And 3 launch Mobile Phone Service; In UK and Eight Other Countries - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 29 Oct 2007 05:37 AM PST

As had been rumored for a while, Skype and 3G service operator 3 have launched a mobile handset that allows Skype users to make free Internet calls.The new 3 Skypephone…

Mobile Content Bits: 3 UK Grows Music Catalogue, Player X For O2 Portal - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 19 Sep 2007 03:00 AM PST

-- 3 UK: Mobile network 3 has expanded the roster of music available via its 3MusicStore through a distribution deal with The Orchard, NMA reports. The Orchard is a distributor…

Hutchison May Sell Up In Italy; Fuels Talk Of Exit From UK Market - 0 Comments
Posted By Ingrid Lunden - Thu 13 Sep 2007 03:49 AM PST

From our sister site MocoNews: A memorandum sent out by Hutchison Whampoa soliciting interest for its 3 Italia unit could mean a sale of the UK assets will also be…

3 Italia Cites 719,000 DVB-H Users - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 23 Aug 2007 05:07 PM PST

3 Italia had 719,000 people using its DVB-H service by August 22, which is about 9.4 percent of its 7.68 million customer base reports Dow Jones in Italian. There’s no…

Industry Moves UK: Virgin Media Names Ex-3 Director Oxby As MD - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 02 Aug 2007 01:32 PM PST

U.K. telco, broadband and TV operator Virgin Media has hired former 3 marketing director Graeme Oxby as its new MD. Oxby was marketing director at the 3G network until he…

Industry Moves UK: Guardian; 3UK; Teachers TV - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 19 Jun 2007 07:44 AM PST

- Guardian: Deputy commercial director Adam Freeman has been promoted to Guardian News & Media’s (GNM) commercial director position, replacing Stuart Taylor. Freeman has been with GNM since 1992, when…

3UK Expands Music Video Service, With Dual Download - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Mon 18 Jun 2007 06:27 AM PST

Something I missed while I was at the conference last week: 3UK has signed a deal with Groove Mobile to sell music videos via a dual-download service. “The video downloads…

3 Italia Hits 600,000 DVB-H Users - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 07 Jun 2007 02:13 AM PST

One thing in this UnStrung that caught my eye was the statistic that 3 Italia now has more than 600,000 DVB-H customers. In March the figure given was 250,000. “The…

3 Italia Launches X-Series, New Portal - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Sun 03 Jun 2007 04:02 AM PST

3 Italia has launched the X-Series data package that the 3 group has launched in the UK and Australia. The service will cost 9 euros (US$12) a month or 3…

3UK Ups Price Of Music - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Fri 04 May 2007 07:28 AM PST

3UK has increased the cost of the full-track downloads sold over its network, from 99p to 1.29 pounds (US$2.57). It’s not often you see an operator raising the price of…

Industry Moves: 3 in U.K. Names New CEO - 0 Comments
Posted By Peggy Anne Salz - Thu 03 May 2007 06:33 AM PST

Mobile operator and media company 3 in the U.K. has announced that Kevin Russell, 40, will take over as CEO of 3 UK, Reuters reports. (The appointment comes as little…

3 Launches Free Google Mobile Search In Ireland, Google Equipped Phone Debuts In Italy - 0 Comments
Posted By Peggy Anne Salz - Tue 01 May 2007 02:08 AM PST

Mobile operator and media company 3 in Ireland has launched free Google mobile search on its 3G handsets, Ireland.com reports. The service is part of a wider campaign by 3,…

3UK’s Ad-Supported Mobile TV Service - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Sat 21 Apr 2007 10:40 PM PST

3UK’s mobile TV service has received a mixed review from Telecom TV—they’re happy with the technology but not the content. They also describe the Hutchison company’s move to add an…

ITN UK Launching Ad-Supported Mobile Video Service on 3 - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 15 Apr 2007 08:44 PM PST

ITN, the UK broadcaster which recently criticized BBC’s mobile TV plans, is launching its own ad-supported mobile TV service on UK operator 3, the first major free mobile TV service…

People Will Pay For Mobile TV—3UK - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 29 Mar 2007 07:27 PM PST

3UK’s marketing director Graeme Oxby has told the Broadcast Mobile TV Congress in London that customers will pay for mobile content, and listed some stats from their company as an…

Earnings: Hutchison 2006 Profit Grows 40 Percent On Lower 3G Losses - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Fri 23 Mar 2007 07:07 AM PST

Hutchison Whampoa posted a net profit of HK$20.03 billion (US$2.56 billion) for 2006, up from HK$14.34 billion (US$1.8 billion) in 2005, reports Telecom Asia, an increase of 40 percent. This…

3 Italia Reveals Mobile TV Stats, Cuts Costs By Producing In-House - 0 Comments
Posted By Peggy Anne Salz - Fri 09 Mar 2007 09:56 AM PST

EETimes reports on the views and stats exchanged at the DVB World conference today in Dublin. Italian mobile operator 3 Italia (3 in Italy) reported more than 250,000 subscribers (about…

3 UK Launches On-Portal Ad-Funded Content Offer - 0 Comments
Posted By Peggy Anne Salz - Wed 07 Mar 2007 05:29 AM PST

Mobile operator 3 in the U.K. is set to launch an ad-funded video content service, giving users who visit its Planet 3 portal free video clips, including news, comedy, gossip,…