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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…

iPhone Interest Quadruples For O2 UK, 30 Million Global Sales Forecast - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 17 Jun 2008 12:40 AM PST

Maybe Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) will meet that 10 million iPhones target after all. O2, the exclusive UK carrier, says more than 130,000 people have used its online form to pre-register…

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…

O2 Caps 3G Speeds At 128 Kbps, Unless Requested Not To - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 09 Apr 2008 02:55 PM PST

UK operator O2 has admitted limiting the speed of most of its customers’ 3G connections to 128 kbps, instead of the 384 kbps the technology is capable of, reports The…

Germany’s E-Plus Phasing Out i-Mode - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Wed 26 Mar 2008 11:39 AM PST

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…

Mobile Content Bits: Napster; Dennis Publishing’s Monkey; Mobile TV Spectrum - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Fri 14 Mar 2008 04:14 AM PST

Mobile content news from our sister site mocoNews.net: — Napster (NSDQ: NAPS) Launches on O2: Napster, very slowly building up its mobile operator clients, has signed on UK and European…

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…

O2 Launches New Mobile Advertising Service - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Mon 11 Feb 2008 05:47 AM PST

O2 UK has launched a new mobile advertising service, following the conclusion of its “successful” trial involving 500,000 customers in 2007. The new service will appear on the operator’s portal…

3 UK And O2 Pair Up To Launch UGC Mobile Video Community EyeVibe - 1 Comment
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Mon 04 Feb 2008 06:56 AM PST

O2 and 3 UK are combining their user generated video services--O2’s LookAtMe! and 3UK’s SeeMeTV--to launch EyeVibe, to create what they claim is UK’s largest open access mobile video community.…

Mobile Content Bits: DRM-Free Orange; O2 Cuts iPhone Tariffs; Ofcom Looks At Mobile Data - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Wed 30 Jan 2008 06:29 AM PST

Mobile-related headlines from our side of the pond, from our sister site mocoNews.net… - @ Midem: Orange Plans DRM-Free Music Rentals, Still Talking To Nokia: Orange has promised to drop…

Another Report on iPhone’s UK Sales: Slightly Short of Projections - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 18 Jan 2008 06:52 PM PST

We mentioned some anecdotal evidence of slow sales of Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iPhones in UK early this month...now some more evidence in this story from FT: O2 said shortly before…

Mobile Content Bits: ITV Mobicom, Yahoo/T-Mob Ads, Auction Criticised, Three Wallpapers - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 17 Jan 2008 07:27 AM PST

- ITV Launching Made For Mobile TV Series “The Gym”: ITV (LSE: ITV) premieres its second made-for-mobile (and internet) TV show on Monday. The “mobicom” The Gym, is a comedy…

El Twitter In Dark On Telefonica’s Plan For Spanish Service - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Thu 10 Jan 2008 06:13 AM PST

Microblog platform Twitter says it knows nothing about plans Telefonica’s Terra Networks has to launch a Spanish version of the service. “Terra Twitter” appeared Tuesday at terra.es/twitter/, inviting registrations from…

Industry Moves: O2 New Music Head, ITV Worldwide MD - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Wed 09 Jan 2008 09:50 AM PST

- O2: O2 UK has hired Matt Ward as its new head of music. Ward replaces former head of music Matt Cockett, who quit after five years in the post…

O2 Planning Launch IPTV Service In UK - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 16 Dec 2007 07:56 PM PST

O2, after what is considered a successful rollout of its IPTV service in Czech Republic, is planning to bring it to UK. O2, owned by Telefonica, (NYSE: TEF) has been…

Mobile Content Bits: O2 Vouchers, iPhone Sales, Virgin Ads, Orange MMS Growth - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 10 Dec 2007 08:34 AM PST

Mobile-related headlines from our side of the pond, from our sister site mocoNews.net… - O2 Launches Mobile Voucher Service For Newspapers: O2 has started a mobile voucher service for newspapers.…

Mobile Content Bits: O2 Promotes Key, EU Advocates DVB-H And Open Spectrum - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 30 Nov 2007 07:22 AM PST

Some interesting headlines doing the rounds over on our sister site mocoNews.net… - Industry Moves: Telefonica Promotes O2 UK CEO Key To Europe-Wide Post: O2 UK CEO Matthew Key has…

Vodafone, Telefonica Take Stakes In Mobile Ad Firm Amobee - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 28 Nov 2007 06:46 AM PST

SF-based mobile advertising firm Amobee has taken strategic minority investments from operators Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) and Telefonica. These investments come after an initial VC round of $5 million from Accel…

O2 Trials Mobile Payments In London - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 28 Nov 2007 04:52 AM PST

O2 today launched a trial of 500 people of its O2 Wallet service, involving Near Field Communications (NFC) technology on Nokia (NYSE: NOK) 6131 handsets. It’s a comprehensive trial of…

Updated: iPhone First Weekend Sales: T-Mob Shifts 10,000, UK ‘Tens Of Thousands’ - 2 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 12 Nov 2007 07:23 AM PST

Updated: O2 told us “we never give out individual handset statistics” but CEO Peter Erskine said in a conference call: “It’s been the fastest selling device we have ever seen.…

@ MobileYouth: O2’s iPhone Too Expensive For Younger Hipsters? - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 09 Nov 2007 09:20 AM PST

At the end of a day in which the mobileYouth Workout in Piccadilly, London, only danced around the key issues (the specifics of ”youth” mobile consumption were nullified by a…

iPhone Hits Europe: Hundreds Queue, 10 Percent Want It, Fewer Will Get It - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Fri 09 Nov 2007 05:41 AM PST

Today’s the day the iPhone hits Europe. Analysts have slammed the phone, saying the “toy” might be okay for the US but isn’t as good as other phones already available…

iPhone Friday: Germans First In Europe To Pick Up The Phone - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 06 Nov 2007 01:26 AM PST

Germans will get bragging rights to owning the iPhone before UK customers this Friday. The Deutsche Telekom (NYSE: DT) store at Schildergasse in Cologne will open at 12.01am CET (1.01am…

Content Bits: Joost/Meebo Chat, O2 Czech IPTV, Newspapers RSS - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 06 Nov 2007 01:13 AM PST

- Joost: The P2P PC TV platform has done a deal with web-based IM chat service Meebo to offer its instant messaging facilities through the application. London-based Joost had run…

O2 Won iPhone On Lightbulb Detail, Expects Three Quarters Of Customers From Rival Networks - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 05 Nov 2007 02:11 AM PST

It’s UK iPhone week, and Matthew Key, CEO of O2, the network that has the handset exclusively, has given an interview to Telegraph.co.uk on how the carrier secured the deal.…