As reported by Textually, the Philadelphia Inquirer carries an article on why mobile spamming won’t be as big as email spamming.
According to John Summers, global director for managed security at Blue Bell-based Unisys Corp:
U.S. cell-phone companies have learned from the mistakes of carriers in other countries and have installed technology to prevent spam and viruses [...]
Archive | June, 2004
Mobile Spam
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Virgin Mobile to Float
According to the BBC Virgin Mobile is to float next month “subject to market conditions”.
Hmmm. No wonder Sir Richard was so scathing about the MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operators) about to launch in the UK we reported yesterday here.
With incumbents showing a c. 20% drop in ARPU in places where MVNO’s have launched, now would [...]
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Watch out – the MVNO’s are coming
New Media Age reports that Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNO’s) are about to launch following huge success in Northern Europe. Due to the significantly lower cost base, prices have plummeted in a matter of months.
In Denmark the price of a mobile minute has dropped from E0.17 to E0.09 (11p-6p) in only six months, and an [...]
Buy a handset manufacturer?
There’s an interesting article over at The Feature on SK Telecom’s (a South Korean operator) plans to produce own label handsets, by buying some of the players in the market.
It’s all about who “owns the customer” – the handset guys or the operators. It’s a bit of a redundant argument really, because at best, any [...]
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B2B Treasure
Nice article from Anuj Khanna from Netsize ( an International mobile services company) in New Media Age.
While it’s one of those blatant “yes, I’m soliciting business” pieces, he makes some very valid points. His basic argument is that companies tend to focus on the sexy “entertainment” applications and services and ignore “there’s gold in them [...]
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WAP Payments
New Media Zero reports that in the UK
Media owners and content providers will soon be able to benefit from the one-click WAP billing mechanisms that have proved so successful on operator portals.
Orange and Vodafone lead the way, with O2 and T-Mobile following. As ever
It never ceases to amaze me how slow “Mobile Time” [...]
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Coming to a phone near you
Textually reports an article in United Press International
It’s a little over the top at the moment, but I think there’s more than a grain of truth in the scenario.
A hacker sits on a bench at Grand Central Station in New York City and, with his mobile phone and a Wireless Fidelity connection, deviously places a [...]
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Kodak Fights Back
It must be really scary to be in an industry which is in danger of being wiped out. I remember back in the 80’s school skiing trips in the UK were a niche industry, but a large and profitable business, none the less.
Then the Government introduced the National Curriculum and skiing wasn’t on the curriculum. [...]
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Mobile Etiqette 2
The New York Times (registration needed) reports another interesting story about how people use mobile phones.
Consider the case of Lilia Belkova, a passenger earlier this month on a US Airways flight from Miami to Philadelphia. She refused repeated requests by flight attendants to turn off her cellphone so the plane could take off. Hanging up [...]
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MMS Phones now 25% Share
DM Europe reports via Textually that in the UK, MMS enabled phones now account for 25% of the user base.
So why are hardly anyone using the damn things?
Answers here!
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