News analysis
SpinVox targets 24 operators by end of year
Speech to text messaging system boosting revenues, co-founder claims
SpinVox co-founder Daniel Doulton has told Mobile Europe that he expects the company to have over 20 carrier customers by the end of this year for its speech to text messaging services.
SpinVox, a provider of services that range from delivering voicemail messages as text to allowing bloggers to post directly to their site by speaking into any phone, currently has 14 carrier
Vendors shake hands on LTE intellectual property rights
LTE handset IPR will be single digit percentage of the sales price
A group of network infrastructure and device manufacturers have committed to a mutual agreement to sort out the way intellectual property rights for LTE and SAE are costed. The companies say the initiative is intended to stimulate early adoption of mobile broadband technology across the communications and consumer electronic industries. But there's no doubt the industry, and just as importantly its operator
Tesco launches mobile ads on portal
Trial results foster advertising optimism
Tesco Mobile, the UK MVNO hosted by O2, has said that trial mobile advertising campaigns on its WAP portal generated click through rates to mini campaign WAP sites of between three and seven per cent.
These results have been enough to convince Tesco Mobile to commercially launch the delivery of on-portal advertising campaigns to customers. Tesco Mobile has published a detailed media pack, available through mobile advertising
Operators failing to exploit mobile video market
UGC offers untapped opportunity
vTap from Veveo is a service that searches and indexes 115,000 web sites that carry large amounts of mobile video – totalling about 150 million video clips. It then encodes those videos on the fly to users who request them from their mobile device, using their vTap application. Its deployment could help operators unlock latent demand for access to user generated videos on the web, according to Guru Pai, VP of Marketing
Self optimising networks coming closer
Reduce churn and opex?
Networks that could automatically self-optimise according to cell traffic conditions and type could save operators a great deal of opex, as well as reduce churn by making mobile networks more efficient and delivering a better user experience – according to Shirin Dehghan, ceo of network optimization company Arieso.
In late February 2008, Dehghan and her management team secured a $10 million Series B investment led by Oxford Capital
Aepona appoints new ceo
Web services company Aepona has appointed a new ceo. The new top man is Al Snyder, who has been a non-executive director of the company since May 2006. He succeeds Brian Caulfield, who has been serving as interim
UIQ upgrades customisation and operator options
Releases UIQ 3.3
UIQ Technology today announced the availability of UIQ 3.3. The latest release of the software is intended to offer mobile phone manufacturers more opportunities to differentiate and diversify their product portfolios, offering operator services and extending UIQ into the mass market.