3GSM Wire: Day 3

Mobiles Look To Entertain You: Let operators entertain you…”In some respects they have no choice but to pursue this course as their strategy for making money out of third-generation networks demands that users download far more data than they do today.”
There Is Real Demand For Mobile TV: “Most surprising of all is that the fact that across the board in the UK the amount of people downloading video clips of some kind – technically known as rich media – rose by ninefold in one month. “That’s way beyond anything you could possible attribute to early adopters,” Goode revealed.”
Motorola CEO Fights Back, To Unveil Phones Later: Motorola CEO Ed Zander said he is sick of other companies copying Moto’s designs and from now on the company “would announce products as it shipped them”. He denied this is “taking a cue from Apple”…
China Mobile Sparks 3GSM Talk: The only thing that has knocked Mobile TV out of the 3GSM zeitgeist is China.
Microsoft Releases Its Annual Mobile Phone Market Excuse: “Microsoft itself accepts that it’s not very good, whistles bravely and talks about those nice big numbers of desktop users and leverage.”
Mobile Content – It’s Not Just Porn You Know: El Reg talks to content providers at 3GSM about what consumers are actually buying…
ARM Releases OMA-Compliant DRM
US Tops Download Charts: “In the last quarter of 2005 9.7 per cent of US mobile subscribers downloaded a ringtone compared to 7.1 per cent of Brits and 7 per cent of Germans.” –M:Metrics

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