CTIA Wire: Leftovers

Some leftover announcements and news from CTIA (James and Staci have tons of more interviews and other reports which they’ll stream out this week)
Cingular eyes new ways to put video on cellphones: Thinking of moving beyond subscription video into downloads or live streaming TV (DVB-H, MediaFlo etc)
PlayPhone has started selling $5 to $20 prepaid cards for buying ring tones, games, wallpaper and music videos. The cards are sold at stores such as Kmart, Game-Stop’s EB Games, Rite Aid drugstores and Sam Goody.
Ki-Bi and others offer similar or variants of this concept. By logging on to a website from either a mobile phone or computer and entering the code number on the card, buyers can use credits to send content to their phones or a friend’s.
Fandango calls for more wireless: Movie ticketing firm Fandango has its third major mobile deal with Ericsson, and differs slightly from those struck last month with Cingular and Sprint Nextel because Ericsson is an aggregator of content for many tier-two carriers. Competitor Movietickets.com also lets users of Web-enabled phones buy tickets using the handset, but Fandango has been more aggressively branding such services and striking partnerships, the story says.
Amp’d unveils TV platform: It will produce its own TV network, announcing a new mobile TV platform that would consist of four streamed TV stations from major broadcasters and a fifth channel that will carry self-produced shows ranging from action sports coverage to its own spoof reality TV shows.
— Jib-Jab, Heavy.com, Turner Sign on VCast: Self-explanatory: these content providers are now on Verizon’s Vcast service..exclusive for Jib-Jab and Heavy.com but not for Turner content.

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