Holiday Catchup Wire: Redford Mobile; Texting Costs; Yahoo-3UK; Verizon Music

Back after holidays, and some links that cropped up during the last week:

MySpace ties up with Russia MTS for mobile network: MySpace has entered into a partnership agreement with Russia’s largest carrier, MTS, to launch a social platform for mobile internet users..MySpace will create an exclusive WAP-portal for subscribers of MTS Russia, who currently number more than 60 million.

Redford’s mobile plans continue: Even though Robert Redford and partners have sold the Sundance Channel to Cablevision (NYSE: CVC), he was still planning a series of short films for mobile phones under the Sundance Channel moniker; he will probably direct them and did not rule out appearing in them as well.

The rising cost of texting: The new wave of price hikes comes just one year after all the major carriers raised individual text messaging rates from 10 cents a message to 15 cents per message. The reason that carriers are charging so much for text messages is because they can. Even at 15 cents and 20 cents a pop, people are willing to pay for it. The carriers are also trying to get consumers to sign up for text messaging packages and unlimited plans that vary in price from $5 a month extra for 200 messages to $20 a month extra for unlimited texting on AT&T’s (NYSE: T) network, for example.

Yahoo to run 3 UK’s mobile ads: Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has inked a deal to exclusively sell banners and sponsored link inventory on 3 UK’s content portal, with the first ads going live later this month.

Making Music With Verizon Wireless: John Harrobin, the senior vice president for Verizon

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