China Mobile has become the world’s first mobile operator to pass the 500 million subscriber mark.

The Chinese carrier yesterday said it had added 5.26 million new customers in August to take its total to 502.94 million. The world’s largest operator by customer numbers, it continues to dominate growth in the mainland market, capturing 65% of all new mobile subscribers for the month. However, growth is sluggish for its TD-SCDMA network, which attracted just 239,000 new customers. It now has 1.33 million customers on the network. China Mobile’s most aggressive competitor is newcomer China Telecom,...

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Mobile VAS not attractively priced in Middle East & Africa

Mobile VAS not attractively priced in Middle East & Africa Top 10 Mobile Applications of 2009 Middle East’s top job site Bayt.com launches mobile version Samsung announces mobile app store. India launch 14th September ? Motorola’s Android phone focuses on social networks Reliance Mobile launches BIGMaps,focuses on driving VAS leadership through innovative offerings. India’s GSM user base grows by 9.3 mn in August reaches 335.4 million as of August-end Telecom operators in the Middle East and Africa find mobile value-added services...

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‘Mobisodes-On-Demand’ to light-up 3G mobiles

MoVi, Mumbai-based made-for-mobile content fountainhead, has teamed up with Dallas-based telecom convergent solutions provider, Corpus, to launch a bouquet of video-on-demand unicast for the broadband 3G mobile user. MoVi plans to launch its Mobisodic journey initially across 7 leading Asian Mobile markets along with Corpus’s expertise in VAS and support solutions while the joint offering will be scaled up globally. “The proposed MoVi-Corpus joint portfolio for the 3G media platform is a premium mix of video-on-demand and value added services,...

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Upcoming Event: MobileTV Middle East, Dubai 15th-16th Nov, 2009

Mobile TV Middle East 15 – 16 November 2009, Jumeirah Beach Hotel, Dubai, UAE http://me.mobiletvseries.com/Mobile TV Middle East will bring together key thought-leaders from across the sector to demonstrate how to capitalise on this opportunity and how to take Mobile TV forward into 2010.Now in its third year, and co-located with the IPTV World Forum Middle East & Africa event, Mobile TV Middle East 2009 will focus on the specific regional challenges and opportunities being faced by Companies working within this fast-paced market. The 2009...

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Nimbuzz launches Android application

Nimbuzz has announced the launch of an Android application for it’s mobile social messaging service. The free app for Android comes after the updated iPhone 3.0 release in mid-July. What does Nimbuzz do?It’s a mobile messaging hub, combining a lot of different services in one application. Nimbuzz mainly focuses on Instant Messaging, geo-presence, and VoIP. Through the Nimbuzz “buddy list”, you can see if your friends are available to talk, what service they are available over, and where they are....

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The new Nokia N900: Computer-grade performance in a handset

The Nokia N900 runs on the Linux-based Maemo software that Nokia has been working on for several years, and marks the third operating system that the company has said it will support—just in the past week. It was only on Monday that Nokia announced the 10-inch “Booklet 3G,” a netbook running Microsoft Windows. The company also says it also remains committed to the Symbian OS for its smartphones, although analysts are starting to wonder if Maemo could eventually replace it.In the N900 press release,...

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Nokia Money, a new mobile financial service enables financial management and payments from a mobile phone

Nokia today introduced Nokia Money, a new mobile financial service offering consumers with mobile device access to basic financial services. For many consumers, this will be the first time they have had any access to such financial services.Nokia Money has been designed to be as simple and convenient as making a voice call or sending an SMS. It will enable consumers to send money to another person just by using the person’s mobile phone number, as well as to pay merchants for goods and services, pay their utility bills, or recharge their prepaid...

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