Tag Archives: MMS

Blyk is dead. Long live Blyk!

An interesting piece of news came up in the FT today. Apparently Blyk has changed tack and done a deal with Voda in Holland, possibly admitting that it is coming to the end of the MVNO road. Much is made of how, using an existing operator’s infrastructure, it would be possible to scale the advertising [...]

1,492,400,769 text messages sent a week in the UK

The Mobile Data Association have just released their latest figures and whooooaaahhh we’re sending an awful lot of text messages. Nearly 1.5 billion between January and May in the UK. It’s also encouraging to see that more than 10 million pictures and video messaging were sent per week. Key findings Text Messaging – Number of [...]

Bonjour Cannes

Well, I’m now at the Global Messaging Congress in Cannes which runs from 8th – 9th May. I know, I know, someone had to do it … Anyway, you’ll find me on the panel discussion at 16.55 at the end of Day One, Track B. I’m joining Saul Castro Escobedo (Value Added Service Direcotr, Iusacell), [...]

The year of mobile advertising. Or not?

So will 2008 be the year of mobile advertising and marketing or not? In an interesting and well-judged opinion piece on Mobile Marketing Magazine, Nick Fuller discusses this most pertinent of subjects. He comments that at the heart of this is the technology divide between the tech enthusiasts and the rest of us – who [...]

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