Qualcomm and Teleepoch
Enter Into a 3G CDMA Subscriber Unit License Agreement, October
6, 2007
MTN chooses Cambridge Broadband
Networks for multi-service wireless network in Rwanda, October 6,
2007
Brazilian government to
publish 3G bidding rules soon, October 6, 2007
KTF 3G service suffers
from technical problems, October 6, 2007
Argentina’s Personal
lunches 3G service in Rosario, October 6, 2007
Russia has it's first 3G
network, October 6, 2007
AT&T could drop Alcatel-Lucent
as 3G mobile network supplier, October 6, 2007
Enea Extends License Agreement
with ZTE for 3G Handsets, October 2, 2007
LG to unveil premium handsets
in Brazil, October 2, 2007
KTF 3G subscribers doubled
in less than 3 months, October 2, 2007
3G policy in India will
be non-uniform, October 2, 2007
- previous news
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Sex won't sex on mobile - report
April 18, 2003
Strategy Analytics released "Wireless Porn Opportunity Limited to $1
Billion in 2008." This report from the Strategy Analytics Wireless Internet
Applications (WIA) Service, notes that adult community services, such
as those recently announced by AT&T Wireless and Match.com, will ramp
up quickly, boosted by the growth of the camera and videophone markets.
Although skeptical of the revenue potential that streamed or downloaded
adult services offers to wireless clients, the report further recommends
that carriers must move swiftly to capitalize on their core messaging
strengths by bundling branded dating applications into their service portfolios.
Senior Analyst Philip Taylor notes, "We believe the advantages of the
mobile phone as a personal and discrete device for viewing pornography
are overstated. The value of the mobile channel to the porn industry will
be greater as a CRM-tool than as a distribution medium."
Speculation as to the potential offered by wireless adult services is
often based on the premise that fixed Internet pornography providers are
raking it in. Strategy Analytics disputes the often cited figure for global
adult entertainment revenues of US$20B, and believes this figure is actually
closer to the $4 billion mark, of which only around $500 million will
be generated on-line.
David Kerr, Vice President of the Strategy Analytics Global Wireless
Practice, adds, "This is less than half of the value of the ringtones
market in Western Europe in 2002. We believe that, with so much pornography
available for free on the fixed Internet, demand for adult material will
continue to be largely met by fixed Internet services." Kerr further states,
"Carriers must not allow themselves to get sidetracked, and must focus
on implementing applications infrastructure platforms and business models
that will open up mobile to media and entertainment industries, including
adult entertainment, as swiftly as possible."
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3G Motorola A920
