Sunday, February 11, 2007

Mobile Industry: Content Is Key

Content is key for mobile industry
By Maija Palmer, IT Correspondent, February 12 2007 00:43, The Financial Times

Leaders of telecoms, media and technology companies are gathered this week in Barcelona for the mobile industry’s biggest event of the year.
Among the 60,000 visitors and 1,300 exhibitors at the 3GSM World Congress will be heavyweight keynote speakers such as Vodafone’s Arun Sarin and Carl-Eric Svanberg of Ericsson.

But the speakers will not just come from the telecommunications sector. There will also be luminaries from the entertainment industry such as Warner Music’s Edgar Bronfman.
As usual, a key theme at the event will be how to increase usage of third-generation mobile phone networks, so that operators will be able to recoup the billions of pounds they spent on 3G licences at the beginning of the decade...read more: here