Movistar Chile Selects Mobile Streams as Exclusive Content Provider
Santiago, Chile (ContentDesk via ContentDesk Direct) July 25, 2006 -- Mobile Streams, the global mobile content company, announced today an agreement with Movistar Chile, Chiles leading GSM/CDMA mobile telecommunications operator with over 4 million customers and a 47% of market share, with Mobile Streams being selected as the exclusive provider for their white brand polyphonic ringtones offering. The content will be available through WAP and SMS channels and over 1000 songs are included in the catalogue. Mobile Streams also supplies Truetones, Wallpapers and other applications to Movistar Chile through the same channels. Bego?a Varas V., Value Added Service Manager at Movistar Chile said: We have selected Mobile Streams as the exclusive provider as it will allow us to enhance our current content services and keep Movistar as the market leader for rich content services. We are committed to delivering a superb service to our customers, and are excited to benefit from Mobile Streams global knowledge and experience. Simon Buckingham, CEO of Mobile Streams said: The relationship with Movistar in Chile is an important step in establishing a leadership position within the Latin American mobile content market and we are very pleased about our partnership.
Each additional deployment of a Mobile Streams service around the world further underscores the value and timeliness of our high performance. About Mobile Streams Mobile Streams is a leading provider of music, comedy, sport and entertainment content to handsets and other wireless devices, whose mobile expertise and distribution platform, Vuesia, is used globally by some of the world's largest media groups and mobile phone networks including Vodafone, and 3 in the UK, America Movil, Movistar & TIM in Latin America, Fido & Rogers in Canada and Dobson in the US. Vuesia is Mobile Streams full service enterprise mobile media management solution. Vuesia facilitates content ingestion, management, delivery, billing and reporting. The Company creates, licenses and delivers quality content to Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) and consumers in the form of ringtones, graphics, video clips and other products. It has developed relationships with both content owners and MNOs which enable it to act as an intermediary, providing an end-to-end service encompassing a broad range of elements from content licensing to content production, account management and channel management.
Mobile Streams has subsidiaries in Germany, the US, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Chile and Colombia and has approximately 100 employees. For more information please go to www.mobilestreams.com About MovistarMovistar is the largest operator in Chile now with the 47% of the market followed by Entel PCS with a 42%. With national coverage on GSM and CDMA networks and full GPRS coverage and local EDGE network in highly populated cities Movistar is leading the Mobile communication industry in Chile.For more information please go to www.movistar.clMobile Streams Contact:John Forrester + 1 (323) 702-3684.
Naks Mobile Offers Mobile Content from Ogie Alcasid to Mobile Phone Users in the US
WILTON, CT (ContentDesk via ContentDesk Direct) July 17, 2006 -- Next Ideas Inc., operator of Naks Mobile (http://www.naksmobile.com), the first mobile entertainment service for Filipinos living in the US, has signed an agreement with leading Filipino composer and vocalist Ogie Alcasid to produce and distribute Ogies content to mobile phone users.
As part of the agreement, Ogie, who also hosts several popular TV shows in the Philippines such as "Bubble Gang" and "SOP" on the GMA network, will provide ringtones, voicemail greetings, screensavers, wallpapers, themes and SMS infotainment text alerts.
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