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Ofcom report confirms mobile data ascendancy

Ofcom has released its seventh annual Communications Market report, supporting its regulatory goal to research markets and remain at the forefront of technological understanding. Headlines from the report have concentrated on how the mixed media of television, phones and the internet take up almost half our waking hours.
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Text Donations for Pakistan flood appeal

Pakistan Floods Appeal

Text 70707 with the word GIVE to donate £5. A standard network rate charge will apply.

Over 1,000 people are reported to have died with that number likely to rise as more information becomes available. About 2.5 million people are believed to have been affected by the floods which may worsen as further rain falls and water moves downstream. In the aftermath of the floods there is a serious risk to survivors from potentially deadly diseases which will spread as a result of contaminated surface and drinking water.

3D TV: a mobile solution?

With under two months until the FIFA World Cup kicks off in South Africa, sporting and technology excitement is reaching fever pitch. The tournament promises to demonstrate the range of ways football content can be consumed both on compact mobile devices and on larger screens across the world.

Three generations of MDA Chairmen examine the evolution of sporting media content and the impact of new technologies in this item. (This item can also be viewed in the MDA blog at http://blog.themda.org/?p=387 on LinkedIn in the MDA discussion group.

9 March 2010
Dialogue Appoints Regulator as Compliance Manager

Mobile messaging and mobile payments specialists Dialogue Communications has appointed Alex Crisp, formerly Investigations Executive at PhonepayPlus (the agent appointed by Ofcom to regulate paid-for telecoms services in the UK) to be its new Compliance Manager.

The Q4 2009 UK Mobile Trends Report

UK sends 11 million text messages an hour

London, UK, January 28th 2010: The Mobile Data Association (MDA) has welcomed new evidence of the UK’s ever growing appetite for mobile messaging, illustrated in its latest report.

Covering Text Messaging (SMS) and Picture and Video Messaging (MMS) activity for 2009/10, the mobile trade body’s report contains statistics aggregated from each of the UK’s Mobile Network Operators.

The continued growth of messaging is highlighted by a 2009 daily average of 265 million text messages and 1.6 million picture messages. 2009’s text message total was 96.8 billion, while over 600 million picture messages were sent across the whole year.

15th January

Following the successful use of charity short codes for the Children in Need appeal (see news story here), text donations are now available for the Disasters Emergency Committee's Haiti appeal.

Operated via UK Aggregator Mobile Interactive Group, you can donate £5 by texting GIVE to 70077 from your UK mobile phone. £5 goes to DEC. Each participant pays £5 plus their standard network charge.

5 months of messages in 24 hours

BBC Radio 1 Picture Messaging Day attracts five months’ worth of messages in 24 hours

LONDON, UK, December 17th 2009: BBC Radio 1’s Free Picture Messaging Day on Friday 11th December 2009 attracted the equivalent of five months’ Picture Message traffic in one 24 hour period.

BBC Picture Message Day

BBC Radio 1's Picture Message Day, held on Friday 11th December 2009, has been judged a massive success.

Produced as part of the Radio 1 Access All Areas week, listeners were invited to send in pictures of themselves, taken on their camera phones. With the active support of the Mobile Network Operators, who enabled all picture messages sent to the Radio 1 shortcode 81199 to be free for the 24 hour period, message traffic hit record levels. Some of the results can be viewed at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/mmsday/

On Monday 30th November the MDA announced its collaboration with BBC Radio 1 and the UK Mobile Network Operators to produce a free picture messaging day, on Friday 11th December, aimed at Radio 1 listeners as part of the BBC Access All Areas initiative and supporting the government’s Digital Britain roadmap and the desire to help more people to use more of their phone’s facilities for the benefit of themselves, their family and friends.

BBC Picture Messaging Day

BBC Radio 1 team-up with The Mobile Data Association to give listeners free picture messaging day

On Friday 11th December 2009, listeners in the United Kingdom can send free picture messages to the BBC Radio 1 messaging number (81199), for a chance to see their images featured on the BBC Radio 1 website.

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