Archive for June, 2006

Debitel launches Mobile TV offering for €9.95 per month

June 2, 2006

According to various sources, Debitel has launched a mobile TV offering in cooperation with MFD. MFD, a young German start-up has managed to secure a nationwide DMB license earlier this year. Now, Debitel is on air with a €9.95 / month package with four channels (Pro7Sat1 Channel, MTV, N24 and ZDF) in Berlin, Cologne, Frankfurt, [...]

Advertising revenues becoming more important for MNOs

June 1, 2006

MNOs such as Vodafone and T-Mobile are moving aggressively into the mobile marketing space in order to generate new forms of revenues and to compensate for lost voice and SMS business. Now, Virgin Mobile in the US is going down a very innovative path in the mobile world: “subsidized ad calling”.
Takeaway: Subsidizing calls on a [...]

Schambach attracts funding from T-Venture

June 1, 2006

Valerie Thompson recently reported about several successful start-ups, who were set up by former Intershop founders and managers. One of thesse companies, demandware, headed up by Stephan Schambach, seems to be doing well. Although the company is HQ’ed in the US, they have recently attracted a German VC investment from the T-Venture fund according to [...]