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Telenor to Offer Facebook on GSM Phones via USSD Connectivity

­Telenor Group says that it has entered into an agreement with U2opia Mobile to bring Facebook to its millions of non-Internet connected customers via ussd services.  more

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Telkomsel Launches Facebook by Fonetwish in Indonesia

­Indonesia's Telkomsel has launched a ussd based service that gives customers access to the Facebook website without using internet access. To access the "Facebook by Fonetwish" application,  subscribers just dial *325# to log into their Facebook profiles, update status and view their friends' walls.  more

Related Tags: telkomsel, facebook, Indonesia


Orange Taps into USSD to Offer Facebook Services via Text Message

Orange says that it is launching a new service to provide mobile access to Facebook for an even wider range of customers.  more

Related Tags: facebook, orange, 2g, Cote D'Ivoire


Vimpelcom Expands USSD Mobile Menu Service to Additional CIS Subsidiaries

­Sicap has announced the integration of its value-added mobile service menu browser platform into Vimpelcom's subsidiary networks.  more

Related Tags: sicap, vimpelcom, Uzbekistan


Comviva Says it Has 52 USSD Deployments in 39 Countries

Comviva has announced that it now has 52 ussd deployments across 39 countries and is handling up to 130 million transactions/day on different operator networks. Comviva added that its ussd solutions are deployed by operators handling over 220 million hits daily.  more

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Bharti Airtel Offers First USSD Based Facebook Application

­India's Bharti Airtel has launched what it says is the first mobile Facebook application that runs over the ussd-based platform built into mobile phones, without using the internet or activating GPRS capabilities.  more

Related Tags: bharti-airtel, gprs, facebook, India


Smartphone Widgets Coming to Low-Cost Mobile Phones

Handset software developer, Myriad Group has launched a mobile widgets service that it says is aimed at low cost handsets for developing markets.  more

Related Tags: myriad-group, widgets, smartphone, chipset, display, myriad, feature-phones


T-Mobile Launches USSD Based Customer Care Platform

T-Mobile Czech Republic is launching a ussd based customer service portal for its mobile phone subscribers, after the company deployed a platform supplied by Myriad Group. The solution is a self-service system that allows customers to quickly access services and information on their mobile handset and change their settings. more

Related Tags: t-mobile, myriad-group, telekom, Czech Republic


Malaysia's Celcom Orders USSD Based Mobile Money Service

Malaysian mobile network operator, Celcom has ordered a mobile money service based on ussd (Unstructured Supplementary Service Data) from Sybase 365. ussd is an 'instant messaging type' phone service with quick response times. ussd is similar to SMS, but unlike SMS, ussd transactions occur only during the session and have no store-and-forward capability.  more

Related Tags: celcom, sybase-365, mobile-banking, mobile-commerce, mobile-money, sybase, Malaysia


Mobile Payment Users Worldwide to Increase 70 Percent in 2009

The mobile payment industry will experience steady growth, as the number of mobile payment users worldwide will total 73.4 million in 2009, up 70.4 percent from 2008 when there were 43.1 million users, reports Gartner. The research firm predicts that the number of mobile payment users will reach more than 190 million in 2012, representing more than 3 percent of total mobile users worldwide and attaining a level at which it will be considered "mainstream."  more

Related Tags: mobile-banking, gartner, 3, billing, presence, mobile-content, mobile-money, latin-america, africa


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