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Highly regarded speakers from mobile operators and MVNO such as Banglalink, Bina Indonusa, China Mobile Research Institute, Chunghwa Telecom, Dialog Axiata, Essar Telecom Group, Grameephone, Idea Cellular, PT Bakrie Telecom, PT Indosat, Reliance Communications and True Digital Contents & Media will present case studies on their experience in launching Mobile Value Added Services at Mobile VAS World Summit 2011 which will be held from 12 to 13 September 2011 in Singapore.

A VII international conference «Mobile content - MoCo2011» – one of the key events in mobile content industry - will take place between July 9th and 10th in Moscow. During 7 years, the Forum brings together leading companies from Russia, CIS countries, EU countries, Middle East and USA. SmsCoin project, which provides a complete platform for SMS payments implementation across almost 90 countries worldwide, performs as a sponsor of «Mobile commerce» session.

During the session the participants will discuss the expectations of mobile commerce participants regarding industry development, the characteristics of cooperation between the companies that offer mobile commerce services, legislation issues, target audience of mobile commerce services and consumption patterns, latest wireless technologies and employment perspectives within the mobile commerce industry.

MTS, the largest cellular network operator in Russia and CIS, announces that it has won the GSM Association’s (“GSMA”) 15th Annual Global Mobile Award at the 2010 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. MTS won the award in the “Best Billing & Customer Care Solution” category for its “Your Individual Optimal Tariff Plan” service. MTS is the first mobile operator from Russia and the CIS to be recognized with one of the most prestigious awards in the telecommunications industry.

Now in its 6th year, Eurasia Com conference and exhibition returns to Istanbul for 2 days of networking, learning and business development.  With 400 senior level attendees from operators, regulators, MVNOs ISPs, service providers and solutions and technology vendors from across the Caspian, Black Sea and Central Asia, this is a unique convergence of all that is communications in this growing market.

Mobile Content Russia Magazine is pleased to share with its readers the video of Victor Saeijs' presentation at VI Mobile VAS Conference. Victor Saeijs is Vice-President Sales Eurasia Nokia. Victor presents the new SDK with Ovi Maps integration for mobile developers and explains why Nokia stepped into mobile internet-based services market.

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Mobile Content Russia Magazine is pleased to share with its readers the video of Ivar van Dijk presentation at VI Mobile VAS Conference “Driving scale through bundling: Strategies for delivering mobile entertainment”.

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We'd like to share the video of Antti Viitanen presentation at VI Mobile VAS Conference "What’s next for mobile data?".

Antti Viitanen is director of Digia company. Antti Viitanen is responsible for Digia's international products. Before joining Digia, Antti has worked for 10 years in mobile operator & mobile service industries and 10 years in media industry. He worked for AlmaMedia, Yahoo! Mobile, TeliaSonera and RealNetworks occupying various management positions.


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Russian mobile advertising agency MobileDirect has offered master classes on mobile marketing in high schools, and recently has given the first lecture to students of political science faculty in Moscow State University.

Ten years ago special courses on «big internet» were read both to students and teachers in a trial mode. There were neither student books, nor lecture material. Today the history repeats itself with mobile internet. The significant example of the western market and stable mobile market growth in Russia let us say that marketing experts of new generation should have a good knowledge about mobile internet capabilities, so that they could use it in active products promotion on the market.

i-Free has joined Google in «Help Me!», a humanitarian project for Russia. The proceeds will go to children with disabilities via the CAF Russia charity.

Help Me! is a charitable initiative undertaken by Google and the Russian YouTube Symphony Orchestra in conjunction with the philanthropic fund, CAF Russia. The two other project participants, i-Free and Chrono Pay, will make it possible to donate money by mobile phone, online or by plastic card.

Plastic Media conducted mobile voting trial that took place at several polling stations in Raduzny, Vladimir region, during legislative assembly elections on March 1, 2009. During the trial voters sent text messages to free short number 5061, specially provided by operators for the occasion. After sending SMS users opened a special Java application for voting that was preliminary installed on their handsets.

Plastic Media offered solution, which allowed subscribers of all operators working in the region take part in the voting. More than 3 000 people took part in the trial (that is about one third of all voters in Raduzhny), and that demonstrated high potential of mobile voting.