Mobile Content Russia

MTS, the largest cellular network operator in Russia and CIS, has resumed publication of its content-providers ratings and published the rating of content-providers for third quarter of 2009. Top 5 companies in the rating are A1, IncoreMedia, Inform-Mobil, i-Free, and Neva Line.

In its ratings MTS takes into account the income its partners get from offering their content-services to MTS subscribers. The presented rating should help in informing about situation in content services market and current position of largest Russian content-providers.

VimpelCom (which operates under the Beeline trademark) published the rating of content-providers for September 2009. Top-20 is based on total fee paid to companies by VimpelCom for providing services via partner programs (voice, SMS, WAP). Top 5 companies in the rating are Zed Russian (former INFON), A1, i-Free, SMS Online, and IncoreMedia. A new company RM-Invest (SMS-Dostup) appeared in the list.

1. Zed Russia (INFON)
2. A1
3. i-Free
4. SMS Online
5. IncoreMedia
6. Neva Line
7. Plastic Media
8. Next Media Channels (part of Next Media Group)
9. Iricom
10. Inform-Mobil/IMMO

VimpelCom (which operates under the Beeline trademark) published the rating of content-providers for September 2009. Top-20 is based on total fee paid to companies by VimpelCom for providing services via partner programs (voice, SMS, WAP). Top 5 companies in the rating are A1, Zed Russia (INFON), i-Free, IncoreMedia, and SMS Online.

1. A1
2. Zed Russian (former INFON)
3. i-Free
4. IncoreMedia
5. SMS Online
6. Neva Line
7. Plastic Media
8. Next Media Channels (part of Next Media Group)
9. Iricom
10. Inform-Mobil/IMMO

VimpelCom (which operates under the Beeline trademark) published the rating of content-providers for June 2009. Top-20 is based on total fee paid to companies by VimpelCom for providing services via partner programs (voice, SMS, WAP). Top 5 companies in the rating are A1, i-Free, Zed Russia, IncoreMedia and Neva Line.

1. A1
2. i-Free
3. Zed Russia (INFON)
4. IncoreMedia
5. Neva Line
6. SMS Online
7. Next Media Channels (Next Media Group)
8. Iricom
9. Plastic Media
10. Inform-Mobil/IMMO

VimpelCom (which operates under the Beeline trademark) published the rating of content-providers for May 2009. Top-20 is based on total fee paid to companies by VimpelCom for providing services via partner programs (voice, SMS, WAP). Top 5 companies in the rating are A1, i-Free, Zed Russia, IncoreMedia and Neva Line.

1. A1
2. i-Free
3. Zed Russia (former INFON)
4. IncoreMedia
5. Neva Line
6. Iricom
7. Next Media Channels
8. Plastic Media
9. SMS Online
10. Inform-Mobil/IMMO

VimpelCom (which operates under the Beeline trademark) (which operates under the Beeline trademark) published the rating of content-providers for April 2009. Top-20 is based on total fee paid to companies by VimpelCom for providing services via partner programs (voice, SMS, WAP). Top 5 companies in the rating are A1, INFON, i-Free, Neva Line and IncoreMedia.

1. A1
2. Zed Russia (former INFON)
3. i-Free
4. Neva Line
5. IncoreMedia
6. Iricom
7. Inform-Mobil/IMMO
8. Next Media Channels
9. Plastic Media
10. SMS Online

Mobile content giant Zed has paid more than $5 million for a «50 percent plus 1» share in Temafon, a Russian mobile content aggregation service and part of Tema Mobile Media, according to Russian business newspaper Vedomosti, citing two unnamed sources «close to the deal». A Zed spokesperson confirmed the purchase but declined to disclose the financial terms of the acquisition. Temafon is the exclusive aggregator of Russian-based mobile content to Beeline, the carrier brand of VimpelCom, the country's second largest network, which owns an indirect minority share in the aggregator.

The purchase strengthens Zed's position in the Russian mobile content market, where it already owns Infon, a local mobile content provider, through its acquisition of Monstemob.

VimpelCom (which operates under the Beeline trademark) (which operates under the Beeline trademark) published the rating of content-providers for February 2009. Top-20 is based on total fee paid to companies by VimpelCom for providing services via partner programs (voice, SMS, WAP). Top 5 companies in the rating are A1, i-Free, INFON, Iricom, Neva Line.

1. A1
2. i-Free
3. INFON
4. Iricom
5. Neva Line
6. SMS Online
7. IncoreMedia
8. Inform-Mobil/IMMO
9. Next Media Channels
10. Plastic Media

MTS-Ukraine has reported the results of mobile content operations in the second half of 2008. TOP 5 content-providers are: i-Free-Ukraine, Jump Ukraine, INFON-Ukraine, Iricom-Ukraine, A1 Ukraine.

1. i-Free Ukraine
2. Jump Ukraine
3. Infon Ukraine
4. Iricom Ukraine
5. A1 Ukraine
6. Silver Polygraph
7. Playfon Ukraine
8. Telegames Mediagroup

MegaFon, one of the three largest mobile network operators in Russia, published the rating of content-providers for the year 2008. TOP-5 content-providers are: Incore, A1, i-Free, INFON (Zed Russia), Shamrock Games (part of Next Media Group).

1. Incore
2. A1
3. i-Free
4. INFON (Zed Russia)
5. Shamrock Games (part of Next Media Group)
6. Plastic Media
7. Iricom
8. Forte-IT
9. Karolina Technology
10. Telemarket