Mobile Content Russia

During April this year SmsCoin project has connected 70th country on the list. The summer had passed, and SmsCoin representatives proudly present their partners with an autumn gift – the connection of 9 additional countries: Italy, Vietnam, Guatemala, Honduras, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay. Thus, SmsCoin project has expanded its services coverage up to 81 countries in total, and this step clearly positions SmsCoin as a leader on the mobile payments market across Russia as well as abroad.

SmsCoin, an international sms-billing project offers its partners the most extensive global coverage supporting hundreds of mobile carriers across 71 countries, spreading out beyond its limits once again. This time, SmsCoin project launches brand new partnership proposal aimed for aggregators with an access to sms-gateway in any given country.

Spb Software announces the release of the WAP version of its flagship mobile solution SPB TV.

SPB TV is already available on iPhone, Android, Symbian, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, and WebOS smartphones. SPB Software now extends the mobile TV solution to feature phone users, offering 3G customers a free mobile IP TV solution with the state-of-the-art TV-like user experience. Mobile phone owners, no matter where they are, can now get easy and instant access to over a 150 subscription-free TV channels from more than 20 countries, using SPB TV on their phones.

Nikita Mobile (Armenia) has won the tender for developing of mobile content USSD-portal for one of the three Armenian mobile operators. While creating the USSD-portal Nikita Mobile involved WINGS, who developed the platform for content providers. (Previously, Nikita Mobile transferred its own services to WINGS multi-transport platform supporting SMS, IVR, WAP, USSD, etc.). WINGS team conducted works on connecting the platform to the operator, realizing of transport protocol, integrating with the project information partner’s systems, and preparing statistics. The platform supports the direct interaction with the operator’s system and provides multiple information services and entertainment content catalogue to the subscribers. Withdrawal from the subscriber's account for the paid services is made by MT billing. The information partners of the portal have access to the USSD-portal online statistics.

International SMS billing provider SmsCoin announced the introduction of new set of features for its clients. There are 70 countries currently connected to SmsCoin system, and as the company has announced earlier that is hardly the limit. SmsCoin has simplified the process for its partners while working with current and future countries on the list by adding new features to our system. The first feature on the list is already implemented and working properly. This feature is an e-mail notification regarding rates updates. As soon as any kind of change made to rates key parameters as well as adding or removing new parameters takes place, a partner will be notified via your e-mail address.

Russian flag-carrier Aeroflot is to equip four of its aircraft with in-flight mobile communications capability developed by a domestic company.

Moscow-based mobile network operator MegaFon is to provide base stations to be fitted to Aeroflot's aircraft. The first jet to be fitted will be an Airbus A320, with the initial installation completed by summer 2010. Aeroflot will extend the service to an Airbus A330, and plans to equip two more A320s, by the end of the year.

Spb Software House announces the release of SPB TV for webOS. This is the very first application from SPB Software for this eye candy Linux-based mobile operating system. SPB TV is a mobile IPTV viewer with TV-like usability, designed for tuning in to publicly available digital TV channels from all over the world.

With the arrival of SPB TV for webOS, SPB Software expands the list of supported platforms (including also Android, iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile and Symbian).

Spb Software, a leading mobile applications and games developer announces the release of SPB TV for iPhone which is becoming SPB Software's flagship application for this enormously popular mobile platform. SPB TV for iPhone is a freeware mobile IPTV viewer with TV-like usability, created for tuning in to publicly available digital TV channels from all over the world.

As SmsCoin promised a while ago, this spring is going to be full of surprising news one of which is especially irresistible. At the end of a long journey while looking for better costs, testing technical features in addition to all that has anything do with connecting a new country, we are happy to announce that India is connected at last. There are 4 rates available amongst which 2 USD is the highest one and is considered to be quite acceptable rate as many of our partners think.

India is considered to be the second largest country in the world population wise (1 198 003 000 residents), and is very appealing to many projects worldwide. That is what positively affects India when speaking about rates as oppose to the largest country in the world population wise — China.

Opera Software today announced that MTS, the largest cellular network operator in Russia and CIS, will now provide a co-branded version of the Opera Mini browser for its subscribers, who will be able to download it on their mobile phones at mini.opera.com. Subscribers of MTS will get access to a customized Opera Mini start page when they download the browser on their mobile phones.

The start page will have default bookmarks which give MTS subscribers quick and easy access to music, videos and games as well as giving users the opportunity to purchase content directly from the browser.