USSD on iPhone
Originally posted on February 2, 2008 in Russian.
Reposted in May to demonstarte the use of USSD.
Played with iPhone a few days ago. Installed 1.1.2 firmware. From what is new I found that USSD Phase 2 intractive dialogues are now supported. One should have expected something like that because firmware was released for the launch in Europe. And as we know, our colleagues from Cellicium made a USSD portal for Orange. Orange, most likely, had pressured Americans to add support for USSD in the new baseband which comes with 1.1.2. I checked USSD functionality on MTS portal *111# which we are developing. Here are the screenshots. Read more
Some Facts About Internet and Russia
Source: Internet+Business Conference Presentations
Russia:
Population in Russia 142.2 million
Urban population 103.8 million
Urban population ages 16+ 88.2 million
Population ages 16+ 58.0 million
in cities 100 thousand people or more
Internet users:
30-40 million
30% growth of monthly audience (2008 vs 2007) Read more
Siberian Traffic Cops Charge Fines Using SMS
A new way of collecting traffic fines in Siberian city Krasnoyarsk:
“Traffic violators have the choice to pay a fine, or, send 10 text messages to their friends, reminding them to be respectful of the rules of the road.”
Source: www.textually.org
Foreign Tourists Left in Moscow Four Billion Dollars Over a Year
Source: lenta.ru
Foreign tourists have invested in Moscow economy about four billion dollars in 2007. That is the number given by Head of Moscow Tourist Committee Grigory Antyufeev, reports Interfax. Read more
First Steps of Mobile Advertisement in Russia
Source: http://cnews.ru, 03 April 2008
According to experts Russian mobile advertisement market will comprise at most 2% of the total world volume in 2008. Market analysts expect that advertisement from “big” Internet will become mobile although mobile Internet still lacks user-friendliness.
Russian Mobile Market in 2007
Source: http://world.procontent.ru/node/152
Highlights:
Mobile internet use increased 25% to 20,5 mln. users
Mobile internet paralleled mobile services in revenue
Mobile VAS contributed 13,5% of overall cellular market revenue in Russia
Trafficland Launches Mobile Media Broadcasting
Source: http://telecom.cnews.ru/, 25 Mar 2008
Trafficland and MIKS, first Russian Center for Mobile Media Broadcasting, have launched a mobile broadcasting service in Skylink’s CDMA-450 network. Read more
Russian Mobile Internet Statistics
Statistics from a site of mobile advertising agency mobiledirect.ru
Size
14 million – monthly users (IKS-Consulting)
Growth
10% a month
Age
13-17 y.o. – 9%
17-20 y.o. – 22%
20-25 y.o. – 31%
25-35 y.o. – 32%
35-50 y.o. – 6%
Gender
Men – 70%
Women – 30%
Use
Content downloads, communication, news, humor, quick reference
