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Pearls - New real mobile services in
use somewhere in the world, described on one slide. Pearls are collected by Tomi T Ahonen, 3G
Strategy Consultant.
"It makes sense that content providers focus on
SMS and 2G WAP as they are comfortable with these technologies now,
and there is a large population of
users," Ahonen says. Mobile
Internet
Select year for the Pearls in that year
Pearls
of the Month for 2004 click here [Pearls 2004]
contains Big Brother in Sweden (Jan), Orange
Bikes in Netherlands (Feb), Disco Chatboards in UK (Mar), MMS Stickers (Apr),
Exchange Rates in Singapore (May), LBS Allergy warnings Germany (Jun), Alibis
Germany (Jul), License Plate SMS in UK (Aug), Kwickee Guides pay contributors UK
(Sep), Insult Comedy in USA (Oct/Pearl
of Year 2004), SMS Pill box South Africa (Nov), WiFi Lightpoles in Cameroon
(Dec/Christmas Pearl)
Pearls
of the Month for 2003 click here [Pearls 2003]
contains 48 Hour Service Launch Hong Kong
(Jan), Waiting Tones/Ringback Tones Korea (Feb/Pearl of the Year 2003), SuperStable Horse Breeding Hong Kong
(Mar), South Park Game (Apr), Airline Check In (May), Music Direct to Mobile Korea
(Jun), TV Viewer Count New Zealand (Jul), Launch Videogame Preview to Mobile (Aug),
Evolving Traffic Cam Korea (Sep), Transfer Minutes Philippines (Oct), Just-In-Time
Dentist Finland (Nov), Videocalls for Deaf People Austria (Dec/Christmas Pearl)
Pearls
of the Month for 2002 click here [Pearls 2002]
contains Animated Messaging (Jan), Executives
Use SMS in UK (Feb), Telemarketing USA (Mar), Pay Cash for Viewing Ads on
Mobile UK (Apr), Access Cash Machine with Mobile Denmark (May), Identify Music
with Shazam in UK (Jun/Pearl of the Year
2002), From Film to Digital Pictures (Jun), m-Parking Estonia (Aug),
Queue-busting in UK (Sep), SMS-to-TV Chat Finland (Oct), Network Game Killer
Bees Austria (Nov), LBS Bar Finder UK (Dec)
Pearls
of the Month for 2001 click here [Pearls 2001]
contains Mobile Translator Korea/Japan (Aug), Profitable ISP in Japan Cybird
(Sep), m-Banking Czech (Oct), Sabre Mobile Flight Info (Nov), Public Transport
by Mobile in Finland (Dec)
Note: Prior to these, Tomi was working for
Nokia and Pearls were collected and catalogued in his department. That is why
there are no older Pearls officially published on this website. Tomi has
literally over 1,000 of these, so if you'd like some more info, please write to
him at tomi@tomiahonen.com
Pearls are collected by Tomi T Ahonen, 3G
Strategy Consultant and bestselling author on 3G business. A Pearl is a real world mobile service making money today, described on
one slide. If you like these, please contact Tomi Ahonen for many many
more.
To send e-mail about Pearls or to request workshop
availability or for any other contact, please send e-mail to tomi@tomiahonen.com
If you have found a
Tomi talks about Pearls always in his
presentations. To see Tomi's upcoming
and past conference speakerships see [Tomi Conferences]
His first book, Services for UMTS features over
200 services in detail, see [Services for UMTS]
His second book includes the money side of 170
service ideas and includes 50 real existing services, see [m-Profits: Money & 3G]
For recent press coverage of Tomi Ahonen see [See Tomi in Press]
For business consulting workshops and services see [3G Workshops & Consulting]
Biography of Tomi T Ahonen [Biography Tomi T Ahonen]
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