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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
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PEARL OF THE YEAR
2005 winner is Mobile Blogging site and Virtual Playground Cyworld of South
Korea
It was the Pearl of
the Month for June 2005
The Pearl of the Year 2005 award goes to South
Korean mobile and broadband internet converged social
networking site, Cyworld on SK Telecom's Network. The original Pearl from June
2005 already mentioned the heavy mobile blogging use and the commerce inside
Cyworld. Since then Cyworld had reached 30% of the total population by end of
2005, with over 100,000 songs sold daily inside Cyworld, and the service had
started an international expansion with the first Cyworld expansion going to
China. Our Congratulations! The other finalists in 2005 were in no particular
order: Location Based Virtual Robot Network Mobile Game from Sweden; Ohmy News
Citizen Journalism Newspaper from South Korea; SMS-to-TV Rap from Finland;
SeeMeTV Paid video content on mobile blogs from UK and Italy; and
Videoclip-To-TV chat from South Korea.
For the full Press Release about the Pearl of
the Year award, please see
[ Link Coming ]
Tomi's specialty is on how to make money with
new mobile services, today! He has already
discussed more than 1000 service ideas with various industry inside audiences,
and at public conferences has discussed openly over 600 new service ideas on
cellular technologies such as 2G voice, SMS, WAP, HSCSD, GPRS, CDMA 1X, UMTS,
3G and even 4G. Most of his over 100 press quotes include new service mentions.
Tomi Ahonen is probably the most prolific new mobile service evangelist in the
world and recently at the CTIA/WCNC in New Orleans participated in IEEE's first
ever discussion on how mobile services migrate from 3G to 4G.
Tomi collects new service ideas into what he
calls "Pearls" - existing mobile services described on one slide.
Pearls describe services which are making money for someone already somewhere
in the world, and most Pearls are easily and immediately implementable
anywhere. His collection includes over 1000 currently valid Pearls and
countless historical ones.
If you are interested in new services, Tomi's
first book, Services for UMTS, includes 200 potential service ideas -
many relating to his collection of Pearls. In Tomi's second book, m-Profits:
Making Money from 3G, apart from examining the revenues and profits of 170
potential new service ideas, there are also 50 real services from around the
world. To see more about the books, click either
[Services for UMTS] or [m-Profits: Money & 3G]
Tomi Ahonen also continues his series of
columns in major telecoms media to argue on behalf of successful mobile
services. See his latest column in the Financial Times FT.Com / IT supplement
on the topic of killer applications specific to 3G entitled "More than
Something for Everyone". Find the full story at
the Financial Times / FT.Com website at this link [Tomi Ahonen
Column in Financial Times]
This page is the collection of the Pearl of the
Month, updated every month with Tomi's favourite Pearl for the previous month.
If you would like to use these Pearls, please contact Tomi and he will send you
the actual Powerpoint Slide(s) you want for free. If you would like to see many
more Pearls that may be more relevant to your business, please send e-mail to tomi@tomiahonen.com
RECENT
PEARLS from 2006 – Click on image or link to
view.
(NOTE:
These are behind schedule, I will try to get these online very soon, please
come back)
Pearl of the Month July - Car Credit to People
with Bad Credit though Disabling Car if Payments Not paid from USA
Pearl of the Month June - SMS to Butt: Premium
Jeans in France with SMS display panel at rear
Pearl of the Month May - Bank becomes MVNO in
Ukraine
Pearl of the Month April - Children's Tag Game
("you're it") Launches on Mobile in USA
Pearl of the Month March - Secret SMS via 007 Service
in Czech Republic
Pearl of the Month February - Anti-Valentine's
Day Picture Blogs in UK
Pearl of the Month January - Peoples's Idols
Variant to Pop Idols TV Format from Finland
To see older pearls, including 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002 and
2001, click here [Older Pearls]
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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