Europe's Telecoms May Create Mobile Search
February 5, 2007 7:24 PM | Cingular | Three - 3 | Vodafone | Comments (0)
| Europe's biggest telecoms want to keep more of cell phone advertising in their pockets that hand it over to Google or Yahoo. Some of Europe's biggest telecoms groups will hold talks next week about creating a mobile phone search engine. Vodafone, France Telecom, Telefonica, Deutsche Telekom, Hutchison Whampoa, Telecom Italia and American network Cingular will come together for talks at the industry's annual trade show in Barcelona, Spain, Britain's Sunday Telegraph reported. The operators believe that creating their own search engine could help them to "retain a greater share of advertising revenues", it added. "There is a big play in mobile search that we need to be part of, and we are exploring those options at a very high level," an unnamed British executive at one of the companies involved told the paper. However, The implications for existing deals between the networks and the US search companies are not clear. Google has signed up Vodafone, Hutchison's 3 and T-Mobile, while Yahoo! has signed up Vodafone and 3. This will be interesting. |
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