Vodafone Live Hits The Jackpot
Ever since the rapid growth of DoCoMo's i-mode carriers around the world, and DoCoMo itself, have been trying to replicate that growth outside of Japan. DoCoMo's success with European partners had been lukewarm at best. But now it seems that Vodafone might be on to something with its Live! handsets and services. Since launching 5 months ago they have signed up 1 million customers, the majority in Germany, the UK and Italy. But it's still unclear of those 1 million customers who bought Live! compatible handsets how many are using data services such as MMS and mobile email.
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