BRIEFS

A survey of US mobile users has found 41% of those interested in mobile video would accept advertising in return for watching free content. The survey by the Mobile Marketing Association also found 20% were prepared to watch ads in order to reduce their fee. 

Microsoft  and BT have launched a competition to promote the development of solutions that merge traditional telecommunications offerings such as voice or text with Web 2.0 apps such as mapping or search.

ZTE has announced what it believes is the world's smallest W-CDAM micro base station, weighing just 17kg and with volume of 19 liters.

SK Telecom has become the tenth member of Bridge Mobile Alliance. Others include CSL, SingTel and Maxis.

Telstra and Ericsson have built the world's first 200-kilometer radius mobile cell in a commercial network. The cell, in Telstra's Next network in he 850 MHz band, offers downlink speeds of up to 14.4 Mbps.