Simyo slashes iPhone price by EUR 100

I got this tit-bit in German. In brief Simyo.de is slashing the price of iPhone (without SIM-Lock) by EUR 100 to EUR 699.

Android phone Motorola Milestone comes to Simyo Germany

Simyo has just announced the Motorola Milestone slider phone for its customers. The Droid phone will retail at EUR 464,99 and will be available in etronixx phone shops.

Are mobile operators taking social networking and FANISM a bit too far?

German mobile discounter Simyo has created a Facebook fan page in a weird move to connect with consumers. The page, which can be viewed here: http://www.facebook.com/simyoDE, is an attempt by the company to further embrace social media and enable consumers to rate, slate, sing and dance about the mobile discounter.

Simyo launches a petition to FREE the new iPhone 3GS – iphonesfree.de

Rebel discount provider in Germany simyo has launched a new website called iPhonesfree.de.

Unkasoft and mmChannel provide free mobile games to Simyo in Spain

mmChannel and Unkasoft become partners in 2009 and this one of their latest deals – providing free mobile games to MVNO simyo in Spain.
From the press release:
‘In-game advertising will be the most effective format in mobile marketing thanks to the interaction with the consumers’, Juan Antonio Muñoz, Unkasoft founder.
What we think?
This is brilliant news [...]

Holy baloney – German mobile phone discounter Simyo turns 4!

What happens to the time? I can remember the day simyo launched and being invited to Dusseldorf for this new start-ups official launch. Now 4 years on the press release reflects on the fact that its prices for mobile calls are now 9 cents a minute but when it launched in Germany they were 79 [...]

Simyo launches a clever saving tariff that pays you 10 cents to join

I am baffled, yet amazed, by this new tariff from Simyo.  It costs EUR 4.90 for the SIM but comes with EUR 5 top-up included. So basically you are ten cents up from the start!

But this is just a special offer for March. Additional costs can occur if you take your mobile phone number with you [...]

Smaato Party / Tweetup at Mobile World Congress

The Smaato mobile award party and MWC Tweetup happened in Barcelona tonight. Rolf Hansen, Founder & CEO of simyo, a German MVNO, gave a very interesting talk. The speech includes an overview of his company, but it’s mainly about how mobile companies can collaborate and enter into a dialogue with their users for better performance.

Smaato [...]

Simyo Pate 2.0 – a new customer care interactive mobile community in Germany? Or is it?

I have to say – I live in Germany- I speak German –but I am completely confused by the latest press release from Simyo.

It is called simyo Pate 2.0. Is it a social network or a voting system or what? 
It seems to be a self-help questions and answers service for simyo – but I am [...]

Forget the Greystripe get sexy with ad-funded games on Simyo

The CEO of Mobile Games Company GreyStripe Michael Chang contacted me yesterday. He was delighted to announce that Greystripe has teamed up with Simyo. He said, that basically Simyo is a hot early adopter mobile operator that “gets mobile advertising”.

This is the first mobile operator client for Greystripe - but might be the start of a [...]

Simyo in Germany turns three years old –launches 3 EUR starter-set, reduces device prices by 20%

What is happening to the time? I can remember covering Simyo launch in Germany and now its already 3 years old.

So, because of its birthday it has some new offers. First of all we get a flat rate Simyo starter kit with a flat rate (Simyo to simyo) of 3 EURO per month.
Yikes – that [...]

Yahoo! steals another win from white label mobile search providers in Germany

I reported a few months ago that Yahoo! had teamed up with German player simyo for oneSearch.

But I also knew that three other very small white label providers were trialling services for simyo. But Yahoo! has just announced that it has extended its relationship with simyo and oneSearch will now also become the exclusive search [...]

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