Om Malik pointed me to this post from MobileMonday…..

Gained one million subscribers in 4 months

3 announces 2 million subscribers in Italy

Timo Poropudas

26 Nov 2004 at 18:37

The company’s roll-out has been impressive. It installed 2,200 base stations in 2002, a further 2,100 last year and finally 1,300 more, so far, this year.

3 can now offer coverage of 70 percent of the Italian population or about 40 million potential customers in 1,250 cities. 3 plans to increase its coverage to 75 percent by the end of 2004.

The company is also offering 5,000 hours of “made for mobile” TV video sessions a month. According to the company the number of minutes that the public have watched using their mobile handsets has trebled in the last four months to 6.6 million.

[MobileMonday]

Russell beattie gets to say ‘I told yah so”. But Italy ain’t the U.S. But is someone was in Italy and involved with - say - a new conusmer electronics play - that wanted to expand into DLAs - then this is big news.

Does anybody know what 3G development tools/OS/hoops we gotta jump through to develop for these subscribers?

Paolo? Christian Vidmar? Danny Ayers?

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