iPhone 3G exclusively for AT&T until 2010? The U.S. mobile phone market is rapidly becoming saturated — meaning everybody who wants a cellphone already has one, that means carriers have to do everything they can to steal subscribers from each other and also maintain a competitive edge against their rivals. Under the original iPhone contract, Apple had the right to offer Apple iPhone 3G to other carriers beginning in 2009, so AT&T wants to extend their exclusivity agreement into 2010. AT&T chief Randall Stephenson declined to discuss the contract, saying only that he is “very happy” with the arrangement.
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T-Mobile SMS Text Messaging Rates to be increased. T-Mobile will bump text messaging rates up from $0.15 cents to $0.20 cents. It seems this pricing increase will not hit customers who opted for unlimited texting plans, but unfortunately the price will hurt ‘pay-per-message’ customers and may give them an out, it will go in effect on August 29.
Mobile Payment Transaction Values to go beyond $300 billion globally by 2013. According to Juniper Research, A new analysis of the mobile payments opportunity forecasts that the gross transaction value of payments made via mobile phone for digital goods (such as music, tickets and games) and physical goods (typically gifts and books) will exceed $300bn globally by 2013. 
Intel Atom chip for iPhone? We already heard the Infineon chipset, etc from the previous 
Alltel “My Circle” Unlimited Text Messaging. Following on the previous report that 
KDDI + Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Partnership for Online Bank. According to Reuters, KDDI and The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ have been in partnership to set up an online bank. KDDI and Bank of Tokyo expect to have 2.4 million accounts and deposits representing a total of 1 trillion yen ($9.27 billion) in the fiscal year starting April 2010. Then, in the following two years, the bank plans to have a total of 3.4 million accounts and 1.5 trillion yen in deposits. The 50-50 joint venture will be called Jibun Bank or “me bank,” and will reportedly debut in mid-July. from O2 UK.jpg)
Windows Mobile to Grow 50% per-Year. According to Reuters, Microsoft expects global units sales of its Windows Mobile software to grow at least 50 percent in the fiscal years 2008 and 2009. The Asia-Pacific, Middle East, Brazilian, Russian and Indian regions are the fastest-growing smartphone markets, but Europe and the US are still getting positive growth. “We’re actually still seeing very good growth (for our mobile software) in markets like Europe and the United States,” said Eddie Wu, Microsoft’s managing director of OEM embedded devices Asia. 
Samsung Phone + Infineon Chipsets. Samsung has reportedly made the move to start using more of Infineon’s chipsets in upcoming cellphones. Before Infineon, Samsung’s chipset needs used to be serviced by US-based Qualcomm. But Samsung suddenly decided in April that Qualcomm just won’t cut it any more. 
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