That's all the information in the article. I assume it's a cellular operator outside of the United States because Chris probably wouldn't say "top five" if the customer was in the U.S. There are only five "top" operators: AT&T Wireless/Cingular, Nextel, Sprint PCS, T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless.
Textamerica's business plan is based upon, I believe, licensing its platform to cellular operators and corporations. (Disclosure: I consulted for textamerica last year but not now.)
Users and lurkers
Hoar says the company has 500,000 registered users. About 20 percent of those users post images from camera phones. The rest just look at the site and post comments.
He notes that moblogs drive usage of camera phones. I definitely agree. Cellular operators should be promoting moblogging -- and adding features -- faster than they are.
A PR person for AT&T Wireless, Ritch Blasi says "we're definitely looking at this." AT&T should do more than just look!
Nokia's Lifeblog
The article also briefly discusses Nokia's Lifeblog, phone/PC software that organizes all sorts of information -- SMS, e-mail, digital and camera phone photos, camcorder and camer phone videos -- in chronological order on a handset and a computer.
Lifeblog doesn't offer Weblog or moblog capabilities. You can't post items to the Web. But that certainly is a possibility in the future.
Interestingly, when Nokia was designing camera phones, it didn't think about the development of moblogs, notes a Nokia representative.
That's what I like about the camera phone business. May of today's uses weren't considered when camera phones were first being designed. That means there are lots of opportunities for providing useful and fun consumer and business products and services as well as opportunities for generating revenues.
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