Solutions to help your business Sign up for our newsletters Join our Community
  • Share

GignoSystem delivers National Geographic to wireless

SAN FRANCISCO--Mobile content aggregator GignoSystem America announced here at the CTIA Wireless IT and Entertainment conference a new licensing agreement with National Geographic to adapt the magazine’s globe-spanning anthropological content for wireless devices.

More on this Topic

Industry News

Blogs

Briefing Room

The branded service will include maps, videos and other content germane to National Geographic’s core mission, said Patrick Stanton, GignoSystem’s director of business development. Each week GignoSystem will spotlight a new nation in addition to interactive services like “Where Am I?” which uses visual and informational clues to test users’ knowledge of the world.

The National Geographic brand should appeal to an older, more male-oriented demographic than most wireless content, Stanton said.

Launched in Japan in 1994, GignoSystem now generates about $50 million in annual revenue. GignoSystem America made its debut in late 2002 via a partnership with AT&T Wireless; its carrier partners now also include Cingular Wireless, Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile. While the company has so far focused on photo and video content, Stanton said it plans to expand into mobile gaming in the year ahead.

Want to use this article? Click here for options!
© 2012 Penton Media Inc.

Learning Library

Featured Content

A time and money saving approach to fiber deployment

Service providers are under tremendous pressure to turn up new services faster then before and, at the same time, to do it at less expense - and intra-office fiber is one of the biggest challenges in terms of both cost and service turn-up.

The Latest

News

From the Blog

Briefingroom

Join the Discussion

Resources

Get more out of Connected Planet by visiting our related resources below:

Connected Planet highlights the next generation of service providers, as well as how their customers use services in new ways.

Subscribe Now

Back to Top