Vodafone planning multimedia services

Vodafone’s new service – to be known as Vodafone Live! – will be launched across Europe in October including the UK, Netherlands and Italy to combine with Vodafone’s launch of their MMS service. Rumours suggested that this is the end of the line for Vizzavi – a much speculated ‘happy ending’ for the rather disastrous voyage into the world of mobile data embarked upon by the marriage made in the world of corporate debt – Vodafone and Vivendi. However (and unfortunately in the view of W2Forum), much to the chagrin of Vodafone’s shareholders, Vizzavi will actually feature as one of the menu choices on the Live! service. Other features will include Java gaming, IM and MMS.