Archive for September 26th, 2008

Facebook: Another First For Telenor? Not Really.

Published by Babar Bhatti on September 26, 2008 under Mobile Content, Mobile Phones, Social Networks, User Generated Content, Value Added Services, blogging

Spotted this puzzling bit on the Telenor site.

Telenor has introduced a score of industry-first Value Added Services for its customers. Keeping in line with the innovative tradition, Telenor brings you yet another industry first service. In order to facilitate an ever growing population of facebook users, we have successfully integrated with Facebook !

Now upload pictures to your Facebook accounts directly from your mobile phones by simply sending them to mobile@facebook.com via MMS.

Really? See this screen from Facebook mobile. Any user of facebook can register their mobile phone and upload media by sending email to mobile@facebook.com. That email address is not unique to Telenor. I don’t get the “integration” part. Come on Telenor, you owe us some explanation!