February 8, 2004
MOBS VIDEO, the world's first free mobile video website
Ringtonia reports on an interesting article in San Mateo County Times on Alexander Amosu, dubbed "Lord of the Ring Tones", who was one of the first to tap into the ring tone trend when he founded R 'n' B Ringtones three years ago, but of interest to this column is that Amosu has recently launched MOBS VIDEO, "the world's first free mobile video website, a new and exciting way to receive video content sent to your phone free of charge to most countries around the world".
"We're mostly selling bloopers and comedy images -- things like a monkey picking his nose -- while I try to get the rights to music videos," he said. "You can see the monkey for about $2.75. Mobs video also offers Adult Movies, Animal videos, Cartoons, Comedy, TV Commercials, Education, Movie Trailers, Music Videos, Short Movies and Sports highlights.
"What I really hope to do is find investors to put together a mobile TV channel so that people can subscribe and have access to films, soaps, and other programming, and then watch them on their phones," he said.
When asked whether he really believes people will watch a TV show on their phone, Amosu looked stunned.
"Of course they will," he said, patiently explaining that anyone with time to kill would jump at the chance to catch up on their favorite shows.
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