[Mickey Maniac]

I just saw Nextel now offers Ring tones, I got the Mickey Mouse March, its not too bad, now they need to get Disney Wallpapers

[angielovesjohn]

I had to go and buy me a new phone since my other one just completed bit the dust on me. I have mine through Sprint. I haven't checked out the ring tones yet but they have some pretty good Disney wallpapers. I got a really pretty one, it's Cinderella's Castle in the background and it looks like it's floating in the clouds. It has really soft colors on it too. It almost looks like a watercolor painting. I wished I could post the picture here, but it would let me . So if you've got Sprint go check it out!!!

[WEDINDISNEY]

Thanks so much. I have been waiting for nextel to finally come around. Im off to the nextel site...

[Disneyguru]

Thanks a lot MM iv'e been waiting for that. where did you find them nextels site??

[DarthTortoise]

Disney is going to sell their very own phones with all sorts of games, pictures, sounds, etc:

Disney Plans U.S. Wireless Phone Service for Families

Company partners with Sprint to offer Disney Mobile handsets and entertainment content.

Wednesday, July 06, 2005
The Walt Disney Company's Internet Group, in partnership with Sprint, plans to establish a nationwide wireless phone service, dubbed Disney Mobile, in the United States, the company announced Wednesday. Using Sprint's PCS network, the service--which specifically targets families--is due to begin operations next year.

Simultaneously, Disney is planning to develop exclusive handsets and entertainment content aimed at families, the company said in a press release.

"We'll be in investment mode for the next several years, but expect that over the long run this initiative will generate solid financial returns for the company," Steve Wadsworth, president of Walt Disney Internet Group (WDIG), said in the release. Disney will be responsible for all aspects of the service, including customer relations, billing, and product development.

Disney had been rumored to be looking at Nextel Communications as the wireless carrier for Disney Mobile, according to Eddie Hold, an analyst at Current Analysis. That the company is going with Sprint reflects the different focuses of Nextel and Sprint as the companies get closer to completing their planned multibillion dollar merger. Sprint is clearly concentrating on consumers, while Nextel directs its attention to business customers, Hold said.


Expanding Service
The Disney Mobile deal will be the latest for Sprint in a number of MVNO (mobile virtual network operator) linkages where a company pays the wireless operator for use of its network while branding and managing the service itself.

In December 2004, Disney's ESPN sports media unit announced plans to launch a branded wireless service and cell phone, also running on Sprint's network.

"Pricing is flattening out on the voice side," making it extremely hard for mobile operators to make money, Hold said. So, instead companies are turning their attention to business opportunities where they can use an established brand or established content--or both--as market leverage. In the case of Disney Mobile, the company could provide Cinderella headsets with Cinderella content, including ring tones and screen savers.

"The downside [with the Disney deal] is that it also limits content to that from Disney," said Hold. He pointed to the planned Amp'd Mobile service, which is not tied to any specific content provider and targets Verizon mobile network users who are between the ages of 16 and 35. Due to launch this fall, Amp'd uses Verizon's mobile network and was previewed at the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association's Wireless show in March in New Orleans.

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[disneyguy]

Awweee... Darth beat me to it. I saw that article the other day and I was just like... eh? Seems a little bizzare to me.

[Mickey Maniac]

Originally Posted by Disneyguru

Thanks a lot MM iv'e been waiting for that. where did you find them nextels site??

Here is a link to actaully download them you will need to sign in to your nextel acct, but you can listen to them.

Sorry it took so long to get back.

http://nextel.zingy.com/prLabels.php

[Disneyguru]

Originally Posted by Mickey Maniac

Here is a link to actaully download them you will need to sign in to your nextel acct, but you can listen to them.

Sorry it took so long to get back.

http://nextel.zingy.com/prLabels.php

Thanks again I like them.