Mobile industry leaders from over 30 countries will gather in Helsinki, Finland, and St. Petersburg, Russia, at MobileMonday Global Summit 2007, one of the most significant worldwide industry events. The three-day event taking place in Helsinki on September 10 will continue in St. Petersburg on September 11-12 and gather over over 1500 participants.

The Ukrainian Chapter of international community of mobile industry professionals Mobile Monday announces the start of long-term cooperation with IT-specialized consulting agency LestniZZa. The cooperation promises to become a vivid example of effective mutual activity that will help the leading employers in advanced search of employees throughout Ukraine, and applicants – in search of job opportunities.

The students-winners of the Mobile Monday Contest that was sponsored by QArea in three Kharkiv technical universities on May 14-21 had a chance to visit the Mobile Monday Conference in Kiev on May 28. Now Igor Minyajlo from Kharkiv National University of Radioelectronics (KhNURE), Alexander Geraschenko from National Aerospace University “Kharkiv Aviation Institute” (KhAI) and Oleg Ilnitskiy representing National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnical Institute" (NTU "KhPI") share their impressions and answer our questions after visiting the event.

QArea is going to sponsor a quiz for the students-programmers of the senior courses in a number of Kharkov universities. The students will be offered to answer a set of questions testing their knowledge of programming science and level of understanding of telecommunication industry in Ukraine. Starting from May 14 the quiz will be held first in National Technical University "Kharkov Polytechnical Institute" (NTU "KhPI"), following Kharkov National University of Radioelectronics (KhNURE) and National Aerospace University “Kharkov Aviation Institute” (KhAI). The listed universities are the part of intellectual core of the country and prepare hundreds of IT and telecom specialists annually. Students who show the deepest knowledge of the Ukrainian mobile industry and give the most precise answers will be awarded with a trip to Mobile Monday conference on May 28 in Kiev.

Since June 2006 Mobile TV has been successfully operating in Germany making a new chapter in the history of German broadcasting when first-class TV reception is available on handheld devices everywhere. The creator of this new era is Mobiles Fernsehen Deutschland GmbH. As Germany’s first mobile TV provider MFD holds broadcasting licenses for the DMB standard (Digital Multimedia Broadcasting) for the entire country. In cooperation with such TV channels as ZDF, MTV, ProbSieben.Sat.1 Media AG, the first German mobile TV provider is growing its subscribers' database successfully.

Mobile TV is gaining a greater popularity year by year, thus, 2007 is supposed to become a year of broad implementation of mobile TV globally. There are several reasons for that. First of all it is introduction and development of 3G networks (high speed wireless data transfer technologies of third generation). Second, mobile terminals manufacturers offer a wide choice of devices capable of transmitting TV. Besides, high speed processors and displays of high resolution provide video reproduction of rather high quality.

Mobile Monday Community continues its rapid pace across the planet with new local Chapters appearing each month and uniting more and more mobile professionals in every part of the world. Next month the MoMo Community will finally be open for Taipei, the world famous city for mobile phones.

Telecommunication market in Ukraine has been recently demonstrating dynamic growth and high saturation of events. Last year the company Ukrainian Telesystems started to develop the first Ukrainian 3G network under PEOPLEnet brand. For the moment the operator’s services are already available for the citizens of Kiev, Dnepropetrovsk, Odessa and Kharkov.

Mobile Monday Germany was launched on December 4, 2006 with the opening event of the Düsseldorf Chapter which gathered around 120 participants and put Germany right at the heart of the Global Mobile Monday movement, as the organizers claim. A great selection of speakers and a furious round of non-stop networking, accompanied by refreshments provided by the event sponsors, AdMob, O2, Deutsche Post and Tecon Terenci made the event unforgettable for all its visitors. The new season of MoMo Düsseldorf events opened on February 26 with the Mobile Social Software chosen as a topic of the first in 2007 conference.