Info2cell.com brings Cartoon Network to mobile users in the Arab world

Info2cell.com, the leading Mobile Application Service Provider in the Middle East, has joined forces with Turner Broadcasting System to deliver content services from Cartoon Network to the growing number of young mobile subscribers across the Arab world.

Info2cell.com will provide subscribers with Java games, wallpapers, themes and ringtones from cartoon Network. Info2cell.com will leverage its WASP platform, which is interconnected to 27 mobile operators in the Middle East, to ensure that Cartoon Network services are available to subscribers throughout the region, including in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, Syria Yemen and Iraq.

“We expect Cartoon Network’s content offerings to be an instant hit with mobile subscribers in the Arab world, especially amongst the tech-savvy youth who constitute a fair percentage of the region’s population,” said Bashar Dahabra, Founder and CEO, Info2cell.com.

Info2cell.com offers the most advanced mobile messaging technology to enable content providers to deliver messages and data to mobile phones, including SMS, MMS, WAP, IVR, video, ringtones, picture messaging, animations and Java games. Info2cell.com’s WASP platform provides potential access to over 25 mln mobile phone subscribers in the Middle East and Africa region.

A 115 minutes block has been scheduled on different Cartoon Network feeds. The block is down-linked by the operator/ aggregator, digitised into a compatible format and then pushed out onto the operator network. The content is looped throughout the day to create a 24 hour channel and refreshed daily. The content compromise of CNO shows only.

Cartoon Network Mobile TV is currently available in the UK on Vodafone, Sky by Mobile, Orange, 3 and ROK TV. In the rest of Europe it’s available on 3 Italy, TMN Portugal and Vodafone Ireland.

There are 17 Cartoon Network Java games available on 70 operators throughout EMEA. The games are compatible with Java enabled handsets and are created by Glu mobile. There are approximately 180 wallpapers and 12 ringtones compatible with WAP, Java and imode phones.