Mobile phone operator benefit a lot from the social networking site

The world top 10 social networking site ranked on 2008:
1. Myspace
2. Facebook
3. Bebo
4. BalckPlanet.com
5. Club Penguin
6. Gaiaonline.com
7. myYearbook
8. hi5
8. Classmates
10. Yahoo! 360
The top 2 have launched the mobile phone version and it makes their community grow even more fast and the operator benefit also more from it.

The social networking site can of course benefit from the advertising, the operator benefit from more ARPU, since the user would login online to reply text, upload photo, music, files, chatting etc. It consume a lot of the bandwidth. And some of the operator are even provide the free SMS for their social networking subscribers. It's also for encouraging the user to login more online. Since the SMS investment from the operator have gained back.

MySpace have co-operated with Alltel, AT & T, Boost Mobile, Celular One/Dobson, Helio, Sprint, T-Mobile USA, Virgin Mobile and Verizon Mobile, it uses the MySpace Mobile alert service which allow the MySpace users free to receive the SMS as soon as any news updated in their MySpace account. The users can click into the link sent from that SMS to login online to their MySpace account for mobile phone online checking the info. And such mobile phone version MySpace is not free, some of them need to pay for USD2.99 renting monthly, some of them 1.5 Pound, some of them 5CAD, some of them USD1.99 monthly etc subjected to the different operators. Of course also some of them are free.

For Facebook, they also co-operate with north American operator and part of the European operator for the m.facebook.com. The operators includes Alliant, AT & T, Bell Mobility, Boost Mobile, Fido, MTS, O2, Rogers, SaskTel, Sprint, Telus, Verizon Wireless, Virgin Mobile, Canada, Virgin Mobile USA, Vodafone etc. And in 2008, there is also launched the Balackberry facebook where more than 1 million download of it in the first 3 months.