GoMobile 2009 is organized by CommTechAsia Sdn Bhd together with Multimedia Development Corporation (the custodian of MSC Malaysia) as its Strategic Partner and Maxis as Pinnacle Sponsor. Yellow Pages Malaysia is Diamond Sponsor and Ericsson is on board as Gold Sponsor. A host of other companies namely RRecords, Dapat Vista, Raffles International College, M3 Technologies, Cyberview Sdn Bhd, i-Pixel and Bitemark are also partnering to make this year’s edition of Malaysia’s Ultimate Mobile Lifestyle Event a thrilling, fun-filled and learning experience. 

According to CommTechAsia Director, Kashminder Singh said that GoMobile 2008 drew close to 60,000 visitors and this year he envisage a much larger crowd. 

“Not only will visitors enjoy great bargains and offers on handsets, accessories and packages, the GoMobile Expo will also feature daily mobile lifestyle fashion shows and appearances by music artistes. Visitors will experience mobile technology in action through mobile downloads of the show directory, Bluetooth based treasure hunts, text based registrations and more. Mobile World magazine is repeating its overwhelmingly successful promotion from last year by giving away free phones to the first 50 subscribers every day at the expo. It will be spectacular,” he added. 

“We at MDeC fully support GoMobile 2009 and hope that this showcase will encourage more Malaysians to leverage on mobile technologies to take their businesses operations to new heights as well enhance their own lifestyles,” said En. Kamil Othman, Vice President, Multimedia Development Corporation. 

Among the major activities planned at GoMobile 2009 include: 

Mobile Fashion
Mobile Fashion Shows daily in collaboration with Raffles International College. Visitors will vote via SMS to choose their favourite designs. 

Mobile Entertainment
An Entertainment Zone set up by RRecords with artiste appearances, listening stations and mobile downloads. RRecords is also created a special GoMobile theme song for the expo. 

Multimedia
Two photo competitions namely the Cyberjaya Mobile Photo competition in collaboration with Cyberview and the GoMobile Photo competition. In addition, a mobile video competition will be hosted by TrulyAsia.tv. 

CommTechAsia Director, Wemel Cumavoo added, “Through the holding of an expo, a conference and a gala dinner, GoMobile will act as a catalyst for the entire mobile ecosystem to move forward, from consumers to developers and vendors alike. They get to see the latest in mobile devices, experience how mobile broadband conveniences lifestyle and deliberate on the exciting future possibilities that advances in mobile technology will bring”. 

The GoMobile Conference has ‘Fast Forward For Mobile’ as its theme. It will focus on identifying emerging opportunities and openings and will cover all aspects of the mobile lifestyle, major trends and issues. Wemel said. “We will bring together entrepreneurs and senior executives from the mobile, ICT, internet, advertising and marketing industries together.” Attendance is by application and participants will get to attend the conference for free. 

The Mobile World Star Awards and Gala Dinner has become the premier celebration of the mobile industry In Malaysia.  Prestigious awards and recognitions spanning the entire industry will be presented at the gala dinner. It will be an exciting evening with performances and entertainment provided by RRecords.  

Go to www.GoMobile.my for more information. You can also watch short interview videos at www.mobile-world.tv.