Applications and software for mobile phones aren’t a new thing altogether. Back in the late 90s, smartphone enthusiasts were downloading and installing apps onto their phones. Then, there were only stores such as handango and getjar, catering to symbian,windows mobile and palm platforms. Most carriers and manufacturers often practise “walled gardens” where they don’t allow 3rd party apps to be installed easily. Also, it wasn’t easy to load the app onto your phone if you had zero tech knowledge.

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Malaysia's fourth cellular operator, U Mobile commercially launched its 3G service about 18 months ago in April 2008. In March 2008, a month before its commercial launch, U Mobile had launched its Surf with U HSDPA (high-speed downlink packet access) wireless broadband service, providing competition to established giants, Maxis and Celcom.

In November that year, U Mobile introduced Mobile Live TV, the country's first mobile TV service based on the DVB-H (Digital Video Broadcast – Handheld) standard. Unlike mobile TV provided by its competitors, DVB-H is received on specially enabled phone bypassing the network, much like regular free-to-air and satellite TV, and it only uses the cellular network for backward traffic such as selections and feedback by its viewers.