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Amp'd Mobile Reports Mobile Numbers

Los Angeles-based youth mobile phone operator Amp'd Mobile has announced rough subscriber numbers, saying today that it has nearly reached 200,000 subscribers. Amp'd said today that it signed up an additional 84,000 new subscribers in the first quarter of 2007, and that it is receiving more than $100 average revenue per user on those subscriptions. Amp'd reports that its original content now consists of 5% of its content offerings, but is resulting in 30% of overall downloads; the firm has been focusing on original content programming including mobile series and live sports coverage.