one2one has teamed up with Israeli software specialist GEO to look into providing video emails over GSM mobile phones. The UK's smallest national GSM network operator will conduct a trial with a group of what it calls 'heavy-airtime' customers, to canvass opinions on the ease of sending and receiving video transmissions.

The proposed service would use GEO's Emblaze Messaging technology while GEO partner Planet Online is to provide the back-end hosting and communications bandwidth facilities.

Adi Diament, GEO executive VP product development, said: "The quality is reasonable. For talking heads, you can get about five frames per second over a 9.6Kbps [GSM data rate] connection."

Henry Harrison, senior consultant at Schema, said: "There are so many business plans out there right now for mobile operators that depend on the use of video. The operators have to be seen to be doing something, and testing technology out."

So now you won't just get the latest score, you'll be able to see the goals!

Anna Lagerkvist