The Vodafone Group announced a service that will allow its mobile customers to view and upload videos to YouTube. This week similar deals were made by Vodafone with social networking website MySpace and auction site eBay. The YouTube service will initially be available to Vodafone's UK customers, which will be able to view select videos, forward links of videos and upload and search for videos.

Vodafone is Europe's largest mobile phone company, while YouTube was bought by search engine giant Google for $1.65bn in October last year.

The three new services launched by Vodafone in partnership with YouTube, eBay and MySpace will be available within Vodafone Live, the operator's mobile portal.

written by Robert M.