Telecommunications-related introductions in 2008

Roku (ROH-koo) is a brand of consumer electronics that includes streaming players, smart TVs (and their operating systems), as well as a free TV streaming service. The brand is owned by Roku, Inc., an American company.

Area codes 714 and 657 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan for the southern part of the U.S. state of California. The numbering plan area comprises northern Orange County, a portion of Los Angeles County, and the Sleepy Hollow and Carbon Canyon areas of Chino Hills in San Bernardino County. Area code 714 was assigned to a part of numbering plan area 213 in 1951, and 657 was added in 2008 to form an overlay complex.

CMPak Limited, doing business as Zong (Urdu: زونگ), is a Pakistani mobile data network operator, owned by China Mobile.

Area codes 587, 825, and 368 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the entire Canadian province of Alberta. They form an overlay with area code 403 of southern Alberta, and northern Alberta's 780. The province-wide overlay complex made ten-digit dialing mandatory throughout the province.

Warid Congo SA was a GSM based mobile operator in the Republic of the Congo before its acquisition by Indian telecom company Airtel. It launched commercial operations on March 14, 2008.

RTL 24 started as a mobile TV news channel on 5 June 2008. It was available through KPN DVB-H. Its broadcast as a mobile TV channel stopped when KPN ceased its DVB-H services on 1 June 2011.