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World première for sending hand-written messages by mobile phone

World première for sending hand-written messages by mobile phone Vodafone in Sweden will be the first operator in the world to offer its customers the possibility of sending hand-written texts or sketches digitally via mobile phones as e-mail, SMS or faxes. The service is called Vodafone Notera and will be launched 22 April in association with Anoto, Sony Ericsson, Esselte and 3M. Memos, letters, directions, phone numbers, declarations of love, indeed anything that people generally scribble down on paper, can now be sent digitally as e-mail, SMS or fax using the Vodafone Notera service. "We

Vodafone and Telenor Business Solutions AB conclude major deal with Orkla and Carlsberg

Vodafone and Telenor Business Solutions AB conclude major deal with Orkla and Carlsberg Today, Vodafone Sverige AB and Telenor Business Solutions AB, in co- operation with Telenor Business Solutions in Norway, are signing an agreement with the major consumer group Orkla and Carlsberg Breweries. The agreement, that has been co-ordinated by Telenor, is one of the biggest telecommunications agreements ever to be signed in the Nordic region. The contract that Telenor and its co-operation partners have signed will be offering Orkla and Carlsberg Breweries fully comprehensive telecommunications

Europolitan Vodafone is now Vodafone

Europolitan Vodafone is now Vodafone Europolitan Vodafone is today changing its brand name to Vodafone to elucidate the collaboration with the Vodafone group, the world's largest network for mobile communication. Information about the name change has been distributed for some time now. In upcoming months there will be a host of marketing activities, new services and special customer offers. "Our company has come a long way since its founding eleven years ago. It is a fantastic achievement to have joined the world's largest mobile network, a Group represented on five continents with over 200

Family offer from Europolitan Vodafone soon to hit ICA stores

Family offer from Europolitan Vodafone soon to hit ICA stores A unique concept in mobile telephony will be offered next year to Swedish grocery chain ICA's customers. The offer is being developed by Europolitan Vodafone and will directly target ICA's 2.8 million active card customers. The concept is being designed with families in mind. The family concept will include a wide range of basic services and will be easily available, either directly in ICA stores or via the Internet. The pricing structure will be adapted to suit families. "We are delighted to have found a partnership form that

Europolitan Vodafone to open GPRS roaming: Facilitates mobile communication for customers on the move

Europolitan Vodafone to open GPRS roaming: Facilitates mobile communication for customers on the move From 31 March this year, Europolitan Vodafone's customers will have access to their GPRS services in several European countries. Europolitan Vodafone has, via the Vodafone Group, signed a GPRS roaming agreement with Vodafone in the UK and Germany and Omnitel Vodafone in Italy. The company also expects to launch roaming services with additional operators in its European network in the coming months. For Europolitan Vodafone's customers, the international GPRS agreements will mean much faster

Europolitan Vodafone appeals the decision of PTS

Europolitan Vodafone to appeal against the decision of the Swedish National Post and Telecom Agency Europolitan Vodafone is today lodging an appeal against the Swedish National Post and Telecom Agency's (PTS) decision to classify Europolitan Vodafone as a mobile operator with "significant market power" - so-called SMP status - in the mobile and interconnect traffic markets. Europolitan Vodafone is demanding that the decision be reversed. "If PTS is to give SMP status to all mobile companies on principle and use authority decisions to set all interconnect traffic fees, this will in effect

Success for Europolitan Vodafone's operator-neutral Vasalopp service

Over 10,000 SMS enquiries Success for Europolitan Vodafone's operator-neutral Vasalopp service This year's Vasalopp ski race will be the first to allow audiences to follow the progress of each individual skier directly via SMS to their mobile phones. Even though only half the Vasalopp week has passed, the service has already been a tremendous success. Together with Mobile Relations, Europolitan Vodafone has produced the mobile service for the Vasalopp ski race, which has registered more than 10,000 SMS inquiries from customers who wish to follow the progress of friends and relatives as they

Europolitan Vodafone to appeal against ill-founded decision by the Swedish National Post and Telecom Agency

Europolitan Vodafone to appeal against ill-founded decision by the Swedish National Post and Telecom Agency The Swedish Post and Telecom Agency, PTS, today announced that Europolitan Vodafone is to be regarded as having "significant market power" status, (SMP) in the interconnect traffic market. Europolitan Vodafone considers this decision to be ill-founded. The company plans to lodge an appeal and request the cancellation of the decision. According to EU rules and the Swedish Telecommunications Act, a company shall be regarded as having significant market power when its market share

Inaccuracies in the Swedish Post and Telecom Agency's (PTS) press release

Inaccuracies in the Swedish Post and Telecom Agency's (PTS) press release In its press release dated 30 January 2002, PTS, The Swedish National Post and Telecom Agency, outlined its decision to order Telia to reduce its termination tariffs as of 1 March 2002. This press release contains misleading information about Europolitan Vodafone, stating that the company has not reduced its interconnect tariffs since 1999. In reality, Europolitan Vodafone has made substantial cuts to its interconnect tariffs, leading to a reduction of over 20% since 1999. In spite of the fact that PTS has access to

Europolitan Holdings AB reports nine months results with pre-tax income of SEK 1 439 million

Europolitan Holdings AB reports nine months results* with pre-tax income of SEK 1 439 million Net income of SEK 1 034 million 96 000 net customer additions Net sales of SEK 4 409 million EBITDA of SEK 1 899 million Pre-tax income for third quarter of SEK 471 million Launch of GPRS e-mail service First licence condition met - 3G network operational * Accounting year to 31 March Nine months results 2001/2002 Customer Growth Europolitan Vodafone's customer base increased to 1 109 000 as of 31 December 2001, including 294 000 (209 000) Europolitan Vodafone prepaid customers. A total of 96 000

Orange joins 3G Infrastructure Services AB as a third owner together with Europolitan Vodafone and Hi3G

Orange joins 3G Infrastructure Services AB as a third owner together with Europolitan Vodafone and Hi3G Today it is announced that Orange Sverige AB joins 3G Infrastructure Services AB (3GIS), the established UMTS-infrastructure joint venture between Europolitan Vodafone and Hi3G. 3GIS's objective is - for its owners - to build and operate an UMTS-infrastructure covering up to 70 percent of the total population in Sweden. "With Orange now joining our working partnership within 3G Infrastructure Services AB, we can reduce our 3G investments even further. This not only benefits both our

Europolitan Vodafone meets PTS deadline - 3G network opens in Karlskrona

Europolitan Vodafone meets PTS deadline - 3G network opens in Karlskrona Today, the Swedish mobile operator Europolitan Vodafone opened its 3G network in Karlskrona, thereby meeting the deadline set by PTS (the Swedish Post and Telecom Agency) as regards public access to 3G networks from 1 January 2002. "We are now able to provide functional base stations in Karlskrona and therefore consider that we have lived up to the requirements on the rollout of 3G networks from 1 January 2002 imposed by PTS," says Jon Risfelt, President and CEO of Europolitan Vodafone. The newly opened network was

Europolitan Vodafone changes its name to Vodafone

Europolitan Vodafone changes its name to Vodafone In April 2002, the Swedish mobile operator Europolitan Vodafone plans to change its name to Vodafone. This step is intended to underline the fact that the company is part of the world's largest mobile telecoms group. The name change is an integral part of the international profiling process initiated by Europolitan in February this year when it added Vodafone to its name. "We belong to the world's largest mobile network and this is the kind of decisive advantage that we are keen to emphasise even more clearly. Not only because our local

Europolitan Holdings AB announces Preliminary Reporting Dates for 2002/2003

Europolitan Holdings AB announces Preliminary Reporting Dates for 2002/2003 * Nine Months Report 25 January 2002 * Final Report 30 April 2002 * Annual General Meeting of Shareholders 25 June 2002 * First Quarter Report 8 August, 2002 * Half Year Report 18 October 2002 * Nine Months Report 30 January 2003 * Final Report 30 April 2003 Europolitan Holdings AB is the holding company of the mobile operator Europolitan Vodafone. The group operates a GSM network in Sweden and has a licence to build a 3G mobile telecoms network. Europolitan Vodafone employs some 1 500 people. Europolitan Holdings

Europolitan Holdings AB is undertaking a program to purchase its own shares

Europolitan Holdings AB is undertaking a program to purchase its own shares The board of Europolitan Holdings AB has decided to undertake the purchase of up to 2,000,000 shares in the Company, on one or several occasions, in accordance with the authorisation given by the shareholders' meeting on 26 June 2001, for the purpose of giving the Company increased possibilities to handle the employee option program decided at the same shareholders' meeting. Such purchases will be executed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange at a price per share within the registered spread available on each occasion, i.

Europolitan Vodafone and TietoEnator develop payment services for mobile phones

Europolitan Vodafone and TietoEnator develop payment services for mobile phones Starting next year, you will be able to pay for goods on your mobile phone. Entra, part of the TietoEnator Group, is developing a virtual payment card together with Europolitan Vodafone, and it is due to be launched in the first half of 2002. "The mobile phone is becoming an increasingly important tool in our everyday lives," says Jon Risfelt, President and CEO of Europolitan Vodafone. "Mobile payment solutions constitute a major step towards the realisation of our vision of providing our customers with services

Europolitan Vodafone's InfoManager makes working more efficient

Europolitan Vodafone's InfoManager makes working via mobile phones more efficient Europolitan Vodafone is now launching InfoManager, a service that will entail a fundamental change for businesses that want to make information available for their mobile customers or employees. "InfoManager will revolutionise the way our corporate customers do business. With InfoManager, business-critical information can be reached directly via a mobile phone, thereby helping our customers make their business more efficient," says Europolitan Vodafone's President and CEO, Jon Risfelt. There are many

Half Year* Results 2001/2002

Europolitan Holdings AB reports Half Year* results with pre-tax income of SEK 968 million · Net income of SEK 695 million · 59 000 net customer additions · Net Sales of SEK 2 923 million · EBITDA of SEK 1 269 million · Launch of Wireless Office for smaller companies * Accounting year to 31 March Half Year* Results 2001/2002 Customer Growth Europolitan Vodafone's customer base increased to 1 072 000 as of 30 September 2001, including 263 000 (209 000) active Europolitan Vodafone prepaid cards. A total of 59 000 (78 000) customers was added in the first half, being 33 000 contract customers (

New prices and new smart e-mail function make Europolitan Vodafone's GPRS services even more attractive

New prices and new smart e-mail function make Europolitan Vodafone's GPRS services even more attractive As of 1 November, Europolitan Vodafone's customers will be able to have their e-mails (*EuroMail) sent automatically to their GPRS-enabled mobile phones. In addition to this new e-mail function, Europolitan Vodafone is also adapting its GPRS price structure to suit all its customers, regardless of how much they use the service. This new smart function can be used on telephones with built-in e-mail programs and a so-called polling function that has only recently become available in the

Use your own voice to personalise your mobile phone

Use your own voice to personalise your mobile phone Europolitan Vodafone's customers can now use their own voices to listen to and download the most popular ring signals directly from Europolitan Vodafone's Voice Portal. Two popular services have been combined to create additional capabilities for Europolitan Vodafone's customers. Europolitan Vodafone's Voice Portal is continuing to expand its service offering and now includes downloadable, ready-to-use ring signals among its current selection of news, programme listings, wine tips and much more. Europolitan Vodafone's customers can choose

Europolitan Vodafone launches mobile football games

Try your luck as a football manager - Europolitan Vodafone launches mobile football games. It's always easy to say how a football team should be coached when you're sitting safely in the stands. But now you can really put your knowledge to the test by coaching your own team from your mobile phone - wherever you happen to be. Games that allow you to manage a football team both on and off the field are nothing new in the world of computer and TV games. These manager games have become extremely popular, as shown by their consistently high and increasing sales figures. Until now, however, they

Europolitan Vodafone and Nordic Alarm AB to develop wireless alarm services

Europolitan Vodafone and Nordic Alarm AB to develop wireless alarm services Europolitan Vodafone recently signed an agreement with Nordic Alarm AB whereby the companies will jointly develop wireless alarm communication solutions. This collaboration will enable users to enhance security at their homes and businesses in a simple and effective manner. Europolitan Vodafone and Nordic Alarm have been collaborating for some time and have now decided to formalise their partnership. The first products are due to be launched this autumn. The two companies will be jointly developing products focusing

Europolitan Vodafone and SOS Alarm collaborate on personal alarms in mobile telephones

Europolitan Vodafone and SOS Alarm collaborate on personal alarms in mobile telephones Exposed professional groups will now have access to an effective security alarm based on mobile telephony, which functions as both an alarm and an automatic positioning service in the event of danger and emergencies. The alarm will enhance security for people in vulnerable professions, and in time will also be offered to private individuals such victims of domestic violence, elderly people and people with functional impairments. Europolitan Vodafone and SOS Alarm AB have together developed the new mobile

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