Europolitan and Kipling enter strategic partnership within positioning

Europolitan and Kipling enter strategic partnership within positioning Europolitan and Kipling are deepening their collaboration within positioning. A new partnership agreement has been signed whereby, in an initial stage, Kipling will be upgrading MOTION, a positioning system for GSM. During the autumn 1999, Europolitan launched a GSM-based positioning service. The collaboration with Kipling is now enabling Europolitan to develop and refine geographic position based services. "Positioning via MOTION gives us major advantages and enables us to offer our customers flexible services based on different positioning solutions," says Magnus Forsband, Vice President, Engineering and Operations, at Europolitan. "Positioning is a high-priority area for us, and our efforts to develop personally tailored services for our customers within this field have been underway for some time. The collaboration agreement with Kipling is another step in the right direction," says Mikael Kluge, Vice President, Marketing, at Europolitan. The agreement also means that Europolitan will be assisting Kipling by acting as a reference client for international deals. "The fact that Kipling now has positioning platform supplier status is very important to Kipling's international expansion," says Gustaf Ekberg, President and CEO of Kipling. Europolitan AB is a Swedish GSM operator that prioritises service and quality. The company's head office is in Karlskrona, Sweden. Europolitan is a leader in the field of technically advanced services for GSM 900/1800. The Europolitan Group, which also includes the stock market listed parent company Europolitan Holdings AB and Europolitan AB's sister companies, Europolitan Stores AB and Doberman AB, has around 1,000 employees. For more information please visit www.europolitan.se. Kipling is an independent telecoms consulting company. The company's business concept is to offer telecoms expertise and systems solutions to the telecoms market. Operations are run at five subsidiaries, Kipling Information Technology AB with offices in TelecomCity (Karlskrona) and Stockholm, Kipling System Integration in Gothenburg, Kipling Mobile Business in Lund, Kipling Systems AB and Kipling Information Technology Ltd in London. Since June 1998, Kipling shares have been quoted on Nya Marknaden (the New Market). For more information please visit www.kipling.se. For further information, please contact: Magnus Forsbrand, Vice President, Engineering and Operations, Europolitan AB, Phone: + 46 708 33 10 41, e-mail: magnus.forsbrand@europolitan.se Gustaf Ekberg, President and CEO, Kipling Holding AB, Phone: +46 709 37 95 36, e-mail: gustaf.ekberg@kipling.se ------------------------------------------------------------ Please visit http://www.bit.se for further information The following files are available for download: http://www.bit.se/bitonline/2000/03/30/20000330BIT00420/bit0001.doc http://www.bit.se/bitonline/2000/03/30/20000330BIT00420/bit0002.pdf