O2
announces Reuters agreement for XDA
O2 today announces strategic agreement with Reuters
for its XDA
22 July 2003
O2 today announced a major strategic agreement with
global information company Reuters for its combined colour PDA
and mobile handset - the xda from O2. Reuters will provide an
initial 1000 of its financial market customers in the UK and Germany
with the xda, enabling them to access the latest market information
whilst on the move using its Reuters 3000 Xtra Companion service.
Reuters 3000 Xtra Companion provides the latest
financial information, news, charts, and share prices over PDA
devices, enabling financial market professionals to access market
information whilst away from their desks or offices. It also provides
quote lists from Reuters flagship product, Reuters 3000 Xtra,
plus related market quotes and analysis. Reuters 3000 Xtra Companion
is exclusively available to Reuters 3000 Xtra customers.
Reuters and O2 have worked together to pre-configure the xda
with Reuters 3000 Xtra Companion for complete ease of use - customers
can access the service immediately via the xda web browser. The
pages are fully optimised for the xda. Customers will also be
able to access the service when abroad, via O2's extensive GPRS
international roaming service. This includes Singapore, Hong Kong,
Germany, France, the Netherlands and Australia.
In addition to Reuters 3000 Xtra Companion, the xda from O2 offers
full colour internet access, web-based email, extensive mobile
phone capabilities and personal organiser features such as 'contacts'
and 'calendar'.
Christopher Hagman, Managing Director, Global Sales, Reuters,
commented: "Financial market professionals know the importance
of accessing up to the minute market information, anytime, anywhere.
Making Reuters 3000 Xtra Companion available over the xda from
O2 helps make this a reality. We selected the xda from O2 because
of its ease of use and its extensive roaming capability."
Kent Thexton, Chief Marketing and Data Officer, mmO2 plc, commented:
"We are delighted to be working with Reuters. This is a real
example of how mobile data is coming of age to deliver tangible
business benefits, and applications like this will contribute
towards our target of 25% of service revenues from data by end
2004."
Sales of the xda continue to show steady growth - to date more
than 66,0002devices have been sold in the UK, Germany, Ireland
and Asia Pacific. As well as winning excellent reviews, xda users
are using its functionality to the full and are consistently mmO2's
heaviest data users.
O2
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