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Iobox
 NEWS FROM THE STANDARD
Paying for Wireless Content
Aug 03 2001 08:43 AM PDT

 PROFILE
Inside Iobox, wireless Internet users can find instant messaging, e-mail, chat, address books, and calendar applications for handheld electronic devices. The Iobox portal also features ringing tones, icons, games, and mobile commerce. Iobox boasts about 1 million registered users, although around 300,000 are active. Its content includes news, weather, and stock quotes; its e-commerce includes auctions. Vendors include telecom provider Telia, online auctioneers eBay and QXL ricardo, CNN Sweden, and the Finnish hockey league. Iobox offers customization, integration, and hosting to its corporate customers. Terra Mobile, a joint venture of Spanish phone giant Telefónica Móviles and its Internet giant Terra Networks, owns Iobox.

 COMPETITION
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 FINANCIAL OVERVIEW
Employees: 150

 KEY PEOPLE
• Jari Ovaskainen
    CEO
• James Geddes
    CFO

 CONTACT INFO
10 Lower Grosvenor Place
London SW1W 0EN, United Kingdom
Phone: 44-20-7798-6900
Fax: 44--
Online: Web Site

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