mmO2 RECORDS BEST EVER QUARTER FOR MOBILE DATA GROWTH

mmO2 has recorded its best ever quarter for mobile data growth in the three months to the end of December 2002. The company broke previous records for text messaging (SMS) and has maintained its position as market leader in the UK, it doubled the number of GPRS active users across its territories and reported encouraging early progress for its new interactive services – Java games and multimedia messaging (MMS). Peter Erskine, chief executive officer, mmO2, said: “Data as a proportion of service revenues increased to 17.7% from 15.6% in the last quarter, underpinning our leading position in this expanding market and ahead of our stated target of 16% of service revenues from mobile data by the end of this financial year.” www.mmo2.com