Category: World
Service
Date: 02.08.2004
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The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ has joined forces with Cosmote, Greece's leading telecommunications
company, and the Greek media group, Imako Media SA, to launch its international
news content and breaking news alerts on the new i-mode platform for
mobile phones in Greece.
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Starting in August, the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ news headlines and summaries, in Greek
and English, along with breaking news alerts in English will be displayed
on an i-mode platform hosted by the Greek mobile operator, Cosmote and
provided by Imako Media SA.
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The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ content has been made available to the i-mode subscribers
in Greece following an agreement with Imako Media SA.
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The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ site is added to the list of sites in i-mode's News/Weather
category provided in Greece exclusively by Cosmote.
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Head of Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service Business Development, Miles Palmer, welcomed
the development as a step towards an even more innovative and comprehensive
internet mobile service for Greece:
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"The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ has a lot to offer to mobile phone subscribers in Greece.
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"Through i-mode we will be able to provide them with breaking
news alerts and distinctive, authoritative, reliable and impartial news
and current affairs content, updated every five minutes, 24 hours a
day, in Greek and English."
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Notes to Editors
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Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service
broadcasts programmes around the world in 43 languages and is available
on radio and online.
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It has a global audience of 146 million listeners.
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Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service is available globally on short wave; on FM in more
than 135 capital cities; and selected programmes are carried on around
2,000 FM and MW radio stations around the world.
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English language programmes are available in Greece on Athens International
Radio Air 104.4 FM.
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Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Greek Service delivers news and current affairs programmes across
Greece and Cyprus and to Greek speakers around the world on both radio
and the internet.
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It broadcasts nearly 10 hours of news and current affairs programmes
weekly as well as in-depth, specially tailored series to partner stations.
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Key partners are Skai 100.3 FM in Greece and Antenna 102.7 and 103.7FM
in Cyprus.
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bbcgreek.com provides coverage of news and current events, culture
and sports, along with interactive content and audio.
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Imako Media SA is one of Greece's leading media groups focusing on
lifestyle media.
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The company has established a leading position in the domestic media
industry including publishing, radio broadcasting and printing as well
as interactive solutions and mobile applications and services.
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It also operates one of Greece's leading radio stations, Nitro Radio
102.5, and actively participates in the sector of interactive services,
mobile applications and mobile content via its business unit, Imako
Interactive - one of Greece's leading providers of mobile marketing
campaigns, applications and mobile content catering to telecommunications
as well as consumer goods companies.
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Cosmote Mobile Telecommunications SA is a member of the OTE group.
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Currently it has approximately 4 million customers in Greece with the
leading market position, owns the leading mobile operator in Albania
(AMC) and manages OTE's mobile assets in Bulgaria (Globul) and Macedonia
(Cosmofon).
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Both the Company's EBITDA margin (above 42%) and net profit margin
(above 18%) remain consistently among the top three in Europe.
