The roaming was performed in live GSM networks using GPRS terminals running WAP-based services. A connection to internet services was also maintained across the GPRS network.

Roaming with GPRS is a fundamental requirement in order to make future global mobile internet services accessible around the world.

This and thousands more popular tunes will soon be ring tones following an agreement between Nokia and EMI Music Publishing for EMIs catalogue to be used for custom downloadable ring tones.

EMIs catalogue includes Robbie Williams The Spice Girls Matchbox 20 Sting Puff Daddy Aerosmith Lenny Kravitz Enrique Iglesias Janet Jackson TLC and Phil Collins.

Nokia will provide a service to owners of mobile phones whereby they can download additional ring tones for their mobile phones. EMI will license the use of ring tones to Nokia on a non-exclusive worldwide basis.

The initial service will contain well-known songs television and film themes and will be added to with additional famous titles on a regular basis. The ring tones will be available from the Internet via Club Nokia.

The ring tone can be downloaded either by sending a short message to a specific telephone number.

Ring tones can also be provided for promotional purposes and be sponsored.

Ilkka Raiskinen vice president mobile applications and services at Nokia said:

The soundtrack to peoples lives is about to change. ring tones are here to stay. The large selection of tunes will allow people to stand out with their own set of personalised songs which will be unique and tailor-made for every occasion mood and lifestyle. Nokia invented the concept of downloadable ring tones and we have seen how enormously popular these have become around the world. With EMI Music Publishing we are now taking the next step to develop ring tones into an effective global media for promoting music.

Headquartered in Finland Nokia is listed on the New York [NOK]

Helsinki Stockholm London Frankfurt and Paris stock exchanges and employs more than 60 000 people

Jamie Wayland (19) is charged with robbing Philip Ormond of his phone between Woolwich Arsenal and Maze Hill railway stations on May 31 using force.

A 14-year-old a 17-year-old girl and 16-year-old boy face the same charge but cannot be named.

All three are also accused of assaulting Salvatore Fiordellisi causing him actual bodily harm on May 19 at Charlton train station.

The 16-year-old is also charged with stealing a carrier bag containing two video tapes at the same time and place.

Debenhams customers will be offered a choice of networks and a free three-year Carphone Warehouse warranty instead of the standard 12 months.

The Carphone Warehouse has trained Debenhams mobile sales people.

Martin Hudson external business director at Debenhams said:

Introducing The Carphone Warehouse into 92 stores will strengthen our recently launched media and entertainment offer.

With over 10 years market experience The Carphone Warehouse were the obvious company to work with.

Jonathan Hook marketing head at The Carphone Warehouse said:

Were thrilled to be working with Debenhams. We both share a common commitment to providing the best possible service value and choice to customers.

Project Telecom was set up in 1987.

It is widening its range of services to include fixed line resale short-term rental satellite paging international calling cards WAP and many other value-added services.

It claims to have around 41000 subscribers mainly on Vodafone from blue-chip clients such as News International and the Royal Air Force.

Project Telecom plans to use the money to open up new pre-pay services to include internet access utility payments and pay-per-view television.

The capital raised will also help finance a roll-out of Project Telecom business centres in areas such as Manchester Bristol Newcastle and Glasgow.

Project Telecom will also be investing in electronic top-up systems.

All participating Mainline dealers have to do is connect as many new customers as possible to the Orange network between now and December 31.

Points are awarded per connection. A new contract gets three points. A Boxed & Ready two points and one point for a Just Talk.

The top three dealers will win the holiday next May in Tokyo and Kyoto. Mainline has just moved into a 12000 square foot building that cost 1.5 million.

Each package includes a Motorola handset and accessories pack free CD Walkman and connection to Vodafone.

The offer is available to all Britannia Music members and follows the launch of Celltalks new consumer brand ClubMobile (Mobile News August 2) and is one of a series of affinity agreements that have included Breathe.net and Cheekymonkey.com.

We are keen to develop a number of new affinity partnerships in order to grow our business further. Britannia Music is just one of many affinities we expect to sign over the next few months said joint managing director Jess Meredith-Watts.

Celltalk is AIM-listed. It claims to be the UKs largest contract dealer for Orange and connects more than eight per cent of the Orange contract base each year.

Britannia says it is one of the largest mail order clubs in Europe with more than two million members.

They are Paul Farrell (account manager) Nigel Whitehead (retail manager) Tricia Rich (head of marketing) and Mark Kennedy (quality control manager).

Farrell joins Ora from Philips. Whitehead was from PC World. Rich moves from Mitsubishi Electric and Kennedy has been promoted internally from quality assurance supervisor.

The 3.2 million includes 900000 for subscriber debtors. Netnet sales for 2000 were approximately 12 million.

Newgate is a subsidiary of the US alternative telco World Access which filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy in the US.

Project Telecom has acquired 20000 Netnet subscribers from the receivers and liquidators of Newgate.

Netnet supplied telecommunications services to corporate accounts and SMEs. The acquisition brings Project Telecoms total subscriber base to to around140000.

We expect that the Netnet acquisition will enhance earnings in the current year said Tim Radford Project Telecoms chief executive.

The development of the corporate services division is driving our strategy to grow rapidly as a virtual network operator and we continue to look for opportunities to expand the business both organically and through acquisition.

During the first half of 2001 Project Telecoms won corporate contracts from companies such as Arriva East Riding Council Investec and Northern Foods. In March the company announced the acquisition for 14 million of the corporate subscriber base of Hutchison Cellular Services.

This follows Chestergates failure to settle a county Court Judgment made against the company in the Clerkenwell County Court on May 2 following non-payment of two advertisements that appeared in Mobile News last June and August.

The Warrant of Execution means court bailiffs will now sedquestrate goods from Chestergate and sell them at auction to pay the debt.

The advertisements were for a mobile comms exhibition Chestergate was trying to launch at the NEC in Birmingham but which never took place. They were placed by Chestergate executive Justin Bird.

Chestergate Exhibitions originally defended the summons issued against them on the grounds that the invoices raised had not been sent to the correct division.

But the company failed to appear at the five-minute hearing in which District Judge Stary issued the Judgment against Chestergate.

Chestergate said its show had not been cancelled but merely postponed.

Yet there have been no ann-ouncements about a second date.