In-Touch has its own business centres in Bournemouth Gillingham Southampton and Winchester and already supports franchise operations in Christchurch Lymington New Milton and Armesbury.

A creditors meeting will be held in London this Thursday (June 15). Benefon UK managing partner Mike Crompton commented.

It wont affect future plans. If we cant work with Fishtank there are other agencies we can work with.

Crompton says Benefon is preparing to launch its new ESC handset which features built in GPS positioning software and downloadable maps.

They are Dudley Eustace (finance director of Royal Philips Electronics) Doug Dunn (president of ASM Lithography) and Simon Roper (former general manager of the Asia Pacific arm of CellStar Corporation).

Bredesen who worked for Philips after leaving Motorola is now chief executive of Swedish television company Tandberg.

He spent almost 20 years in the telecom industry starting at Siemens.

His is last assignment was sales director for Motorolas Personal Communications Sector.

Following a recent survey by Peramon where corporate senior decision makers expressed their opinions on mobile internet technology deployment 47 per cent agreed that the most likely mobile technology to be deployed this year is actually SMS.

David Townsend Peramons managing director said:

Businesses should prepare for GPRS but while theyre waiting for the technology to deliver SMS can impact the corporate bottom line immediately. Many are overlooking the investment already made in SMS technology currently available in all GSM handsets. By taking SMS seriously businesses can drive down the cost of their mobile communication at the same time as increasing employee productivity.

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The TV radio outdoor and magazine campaign has the line We Include Everyone and attempts to show customers that they can have a one2one with anyone.

Everyone 100 enables users to call any UK network free from their monthly call allowance. The campaign is by Bartle Bogle Hegarty.

7000 dealers will receive the pack by July 2 in time for launch of the film that took $36m in its opening weekend in the States.

The film will be shown in over 450 screens from July 6th giving it blockbuster status.

Ericsson products including the Bluetooth headset and R310 mobile phone feature heavily in the film.

Brand manager Lindsay James said Ericsson deliberately featured product in the film that consumers could go out and buy.

We learned a lesson from our involvement in the 1997 Bond Movie Tomorrow Never Dies because consumers went to stores looking to buy the special concept smartphone.

In Tomb Raider Lara uses everyday Ericsson products to complete her mission.

James said the promotion would raise Ericssons image after a troublesome year.

We are still selling phones. We want people to see we are a young funky brand.

Music and gaming will drive content in the future. We want to team up with Sony in the best possible position and we are strengthening our relationship with One 2 One.

The customised T20e phone features special Tomb Raider start up and shut down graphics and ringtones. Ericsson is shipping a Tomb Raider PC game handsfree kit and secret symbols in the pack.

It will sell for 89.99 on pre-pay or 19.99 on contract.

Consumers will be able to take part in a secret symbols collector scheme with specially branded merchandise and a Land Rover adventure trip as prizes.

Jay and Vimal Paus subsidiary Blue-I (formerly Fone Range Partnerships) which owns licenses to distribute accessories for Warner Brothers and Coca Cola will pay Paragon a goodwill payment of 300000 over two years to release its shares. Blue-I is also purchasing 100000 of stock and equipment. Paragon will go into liquidation within two months. Administrator Shay Bannon says creditors will be paid once outstanding money has been collected.

Paragon will remain in administration for another month or two and will then go into liquidation. The payment from Blue-I is deferred over two years. We cant pay creditors before we have collected the money in. We will start to distribute the money once we have enough to pay 5p in 1. It doesnt make sense to pay creditors in small amounts.

Paragon (ex-Fone Range) went into receivership in March after losing 708000 in the nine months to December last year.

The new price plans are Firststep New Smartstep and Nextstep. Like the BTCellnet offering customers will automatically be connected to the new enhanced Smartstep plan but can switch to any other available price plan within 28 days at no charge.

After this initial period customers can migrate between pre-pay price plans for an administration charge of 7.50 unless they are moving to Nextstep where it will continue to be free.

The three price plans are aimed to appeal to weekend and evening users keen texters and talkers and heavy users.

Firststep has calls at 5p per minute for evening and weekend Vodafone-to-Vodafone calls rising to 10p per minute for national and local evening and weekend calls.

New Smartstep calls are 25p per minute for the first three minutes in a day. This drops to 5p per minute thereafter. Text messages cost 12p for the first three messages in a day and then 9p per message thereafter.

Nextstep is a flat rate designed for the high user costing 50p a day for 50p worth of calls and/or text. Local national and Vodafone-to-Vodafone calls cost 10p per minute and 10p per text message.

Handsets range from 79.99 to 199.99 and include models from Nokia Panasonic Sony and Motorola. All current top-up methods can be used by customers to credit their accounts. Existing allcalls customers may remain on the allcalls price plan or move to one of the new price plans.

The package will also include up to 5 of calling credit. This will be made up of 2.50 allocated to the handset and a further 2.50 on registration with the network.

The Big Four have set up a Mobile Games Interoperability Forum (MGI) to specify a global standard and to develop certification procedures to encourage a wide adoption of the standard. The MGI Forum will provide recommendations to standards bodies and to ensure that the specification meets the needs of games publishers and developers game platform vendors game service providers mobile network operators additional device and infrastructure vendors and service integrators. They are all encouraged to join the forum.

The company won for its:

Willingness to adopt new processes and systems which has led to them being the first to pilot new systems and so bring early benefits to their customers.