Sportal and BT announce EURO2000 WAP Content Deal
Sportal, the leading global provider of interactive sports content, today announced that it had reached agreement with BT to provide exclusive content to the WAP services of BT and all it's joint venture partners.
The agreement specifically covers the EURO2000 Football Championship, the biggest football tournament of the year - of which Sportal is the official website producer.
Sportal will provide BT with news, scores, fixtures, tables and results, in five languages. Telfort in the Netherlands, and which is 100 per cent-owned by BT, is the official telecom supplier for EURO2000 and official supplier for the EURO2000 WAP portal. Telfort will make the information available via it's official EURO2000 WAP portal throughout 51 European countries.
This agreement will give BT the exclusive right to distribute the official content to their joint ventures via the official Telfort WAP portal (www.WAP.ole2000.nl).
'We are delighted to have reached this agreement with BT,' said Sportal's Steve Masters, Content Distribution Manager.
'It means that fans who are travelling anywhere in Europe, for whatever reason, will be able to keep up to date with all of the latest information from the tournament. It is vital for Sportal to be at the forefront of this rapidly developing technology and this deal reinforces our position at the cutting edge.'
Jean-Marc Frangos, BT's director of Internet and Multimedia Europe, said: 'The partnership with Sportal gives BT the ability to offer WAP users in Europe access to EURO2000s information. This demonstrates how consumers across Europe can benefit from the strength of BT's ventures such as Telfort.
'The EURO2000 initiative is a very tangible and exciting example of BT's commitment to mobile Internet technology.'
Sportal is the official website producer for EURO2000, producing, UEFA's official site. The site has over 1800 dedicated pages and Sportal will be the only website with accredited journalist's at this summers tournament.
For Further informatio plese contact:
ABOUT SPORTAL CONTACT:
Ella Cope : ecope@bell-pottinger.co.uk Tel: 0207 820 9911
ABOUT BT TELFORT CONTACT:
Andrew Green: andrew.2.green@bt.com Tel: 0771 007 0798
The agreement specifically covers the EURO2000 Football Championship, the biggest football tournament of the year - of which Sportal is the official website producer.
Sportal will provide BT with news, scores, fixtures, tables and results, in five languages. Telfort in the Netherlands, and which is 100 per cent-owned by BT, is the official telecom supplier for EURO2000 and official supplier for the EURO2000 WAP portal. Telfort will make the information available via it's official EURO2000 WAP portal throughout 51 European countries.
This agreement will give BT the exclusive right to distribute the official content to their joint ventures via the official Telfort WAP portal (www.WAP.ole2000.nl).
'We are delighted to have reached this agreement with BT,' said Sportal's Steve Masters, Content Distribution Manager.
'It means that fans who are travelling anywhere in Europe, for whatever reason, will be able to keep up to date with all of the latest information from the tournament. It is vital for Sportal to be at the forefront of this rapidly developing technology and this deal reinforces our position at the cutting edge.'
Jean-Marc Frangos, BT's director of Internet and Multimedia Europe, said: 'The partnership with Sportal gives BT the ability to offer WAP users in Europe access to EURO2000s information. This demonstrates how consumers across Europe can benefit from the strength of BT's ventures such as Telfort.
'The EURO2000 initiative is a very tangible and exciting example of BT's commitment to mobile Internet technology.'
Sportal is the official website producer for EURO2000, producing
For Further informatio plese contact:
ABOUT SPORTAL CONTACT:
Ella Cope : ecope@bell-pottinger.co.uk Tel: 0207 820 9911
ABOUT BT TELFORT CONTACT:
Andrew Green: andrew.2.green@bt.com Tel: 0771 007 0798