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T-Mobile introduce Travel and Journey Alerts provided by OAG and Mobile Commerce 28  February  2006

OAG, the world’s largest provider of flight schedules and online travel information, today announced a partnership with Mobile Commerce to provide T-Mobile with flight schedules and flight status alerts as part of a Travel & Journey Alerts Service.  The service provides flight and road traffic status alerts, rail information, driving directions and best journey routes direct to T-Mobile customers via SMS. 

Air travellers and those meeting or greeting travellers at an airport can request current flight status via this service.  Scheduled flight timetables and flight status alerts will be available in the next few months direct to T-Mobile customers on their mobile for selected flights.  T-Mobile customers can also opt to receive instant snapshots of traffic conditions based on their current location, or subscribe to automatic traffic alerts for pre-defined routes. 

The Travel & Journey Alerts Service eliminates the need for time-consuming phone calls, providing all the information for an entire journey package – from the car to the train and plane.  Messages are delivered direct to a customer’s mobile phone at any time of the day and from any location.  This convenient and flexible service provides T-Mobile customers with up-to-date advice and travel tips to help reduce time spent waiting at airports and minimise rail and road travel delays.

Mobile Commerce has integrated flight status content from OAG with routing and road directions from the AA and real-time traffic information from ITIS, updated every fifteen minutes.

“This dynamic service provides truly valuable information to T-Mobile travellers worldwide and dramatically reduces the time and cost associated with the search process” added Duncan Alexander, Managing Director for OAG Business Development. “OAG is delighted to partner with Mobile Commerce and provide flight status and air travel information that can be packaged with travel content from other suppliers.  The combination of this travel data provides T-Mobile with a successful and practical service for its customers.”  

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For further information please contact:
Duncan Alexander
Managing Director for OAG Business Development 
Tel: +44 (0)1582 695476
Email: dataservices@oag.com

or Margareta Stanley at DBA
Tel 44 (0)207 930 8033
Email: info@nchl.demon.co.uk or dba@nchl.demon.co.uk

About OAG

OAG is an information management and distribution company specialising in travel and transportation. 

OAG’s expertise is in managing large amounts of data and building applications and products to get that information into the hands of people who need it.

OAG holds a breadth of travel related content. It is best known for its airline schedules database, which holds flight details for 1,000 airlines and more than 3,500 airports.  Every ten seconds a flight is updated on the OAG system.

OAG provides a broad range of products for business and consumer customers, available in virtually any way the customer wants it:  Internet, PDA, mobile, digital and print.

OAG is a private company supported by over 400 staff with presence in Europe, America and Asia.  To view OAG services visit www.oag.com, www.oagdata.com and www.inforwarding.com