Vodafone and T-Mobile announced at CeBIT that they are teaming up to offer "mobile wallets" to customers in an initial roll-out through the UK and Germany by the end of the year.

Dublin company Altamedius, formerly Artic Web, is to provide micro payment services to Eircell Vodafone's 1.6 million customer base.

The ODTR yesterday issued a quarterly report for the period July to September, 2001. The report indicates that after three year of the markets being open, one fifth of total turnover is now in the hands of new entrants and prices have fallen substantially.