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News below from the BBC's website.  Freeserve's shares have jumped 34p to
323p in response.
Paul A

The UK's largest internet service provider, Freeserve, has teamed up with
telecoms company BT Cellnet to offer mobile internet services.

The two companies said they had signed a "strategic agreement" to work
together on the development of mobile internet services in the UK.

Customers will be offered internet access to SMS text message services. This
is an old technology, but both companies hope that it will soon lure a large
number of users to take up advanced services using the Wireless Application
Protocol (Wap), once they become available.

Users can subscribe to customised sport, entertainment, financial and
enhanced email services. Mobile e-commerce is planned as well.

BT Cellnet hopes to dramatically improve mobile access to the internet when
it rolls out its General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), a high speed mobile
internet system.

E-mail on the go

One of the first services to be made available by the partnership will be an
email notification service on mobile phones for all Freeserve's customers
from late January 2000.

The service forwards the first 140 characters of an e-mail to a mobile
phone.

However, Freeserve is not the first in the market. The service is already
available to Genie Internet customers.

Genie Internet is owned by BT Cellnet.