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Webraska provides Web, WAP, call-centre interface and IVR services to Vizzavi, Vivendi and Vodafone's multi-access portalWebraska services available to users in Web, WAP, call-centre and Interactive Voice Response formats Poissy, France, 19 June 2000 - Webraska Mobile Technologies, the world's first provider of maps, traffic information and navigation services on Internet mobile phones, announces that it has been selected as provider of traffic and itinerary services to the French version of Vivendi and Vodafone's multi-access European Internet portal Vizzavi which is being launched today. Webraska calculates the best itinerary from and to any destination in France, providing Vizzavi users with a choice of means of transport (car, public transport or walking), journey time, and instructions in detailed street-by-street as well as summarised format. Car drivers can choose between the shortest or fastest route (avoiding traffic congestion) or between routes with or without motorway tolls. A "memory" functionality ensures that past itineraries can be easily stored and retrieved. This service is available free of charge on Vizzavi's Web site in sections "Idées Voyages" and "C'est Pratique". Itineraries can also be requested at the Vizzavi call-centre by dialling 7272 from an SFR mobile phone. Personalised real-time traffic information in and around Paris are provided to Vizzavi users both on the Vizzavi Web site and on the users' mobile phones, either using WAP or Interactive Voice Response technologies. Traffic conditions are provided for specific urban and suburban routes chosen by the users and for specific areas within Paris. Vizzavi users enter their preferences on the Web site then receive this information on their mobile phones via WAP messages which are automatically sent to them at their preferred date and time. The traffic information service is available on Vizzavi's "Toute l'info" section. Traffic information is also obtainable by an operator by contacting a call-centre on telephone number 7272. Both itineraries and traffic information will soon be transmitted by SMS, e.mail or WAP. "Vizzavi is the type of service that Webraska is ideally placed to collaborate with: it is international, multi-access and useful. It allows us to offer our combined expertise in handling multiple access modes, real-time information, personalisation and sophisticated functionalities to provide services that people need every day", commented Jean-Michel Durocher, CEO and founder of Webraska. About Vizzavi Vizzavi is a multi-access European Internet portal created by Vivendi and Vodafone. Its objective is to improve the life of its users by opening up a world of information in a simple, personalised and fun way. Vizzavi offers over 200 services including the latest stock exchange information, how to avoid traffic congestion, book tickets for shows or listen to radio news. Vizzavi is currently available on on the Web and on WAP mobile phones for SFR WAP subscribers. It will be available in the United Kingdom in July 2000. It will also be available on terrestrial TV and on cable channel Canal + before end of 2000. The total potential audience for Vizzavi is over 70 m, including subscribers of SFR, AOL, Canal+ and Vodafone. The French version of Vizzavi is available at www.vizzavi.fr About Webraska Webraska provides real-time maps, traffic, and location-based personal navigation services for Internet mobile phones. Both a value-added service provider and a mapping and navigation application service provider, Webraska’s goal is to offer a worldwide, up-to-date, person-based and flexible alternative to CD/DVD-ROM car-centric navigation systems. In addition to its patented Internet-based Distributed Navigation, Webraska provides wireless carriers with a complete suite of turnkey personal navigation applications, originally designed with leading French operator SFR, and carefully crafted to make the best out of each access mode (WAP, Internet, SMS, IVR, PDA, Call Centre, car equipment). Webraska also offers an Application Programming Interface (API) that allow carriers and their partners to add door-to-door directions, mapping, geocoding and enhanced spatial searching based on shortest journey-time to all their applications (location-based services, mobile e-commerce, games, city guides, fleet management, mobile Extranet, etc.). Partners and customers include SFR / Cegetel, KPN, Proximus / Belgacom, ADAC, Scoot, Peugeot / Vivendi, Alcatel, CPS, Schlumberger, TrafficMaster, In Fusio, TeleAtlas and Navtech. The company is headquartered in Poissy, France and has offices in London, Brussels, Madrid, Rotterdam and Melbourne. For more information visit www.webraska.com For more information, please contact: Silvia Blanc-Bolelli Webraska sblancbolelli@webraska.com Tel: +33 (0)1 39 22 63 04 www.webraska.com
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