AFP to boost mobile phone content services

Agence France-Presse will add mobile phone information services in Arabic, German and Portuguese in 2009 as it seeks to further boost revenues from the key new sector, agency chairman Pierre Louette said.

"Turnover in the mobile sector has doubled in 24 months," Louette said. "Our aim is to provide services associated with our content" so the agency can generate new revenues, he told a press conference Thursday.

AFP proposes a specialised news journal for mobile phones, text alerts and multimedia downloads. These already exist in English, Spanish and French and the new languages will be added early next year, Louette said."

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