Ticketing On The Move: WAP Tickets With Ticketingsolutions.com And Vodafone

Businesses will soon be able to sell tickets and reservations to Vodafone Interactive and WAP mobile phone users following an agreement between Vodafone and ticketingsolutions.com, the UK's leading dedicated online ticketing operation. Impulse consumer decisions, such as going to a nightclub or a restaurant, as well as convenience services for businesspeople, will be made via a mobile phone. Vodafone customers will have access to information about hundreds of events and venues across the UK anytime, anywhere.

Matthew Hare, managing director, ticketingsolutions.com, said: "This exciting new development will benefit Vodafone customers and the UK leisure industry. It opens up a whole new mobile sales channel for our venue and event customers and enables Vodafone customers the choice of thousands of different venues without needing a relationship with each individual business. This saves everybody time and money.

"We recognise that WAP technology will rapidly start to change the way we organise our business and social lives and eventually our customers will be able to update event information with their calendars held on Vodafone Interactive. Customers might choose to receive an alert on their phone to remind them of the time of an event they have booked. We will have more time to go out for dinner, watch football matches and take a weekend break, and ticketingsolutions.com is there to ensure that it can be arranged at the touch of a button."

Paul Donovan, Commercial and Marketing Director, Vodafone, said: "We all increasingly rely on technology to make our lives easier. The addition of ticketingsolutions.com to our Vodafone Interactive service will let our customers book services when and where ever they want. It is essential we can provide rich local content to enable our customers to book everything from a small hotel in Devon to a London West End show - all from their Vodafone WAP handset."