11 February 2008 - For immediate release

At the first day of Mobile World Congress 2008 in Barcelona, global mapping specialists Europa Technologies have published updated versions of their GSM World and European coverage maps. The A2-size maps illustrate the extent of GSM network coverage worldwide and provides a fascinating view of 2G and 3G coverage over the dominant global mobile communications standard.

The maps are available free of charge from the GSM Association stand at Mobile World Congress and can also be downloaded in PDF format from www.coveragemaps.com

Company director, Warren Vick, said "As part of our services to the GSM Association, we are delighted to publish these updates to what has become a very popular series of maps. Once again, several thousand copies of these maps will be distributed at congress this year."

About Europa Technologies

Europa Technologies is a specialist manufacturer of digital world map data for a wide variety of market sectors and applications. Our products allow organisations with international interests to better understand their customers, assets and markets, in a geographic context, to gain a competitive or strategic advantage. Topographic and satellite imagery products from Europa Technologies are used by many Fortune Global 500 companies and several missions of the United Nations. Europa Technologies is also the official supplier of mobile network coverage maps to the GSM Association, the global trade organisation for the leading mobile telecommunications standard. The company has global licence agreements with a number of leading Internet-based service providers including Google Earth/Maps (USA), Multimap (UK), ViaMichelin (France) and Maps24 (Germany). Through deployment via Google alone, our world data products are used by over 350 million people, approximately 1 in 4 of Internet users world-wide and our mobile coverage maps are accessed by over 20 million unique users, each year.

For further information, please visit www.europa.uk.com

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