28 November 2008 - For immediate release

At Mobile Asia Congress 2009 in Macau, global mapping specialists Europa Technologies have made available an update to their Asia-Pacific coverage map and published a new map showing GSM coverage in the Arab World region. Both maps show the extent 2G and 3G coverage over the dominant GSM standard which now enjoys over 3 billion subscribers worldwide.

The A2-size maps are available free of charge from the GSM Association stand at Mobile Asia Congress and can also be downloaded in PDF format from www.coveragemaps.com

Founder and Executive Director, Warren Vick, said "We are delighted to add a new publication for to our popular range of GSM coverage maps. The new Arab World map, together with an update for the Asia-Pacific map, graphically illustrate coverage for two very important GSM regions."

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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