ITIS Holdings PLC
23 October 2006
ITIS LAUNCHES NEW TELEPHONE TRAFFIC INFORMATION SERVICE WITH CLEAR CHANNEL
OUTDOOR UK
ITIS Holdings plc ('ITIS' or the 'Company') today announces that it has agreed a
new contract with Clear Channel Outdoor, the UK's leading outdoor advertising
company to operate an interactive voice response telephone service. The service
will be accessible on all mobile phone networks via the short code 62266 and
will deliver the latest traffic information sourced from ITIS's Floating Vehicle
Data and supplemented with additional broadcast content form ITIS's exclusive
partner TrafficLink. The new service is branded 'The Hound' and will be
extensively promoted across Clear Channel Outdoor advertising media.
Commenting Stuart Marks, Chief Executive of ITIS said: 'We welcome this
opportunity to extend our range of telephone based information products and are
delighted that Clear Channel Outdoor has selected ITIS to be their partner and
service provider. We believe this relationship will provide a unique opportunity
for cost effective promotion that will quickly deliver high levels of public
awareness.'
David Oliver, Clear Channel Outdoor's Finance Director said 'We are excited by
this opportunity to create an innovative product that we believe the travelling
public will find invaluable and look forward to working with the ITIS team on
more projects in the future.'
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Contacts:
Stuart Marks, Chief Executive, ITIS Holdings plc - 0161 929 5788
Ginny Pulbrook, Citigate Dewe Rogerson - 0207 638 9571
Note to editors:
ITIS Holdings plc, listed on Aim, is the UK's leading provider of traffic
information and vehicle security services.
ITIS has invested in the development of a unique system for the collection and
analysis of traffic information; it combines information from the AA traffic
control centres with ITIS Historic and real-time Floating Vehicle Data (FVD) to
provide Journey time forecasts and real-time updates. ITIS now operates the
largest commercial application of FVD anywhere in the world, and delivers the
content over a variety of platforms including RDS-TMC (Alert C), digital radio
and automated telephone services (IVR) under the AA RoadWatch brand.
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