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's 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.
AFP forecasts that it will increase its multimedia turnover by 15 percent in 2008 to about 16 million euros and to 18 million euros in 2009.