Company Name | Based | The boss | Latest Turnover | Key Fact |
24/7 Mobile Media | London | Nick Mordin | N/A | Serial entrepreneur Mordin is founder of 24/7 Parking and extended the model into mobile gaming. |
2ergo | Lancashire | Barry Sharples/ Neale Graham | £11.2m | Sharples and Graham have over 17 years experience running telecoms companies together. |
3Way Networks | Cambridge | Dr David Cleevely | N/A | Supplies 3G base stations to the US military for use on the battlefield. |
Apertio | Bristol | Paul Magelli | £3.4m | Compares its software-based network to the shift from mainframe to software in IT. |
AQA | London | Colly Myers | N/A | Colly Myers is the former CEO of Symbian and MD of Psion. |
Argogroup | London | David Frodsham | £4.2m | Transformed itself from a wireless product manufacturer into a network services testing company. |
Arieso | Newbury | Shirin Dehgan | N/A | Arieso's network optimisation cuts network costs for operators by 30%. |
Babel Media | Brighton | Algy Williams | £4.9m | Babel is expert in UK games and interactive entertainment industries development. |
Bango | Cambridge | Ray Anderson | £3.4m | Anderson shipped the world's first commercial web browser. |
Brand Communications | Cambridge | Martin Kendrick | N/A | Offers "off-the-shelf" applications for use on WiFi and 3G networks. |
C3 | Cambridge | John Wood | £3m | Provides mobile platform for over 40% of UK mobile voting market on reality TV shows etc. |
Cognima | London | Mark Bole | N/A | Camera phone software allows users to move content and images on and off mobiles easily. |
Dialogue Communications | Sheffield | Paul Griffiths | £12.1m (E) | A big player in B2B texting and enjoying huge growth. |
Digital Rum (dRum) | London | Bob Pike | £1.9m | Pike sold Vxtreme to Microsoft. It's better known as Windows Media player. |
eCourier | London | Thomas Allason | N/A | Uses cutting edge location and tracking technology to track courier packages. |
Empower Interactive | London | Keith Cornell | N/A | Over 50 million mobile messages are processed by Empower's products worldwide every day. |
e-San | Oxford | Clive Peggram | N/A | Remote monitoring of patients with cystic fibrosis, asthma and high blood pressure using GPRS. |
Esendex | Nottingham | Julian Hucker | £3m | Esendex has just signed its 1000th customer and is growing by 100 customers per month. |
Ezurio | London | Chris Shannon | N/A | New spinout for team of veteran Bluetooth specialists. |
Flytxt | London | Carsten Boers | N/A | The pioneer of mobile marketing in the UK. Now global. |
HaySystems/HSL | Edinburgh | Mark Hay | N/A | Provides SMS services to clients such as BAA, Cisco Systems, HP, Sony Ericsson and Schlumberger |
Hypertag | Cambridge | Rachel Harker | N/A | Hypertags are Bluetooth "tags" that send marketing information to consumer mobile phones. |
iFone | Manchester | Morgan O'Rahilly | £3.6m | Works with game developers, handset manufacturers and wireless carriers for mobile content. |
I-play | London | Brian Greasely | £6.2m | Formerly known as Digital Bridges, I-play is a pioneer in the mobile SMS and Java games space. |
Kuju Wireless Publishing | Godalming | Kevin Holloway | £7.7m | Kuju Wireless was one of the very first mobile games companies. |
mBlox | London | Jeffery Clark | N/A | Merged with MobileSys, US SMS services provider to the enterprise market, in 2003.27 |
Mediaburst | Cheshire | Jeremy Bygrave | £4.5m | Provide PC to text services for customers such as Microsoft and O2. |
Mobile Commerce | Cirencester | Steve Page | N/A | Specialises in location services to help you find a plumber or other local services. |
Mobile Innovation | London | Jonathan Sulenski | £12.15m | Designs user interfaces and software for smartphones and mobiles. |
Mobile Interactive Group | London | Barry Houlihan | £6.2m | Houlihan helped to build up Genie Mobile, one of the first mobile internet companies in the UK. |
Mobile Streams | Newbury | Simon Buckingham | £3m | Specialises in mobile music and media. One of the first successful ringtones companies |
Mobiqa | Edinburgh | Iain McCready | c.£1m | Developed "mobile barcodes?, which can be used as tickets, vouchers and coupons.33 |
Monstermob | London | Martin Higginson | £21.1m | Serial entrepreneur Higginson has just bought Chinese mobile content specialist ATOP. |
MX Telecom | London | Thomas O'Donohoe | £24.6m | Streams TV show "Big Brother" to 3G phones. |
Opera Telecom | Birmingham | Gary Corbett | £99m | Corbett was part of the startup team at Tiscali. Opera is the biggest aggregator in the UK |
Re5ult | Cambridge | Sarah McVittie | £3m | Via its 'ASK82' service, for just £1, mobile users can text a question and get the answer in minutes. |
Sarantel | Wellingborough | David Wither | £1.01m | Sarantel provides wireless antennas for mobile phones, which reduce radiation by 90 per cent. |
Scoopt | Glasgow | Kyle MacRae | N/A | New photo agency that helps the public sell newsworthy mobile phone images to national media. |
Spinvox | London | Christina Domecq | N/A | Converts voicemails into text messages |
Sponge Group | London | Alex Meisl | £2.52m | Mobile content and technology to Coca Cola, Budweiser, Sunday Times, Channel 4 and Endemol. |
Stream Communications | Glasgow | Kevin McDowall | N/A | Telemetry and machine-to-machine (M2M) services via mobile |
The Cloud | Fareham | George Polk | N/A | The largest public 'WiFi' wireless hotspot operator in Europe. |
Timico | Newark | Tim Radford | $5m | New MVNO with T-Mobile will offer one bill for your mobile, landline and broadband. |
Trackaphone | Northumberland | Phil Derry | £2.5m (E) | Uses location-based services to track employees and customers. |
TTP Communications | Royston | Tony Milbourn | £62m | Supplies and designs wireless silicon IP to the semiconductor and handset industry. |
Volantis | Guildford | Matt Harris | N/A | Cross-platform technology to optimise mobile content. |
vsGaming | Ipswich | Jerry Bowskill | N/A | Mobile games to global online gambling businesses such as SportingBet and Ladbrokes |
weComm | London | Oliver Sturrock | N/A | Provides the delivery platform for content providers such as Reuters, Dow Jones and The Press Assocation |
WIN | High Wycombe | Marc Charlton | £20.6m | Wireless Information Networks customers include BBC, Associated Newspapers, Granada, Centrica. |
Wyless | London | Michael Jeffries | £3.2m | One of the UK leaders in telemetry and machine-to-machine communication. |