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I was the guy responsible for advancing a pilot deployment of a mobile IM solution to Genie, which is what the mobile Internet service brand of BT (British Telecom) was called at the time. (BT has since renamed their mobile service "O2", and the Genie brand has been subsumed as "O2 Live" or something like that.) It was a nifty project, and it gave me some very quick lessons in working with mobile telecoms operators. The product was pretty early stage, hampered by the constraints of dealing with WAP and SMS interfaces. (This was WAP 3.x days, and some of those phones were really crappy.)