A system which enables a mobile telephone to be used to locate goods or services, comprising the following elements: (a) a communications network to allow a mobile telephone operator to receive, from the mobile telephone, criteria defining the goods or services required; (b) a searching system connected to receive the criteria and perform automated searches against those criteria using resources provided by suppliers of the goods or services and to send results over the communications network to the mobile telephone; (c) an electronic commerce and billing engine operating to allow the user of the mobile telephone to order goods or services from the operator and not the supplier.
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