A grapevine driven updating technique includes providing a first piece of updated data to a first mobile terminal and then initiating an inquiry from the first mobile terminal to a second mobile terminal via a communication link, the inquiry asking the second mobile terminal whether it wishes to receive the first updated piece of data. A response is then forwarded from the second mobile terminal to the first mobile terminal via the communication link in response to the inquiry from the first mobile terminal, the response acknowledging that it wishes to receive the first updated piece of data; and the first updated piece of data is forwarded from the first mobile terminal to the second mobile terminal via the communication link. In a similar fashion, the first updated piece of data may be forwarded from the second mobile terminal to a third mobile terminal which in turn can forward the first updated piece of data to a fourth mobile terminal, etc.
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