Press News

Budapest, August 11, 2003

Using EasyNet Plusz, a Matáv service now being launched, it will be possible to access the web from public areas, at a high speed and without cables. The service will be available with prepaid cards in the areas covered by service. The first sites to offer Matáv EasyNet Plusz service will be the rooms and terraces of Gerbeaud House in Vörösmarty tér and the terraces of Café del Art.

The service will be available without end user identification and free of charge for customers in several Matáv Pont stores (in Budapest in Petőfi Sándor utca, in Mammut and Árkád shopping malls, in the country in Matáv Pont stores in Miskolc and Pécs).

Customers will be able to use this service in areas with radio coverage, on their own devices equipped with Wi-Fi adapter (laptop, PDA, etc.). The prepaid cards necessary for using this service will be available in three different denominations and will entitle their holders to Internet access for 1, 5 and 24 hours.

Matáv launched the first experimental public service access point in November 2002 in the site of the lectures of University of All Knowledge, that point is still in operation during the lectures. We brought into service the first experimental hotel-based public access point in Hotel Astoria in December 2002. Since then the number of service access points in hotels has increased, since April 2003 wireless broadband Internet service has been available in the Hyatt Regency and Mercure Korona hotels as well. Generally, this service in available in community areas, conference rooms and designated hotel rooms as an experimental opportunity.

Matáv has been offering its wireless broadband Internet service under the brand name of EasyNet since February 2003, for hotels, conference rooms, restaurants and other high-traffic sites. The novelty of the EasyNet Plusz service to be launched now is the opportunity for end user identification and the application of prepaid cards.