Press News

Budapest, May 16, 2003

Axelero Internet and Vivendi Telecom Hungary have made an agreement under which Axelero's DSL-based products are also available in Vivendi's service area from May 15, 2003. This move raises the number of localities where users can subscribe to Axelero's broadband Internet connection one and a half times to 94. The agreement now reached by the two competing service providers is not the first of its kind; under another agreement made a month ago, on April 14, the sale of Axelero's Kombi products, which also contain the telephone usage costs, started in Vivendi's service area.

Under this latest agreement between Vivendi and Axelero the entire DSL product family – including ADSL Hobbi, ADSL Otthon, ADSL Profi and BDSL – is available in Vivendi's service area at the same terms and conditions as in the other parts of the country. Through this agreement, Axelero is extending its DSL-based services to the following towns: Ajka, Balatonalmádi, Dunaharaszti, Dunakeszi, Dunaújváros, Esztergom, Göd, Gödöllő, Gödöllő-Asbóth, Hódmezővásárhely I and II, Isaszeg, Jászberény, Kiskunlacháza, Kistarcsa, Makó, Pécel, Ráckeve, Sárbogárd, Szeged, Szeged-Szőreg, Szeged-Tápé, Szentes, Szigethalom, Szigetszentmiklós, Tököl, Vác, Várpalota, Veresegyháza, Veszprém and Zirc.

Thanks to the agreement signed in April, it applies to all members of the Kombi product family that are also available from telephone lines in Vivendi's service area, that the Internet service fee and the telecommunication fee are shown on one and the same telephone bill issued by the telephone service provider. The Kombi15, Kombi40 and Kombi100 packages, containing both the Internet access and the telephone usage charges, provide 15 hours of Internet access for HUF 3000 monthly, or 40 hours of access for HUF 6000 monthly or 100 hours access for HUF 9000 monthly for residential customers.

The most favorable ADSL Hobbi package is available for HUF 9900 gross monthly; for this sum the holders of a conventional telephone line can enjoy up to seven times the speed of a regular modem (384 Kbit/s). ADSL Otthon offers even higher download speed (512 Kbit/s) for a sum upward from HUF 11 900 gross monthly. The ADSL Profi subscription targeted at business users provides bandwidth between 384 and 768 Kbp/s, for sums between HUF 12 900 and 29 900 depending on the other conditions of the contract (e.g. loyalty period). BDSL satisfies the biggest demands (between 394 and 1500 Kbp/s) and, depending on the other terms of the contract, it is available for monthly subscription fees ranging from HUF 26 900 to 69 900.

Subscriptions can be ordered from Axelero, either personally in one of the MatávPont shops, or at the 1234 telephone number or on the Internet at www.axelero.hu.