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Budapest, May 19, 2003

From May 19 Westel's customers can view video materials and send short video messages to mobile phones or e-mail addresses with their mobile phones with two different solutions. Westel offers for its mobile video service four types of phones (Nokia 3650, Nokia 7650, Sony Ericsson P800, Qtek). The Nokia 3650 phone with integrated camera that can send video messages is available with the best conditions ever.

For a long time communication devices with video sending and video film viewing capabilities were seen only in fantasy novels and films, then the launch of third generation networks created hopes for the use of mobile phones with video capabilities. However multimedia "entered" mobile phones much earlier, last April MMS was offered for the first time in the world in Westel's network, then in November video sending too as a novelty in Hungary. With the new services customers could download video films of varying length from Westel's WAP site. The great interest in video is shown by the fact that the '777mobile' video films that can be viewed only with a single type of phone have been viewed so far almost 10,000 times.
From May 19 additional opportunities are offered for real multimedia services accessible with mobile phone on the GSM network. The video materials available on Westel's '777mobile' portal with mobile phone can be viewed by Westel customers with two different solutions, as a unique offering on the domestic mobile market. From now on the video downloading service, started simultaneously with the video sending capability launched first last November by Westel, can be used in addition to Siemens Pocket Video also with Real One Player. With the selection possibility offered for the video films available on '777mobile' the video content service of the largest domestic WAP portal and the novelties to be launched soon will be easily accessible with the Nokia 7650, Nokia 3650 and Sony Ericsson P800 mobile phones distributed by Westel and Qtek devices with computer functions too. Fast downloading of video films requires packet-switched transmission (GPRS) but does not present a problem since as a unique opportunity on the domestic market Westel offers both its postpaid and Domino prepaid customers the possibility to select from various GPRS packages.

Another novelty is that the new version of the software presented by Westel last November, which records voice too with the video, can be downloaded also to the Nokia 7650 phone so video sending can be fully used as a service similar to third generation multimedia. What is more, the new versatile Nokia 3650 phone, that can store both video and audio recordings, is offered with the best conditions on the domestic mobile market: Westel’s Gold Card customers can buy this mobile phone with large color display, MMS and video capability for a mere HUF 29,900 upfront payment and 12 months' installments.

Phones with video capability distributed by Westel and the available services:
Nokia 3650 and Nokia 7650: video downloading and video sending.
Sony Ericsson P800 and Qtek: video downloading.