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Budapest, November 10, 2005 11:00

The public payphone equipment of T-Com, the first eight of which were put into operation this week at Ferihegy airport, accepts Euro coins as well. Simultaneously, the T-Com staff has started reconstruction of the telephone booths in the Budapest inner city.

Four telephone booths of this design were deployed at Ferihegy Airport Terminal 1 and four at Terminal 2. Notices are displayed next to the telephone set informing customers that Euros are also accepted by the equipment. If this initiative is favorably received T-Com will roll out the service nation-wide. In the first step the company plans to install Euro-based public payphones in the areas frequented by tourists. In the case of Euro payment the call charges are the same as the HUF prices.

Along with commissioning of the Euro-based public payphones, reconstruction of the public payphone booths has also started.
In the first step 58 telephone booths (with 111 terminal sets) will be reconstructed in the inner city, along the Pest section of Nagykörút, and new lighting will be installed in 7 locations. Reconstruction work is expected to be completed by December 15, 2005.