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Budapest, October 2, 2009 13:00

This year Magyar Telekom, as an employer that feels responsibility for the health of its employees, will join again the 'Health Bridge - Cooperation for Health and Against Breast Cancer', an initiative based on the idea that breast cancer can be avoided with screening in time. In the framework of the Health Bridge Partner Chain, Magyar Telekom will provide free breast cancer screening for a hundred employees. In the evening of October 4 the employees of the company, with Chief Human Resources Officer Éva Somorjai will take part in the awareness-raising walk across Chain Bridge which will bear the motto: 'Together against breast cancer'.

In Magyar Telekom's employer thinking, health protection has occupied a primary role for more than ten years. As a key achievement in this field we provide an complex health screening opportunity annually for our employees, attended last year by more than 4,000 Telekom employees. The Health Bridge initiative will be a good opportunity for Magyar Telekom to make its employees aware that breast cancer can be avoided if they lead a healthy life and go for regular screening tests.

"Knowing that breast cancer if detected in an early stage, can be cured in 90% of cases, we provide free breast cancer screening to a hundred employees. To demonstrate my personal commitment to this cause, I will attend the walk across Chain Bridge in the evening of October 4 in the company of my family and our employees", said Chief Human Resources Officer Éva Somorjai. She added:
"I'm deeply convinced that a lovable and livable workplace that we intend to establish is also a health-friendly workplace. And this is a goal well worth of investing into. Magyar Telekom employees can buy sport activities, sports gear and outfits as well as recreation packages with the health fund contribution provided as a non-wage benefit exceeding the national average. We operate sports clubs and workout facilities are available in more and more office buildings. Answering the requests of employees, we have built or expanded bicycle storage facilities on company premises. We also provide professional health care for every employee. We provide for protection of our non-smoking employees and make available in the company medical surgeries CDs to help give up smoking."

The company's efforts to promote a healthy lifestyle and increase the satisfaction of its employees have been honored with several awards. For our professional efforts of more than 10 years we won the Family Friendly Employer 2008 award and we ranked third among some 100 companies in the Heart Friendly Employer competition.

About Magyar Telekom
Magyar Telekom is the principal provider of telecom services in Hungary. It provides a full range of telecommunications and infocommunications (ICT) services including fixed line and mobile telephony, data transmission and non-voice as well as IT and systems integration services. The business activities of Magyar Telekom are managed by two business units: Consumer services (the home-related services brand T-Home and the mobile communications brand T-Mobile); Business services (T-Systems brand). Magyar Telekom is the majority owner of Makedonski Telekom, the leading fixed line and mobile operator in Macedonia and it holds a majority stake in Crnogorski Telekom, the leading telecommunications operator in Montenegro. Magyar Telekom's majority shareholder (59.21%) is MagyarCom Holding GmbH, fully owned by Deutsche Telekom AG.
For further information visit www.telekom.hu.