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Budapest, December 21, 2010 11:00

Magyar Telekom has been included in the Central-East European CEERIUS sustainability stock exchange index also for 2011. The investment qualification based on an independent evaluation has confirmed again that Magyar Telekom is a leading company in sustainability also in international comparison.

The CEERIUS (CEE Responsible Investment Universe), the responsible investment index of Central and Eastern Europe launched in 2009 by the Vienna Stock Exchange, includes the best performing companies in terms of social and ecological quality from the region's eight countries also this year. Nearly 200 companies have been evaluated and the index has been compiled by the Austrian consulting company RFU (Reinhard Friesenbichler Unternehmensberatung) on the basis of surveying the responsible stakeholder relations of companies. Among other issues, relations of companies were examined to their own employees, the society as a whole, customers, market players and the environment.

Several investment products are based on the CEERIUS index. Responsible investments in the shares of companies that are leaders in sustainability increase rapidly in popularity and significance: their value has nearly doubled in Europe since 2008 reaching EUR 5,000 billion. More details about the CEERIUS index are available at the web site http://en.indices.cc/indices/details/riu
Magyar Telekom's sustainability performance has been recognized by responsible investment evaluators also earlier. The company was included in the CEERIUS index in the year of its introduction in 2009, and it has been rated Prime category, recommended to investors, by Germany's Oekom.