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Magyar Telekom to expand its service portfolio further

Budapest, March 11, 2010 11:30

Magyar Telekom announced today the expansion of its client service portfolio by taking the first steps to entering the Hungarian retail electricity and gas market.

In line with Magyar Telekom's strategy of capturing incremental revenue sources in business areas where the company can build on its existing capabilities, it has decided to enter the retail energy market, via the resale of natural gas and electricity, leveraging off the extensive sales networks that it already has in place. It is anticipated that participation in the retail electricity and gas market will enable Magyar Telekom to retain existing, and win new, telecommunication customers with attractive energy offers. The company expects that such electricity and gas offers will help to support upsell and upgrade offers in the telecommunication business as well.

As an initial phase, Magyar Telekom is going to launch electricity and gas retail offers for a targeted segment of its residential and business customers from April 2010 to test customer perception and acceptance. After this initial phase, the Company will assess the potential for further penetration of the energy market in the second half of 2010.

Liberalization of the Hungarian electricity and gas market has been completed by July 2009 enabling Magyar Telekom to team up with a wholesale provider that will supply the Company with sufficient electricity and gas volumes. Magyar Telekom is going to start reselling electricity and gas to its existing customer base as a bundled product supplementing the telecommunication services offered.

About Magyar Telekom
Magyar Telekom is Hungary's largest telecommunication service provider, which offers the full range of telecommunication and info-communication (ICT) services, including fix and mobile phone, data transmission and non-voice, as well s IT and system integration services. The company pursues its business through its two business units: Consumer Services Business Unit (the T-Home brand of services accessed at home and the T-Mobile brand of mobile communication services); Business Services Business Unit (T-Systems brand). Magyar Telekom is majority owner of Makedonski Telekom, the largest fix and mobile service provider of Macedonia, as well as Crnogorski Telekom, Montenegro's largest telecommunication service provider. Magyar Telekom's majority (59.21%) owner is MagyarCom Holding GmbH, which is exclusively owned by Deutsche Telekom AG. Further information is available at www.telekom.hu.