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Budapest, January 6, 2012 11:30

Watching TV with the family, fixed and mobile telephony, Internet access at home and though mobile devices in a single package, at favourable price.

Starting today T-Home and T-Mobile introduce a new Paletta package discount for residential subscribers using both fixed line and mobile services. Within the area serviced by Magyar Telekom the Paletta package discounts are available in four versions – Paletta M 100 and M 200, as well as Paletta L 100 and L 200 – and the favourable monthly fees include a wide range of telecommunication services (TV for the whole family, fixed line and mobile telephone, home and mobile Internet access), being a truly unique offer in the Hungarian market. The total monthly fee of the package discounts depends on services included, the discounts offered on monthly fees resulting for loyalty periods committed for the tariff plans, as well as on T-Home discounts.
In addition, subscribers using the discounted package offers, with a 2 years commitment for mobile telephone subscription and the Paletta 100 or 200 tariff plan can purchase a Samsung Galaxy Y smartphone at an extremely favourable price, for 9,900 HUF.

„As market leader, Magyar Telekom is striving for fulfilling the communication needs of Hungarian households, by packaging fixed line and mobile products at competitive prices. With this purpose in mind the company established the discounted service package, including the most popular telecommunication services (TV, home and mobile Internet, fixed line and mobile telephone) with favourable terms and predefined tariff plans” – said István Király, chief marketing officer of  Magyar Telekom.

Subscribers using the Paletta package discount can even enjoy the advantages of interactive television: by choosing IPTV or satellite TV services upgraded with interactive services (Interactive Sat TV), they can enjoy smart TV services like electronic programme guide, recording or pausing programmes, parental lock, picture in picture, search functions, VideoTheque (video on demand) and the Origo portal. All these, coupled with digital audio and picture quality and rich channel assortment (56 channels). Naturally, the Paletta package discounts are also available for customers subscribing for Sat TV, as well as the digital and analogue Cable TV packages.

The fixed line Basic or Family Internet packages included in the new package discount offer unlimited broadband at home, with the maximal download speeds of 5 Mbit/sec or 15 Mbit/sec, depending on the package (in case of the family package of Paletta L100 with the maximum download speed of 15 Mbit/s the guaranteed download speed is 5 Mbit/s in case of DSL, while in case of CableNet it is 1.5 Mbit/s, and in case of Optinet it is 7.5 Mbit/s. Upload speeds: with DSL max. 900 Kbit/s and guaranteed 512 Kbit/s; with CableNet max. 1 Mbit/s and guaranteed 400 Kbit/s; with Optinet max. 7.5 Mbit/s and guaranteed 3.75 Mbit/s).

Subscribers to the new package discount can call more than 8 million phone numbers with 0 HUF minute charge, from their fixed line telephone included in the discount scheme and with the Hoppá tariff plan - up to 5,000 minutes per month in case of normal rate inland numbers and 200 minutes in case of base rate T-Mobile numbers.

As a further speciality the new Paletta package discount scheme, with mobile subscriptions – including 100 or 200 minutes of use in the monthly fee – mobile Internet subscriptions are also offered, in case of the Go!Net data tariff plan – with discounted monthly fees and no charge on over-the-quota data traffic – that includes 100 MB or 200 MB data traffic.

The total monthly fee of the new Paletta M 100 discounted package scheme – using the T-Home discount and the 1,680 HUF Paletta discount, with 2 years loyalty commitment for TV, fixed line Internet and telephone service – amounts to 11,500 HUF. The package discount scheme offers fixed line Internet access with maximum 5 Mbit/sec download speeds (max. download speed: 5Mbit/s. Guaranteed download speeds: with DSL 1Mbit/s, with CableNet 500Kbit/s, with Optinet 2.5Mbit/s. Upload speeds: with DSL and CableNet max. 500 Kbit/s and guaranteed 192Kbit/s, with Optinet max. 2.5 Mbit/s and guaranteed 1.25 Mbit/s). In case of interactive TV for families 56 channels are offered, monthly 100 minutes inland mobile calls, 100 MB mobile data traffic, and 0 HUF minute charge in case of calls initiated from the fixed line telephone at home, towards inland phone numbers with normal tariffs and base rate T-Mobile numbers, up to the limits of the discount scheme.

In the Paletta package discount scheme the subscriber of the individual T-Home services need to be identical in all cases of the services used, paying under a single bill, at identical location of service installation. In a given Paletta package discount scheme one TV, one fixed line Internet access, one fixed line telephone and one mobile telephone subscription need to be involved, with pre-defined tariff plans. One subscription can only be included in one Paletta package discount scheme.

The detailed and complete set of terms and conditions of using the new Paletta package discount scheme are available on the T-Home and T-Mobile websites ( www.t-home.hu, www.t-mobile.hu).