Press Releases

Budapest, June 8, 2012 15:00

• T-Home Couch Sector is launched for sports fans
• Football European Cup Interactive: brand ne TV applications for IPTV users
• 30 percent discount on calls initiated from Poland and the Ukraine during the Football European Cup
• Fan offer for new Interactive TV subscribers
• Support your favourite team open-air in the Fan Club in City Park

T-Home offers the complete experience for true fans both at home and open-air. The brand developed special on-line content called Couch Sector, enabling sport fans to follow the events of the Football European Cup and the Olympic Games in London, as well as share their opinion on site www.igazirajongok.hu. Using the website and the relevant mobile application one can get information about the actual and expected matches, virtually log on the Football European Cup matches, invite friends on Facebook, express emotions about the matches by pressing the activity button, collect fan pins and discuss the most exciting moments of the match – while several prizes will also be given out depending on the activity level.

Football European Cup for Interactive football fans
Innovation leader T-Home developed a special Football European Cup Interactive application – available within the interactive IPTV service – for fans interested in matches of the Football European Cup. Not only can users have almost immediate access to all relevant information about the Football European Cup through the TV screen, but they don’t miss any of the matches either. Within the Archive TV program assortment the new development offers viewing the matches from within 1 hour upon the end of the match up to 72 hours (3 days) free of charge. As a special feature, matches will be available in SD quality (and HD for subscribers with HD television sets). In the Football European Cup Interactive application one can continuously follow the latest news of [origo] on the Football European Cup, monitor the timetable, dates of matches, scores, as well as on participating teams and players.

Promotional Travel & Talk roaming discounts for visitors to the matches
T-Mobile, Telekom’s mobile service brand also favours football fans visiting the Football European Cup matches in Poland or the Ukraine: the company developed a special discount package for those travelling in these countries. Customers holding a  Travel & Talk tariff package can activate the Football European Cup 2012 roaming discount scheme (paying a one-off activation fee) within the between June 1- July 1, 2012, receiving 30 percent discount when calling Hungary from any partner network in Poland or the Ukraine, or calling these countries from Hungary during the Football European Cup. The discounted terms are not applicable for video calls.

Fan offer for subscribers choosing Interactive TV
Making the user experience even more comprehensive, T-Home developed a special offer to those wishing to change for Interactive TV during the Football European Cup, the Olympic Games, until the end of the summer: in addition to the new Interactive TV subscription with a loyalty period committed, T-Home developed a Fan proposition with HUF 0 monthly fee. Consequently, new Interactive IPTV or Interactive Sat TV subscribers – assuming a loyalty commitment for the TV package – the cost of the Premium TV package – offering recordable, pauseable and rewindable live program – and the HD package – offering extremely sharp images – is available at HUF 0 monthly fee until August 31, 2012. (From September 1, 2012 the monthly fee of the HD package is HUF 2,000 while the Premium option ¹ costs monthly HUF 1,000 according to the relevant General Terms and Conditions.)

Fan club in the Budapest City Park
Cheering and supporting can be experienced in a community by those visiting possibly the coolest, free of charge fan club of the summer season during the Football European Cup on the City Park promenade.
Thousands of people can support their favourite teams in the heart of the almost 200 years old City Park, beside the beautifully renewed building of the Budapest Ice Rink, on an almost 1,000 square meter jetty built above the lake with boats. Visitors to the Fan Club can enjoy the matches in HD quality on Samsung LED television sets.
Unmatched entertainment is guaranteed by the special food and drink assortment, the location on the lake, as well as concerts, salsa and funky events. Telekom and T-Home fans can support their teams on a separate jetty, in an exclusive lounge – or even in virtual space, using the Couch Sector application.

More information about the Couch Sector application: www.igazirajongok.hu and www.facebook.com/thomehungary, about the Travel & Talk roaming discount scheme: www.t-mobile.hu, about Interactive TV and fan offers: www.t-home.hu