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Disability-Friendly Tariff Package from Telekom
Budapest, May 6, 2014 18:00
The tariff package Magyar Telekom has created for people living with disabilities was the „apropos” of the round-table discussion at the European Day of People with Disabilities. The tariff package offers each people who live with various disabilities special discount and optional modes of use that can be aligned with one’s life situation.
Telekom has specially designed, in cooperation with experts of the non-governmental organisations concerned, the hello holnap! tariff package targeted to people living with disabilities. Taking part in its development have been the Hungarian Association of Deaf and Hard of Hearing (SINOSZ), National Federation of Disabled Persons (MEOSZ), Hungarian Federation of the Blind and Particularly Sighted (MVGYOSZ), and the Hungarian Association for Persons with Intellectual Disability (ÉFOÉSZ), whose professional cooperation is a guarantee that the service has been adapted to the needs of the total pool of people living with disabilities.
The offer can be adapted to those living with impaired vision and hearing by selecting various sizes of sound, SMS and data package versions, depending on their individual needs. Each of the various arrangements is accompanied by some special tariff discount.
Tariffs of the tariff packages are available through both monthly charged and Domino subscriptions, either with a new contract or by amending an existing contract. The tariff package can only be ordered in person, by presenting the empowering document of being a member of the federations of people living with disabilities: SINOSZ, MVGYOSZ, MEOSZ, ÉFOÉSZ.
The birth of the hello holnap! tariff package was announced by Iván Rózsa, Telekom’s corporate communications director on May 5, on the occasion of the Equal Opportunity Day, at the round table meeting organised with the participation of government representatives, media and the people affected. „As a leading telecommunication service provider we take it as our responsibility to create equal opportunities also in the area of digital solutions. It is our important goal to improve digital literacy among people with disabilities as well, as close to six hundred thousand of them live among us in Hungary”, said Iván Rózsa.