Budapest, July 1, 2005

From July 1, 2005 those living in the servicing area of T-Kábel can also subscribe to telephone service, in addition to cable television and broadband internet services.

From mid-June T-Kábel Magyarország Kft. launched its cable telephone service on a commercial test basis in Szeged, then from June 23 customers can subscribe to the service in Békéscsaba, Békés, Hódmezővásárhely, Makó, and from June 27 also in Esztergom and Dunakeszi.

The service is offered in the above localities to customers who can be accessed on the so-called “backward channel” network, i.e. a network made available for internet access. As a result, over 100 000 households can become cable telephone subscribers. Phone calls can be initiated very simply, by connecting a cable modem provided by the operator to an existing traditional terminal equipment.

The customers of T-Kábel can select from four different packages depending on whether they have a cable television or Kábelnet subscription. The cable telephone service offers free calls within the cable network, no call setup fee is charged, minute fees are much more favorable, and the monthly basic fee can be as low as 1240 HUF, which can bring annual savings of up to 40 000 HUF for certain subscribers.

The new cable telephone subscribers can keep their old phone number and make phone call without prefix.