Press Releases

Budapest, August 10, 2000

On August 10, 2000, MATÁV will extend its Voice Mail service. The new supplementary services will be available as standard without any extra charge, monthly subscription fee or usage fee to the more than 215,000 existing Voice Mail subscribers, as well as to all those intending to sign up for this service in the future.

In the future, the Voice Mail system will also, assuming the calling party has agreed to the disclosure of their number, indicate the numbers from which the calls have been received prior to playing the messages. The Voice Mail Call Number Recorder will also keep records of the numbers from which a call has been made without leaving a message (again, as-suming the calling party has agreed to the disclosure of their number). This means that Voice Mail service users will also be notified of calls re-ceived where no message was left. Also in such case, the system will state the numbers from which a call has been initiated.

The third new feature in Matáv's Voice Mail service is the Voice Mail Call Completion feature. Once the message or the recorded call number is listened to, the system will, by pressing the '0' key, automatically dial the number from which a call has been initiated in the subscriber's absence. Such calls will be charged at the regular call rate (switching fee plus the charge for the period of the call).