Europe : It’s perfectly obvious: managers and employees are more efficient if they can work with the applications they need as fast and conveniently in the field or on business trips as in their offices. That’s why they need communications solutions that eliminate the differences between working inside and outside the office.

T-Mobile offers a broad array of innovative products and services to meet these needs under its "Office in your Pocket" slogan. These include state-of-the-art business cell phones with or without a camera, multifunction PDA phones (Personal Digital Assistant) as the devices in the MDA family, solutions for mobile email communications, data cards for laptops as well as mobile broadband data circuits based on reasonable, transparent tariffs.

"’Office in your Pocket’ is T-Mobile’s response to the information and communications needs of growing customer groups who want to work in the same way on the road and in the office," says René Obermann, Chairman of the Board of Management, T-Mobile International AG & Co. KG. "T-Mobile’s offers give users swift, easy access to Office functionalities based on reliable anytime, anywhere mobile connections."

One of the highlights in T-Mobile’s “Office in your Pocket” portfolio are the MDA models. At the end of 2004, T-Mobile had already sold more than 100,000 MDA communicators in Europe. With a market share of over 40 percent, T-Mobile and its MDA are market leader in PDA phones in Germany. T-Mobile is expected to be the first mobile network operator to introduce an MDA IV this summer. This mini PC will be the world’s first mobile device to integrate all three mobile technologies: GPRS (General Packet Radio Service), UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) and WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network). It will also feature a VGA display, full-size keyboard and the Windows Mobile operating system.

Other key products in the “Office in your Pocket” portfolio are the SDA, T-Mobile’s E-Mail Push-Service and the Communication Center. The E-Mail Push-Service ensures that emails are forwarded automatically and promptly to mobile devices such as the BlackBerry handheld, MDA III or, in the future, MDA IV. This means that users can react quickly to important emails and answer them while they wait. The T-Mobile Communication Center truly shifts laptop communications into top gear: the solution comprises a PC plug-in card with GPRS/UMTS/WLAN and further optimized communication software, giving users mobile broadband access to Internet and intranet. Integrated standard tariffs that apply to data exchange in all the T-Mobile networks, round off the portfolio of products and services.

T-Mobile delivers three powerful mobile technologies for mobile data transmission: GPRS, UMTS, and WLAN. It aims to achieve seamless mobility, integrated communications across all three multimedia networks. T-Mobile is the only mobile operator that sees the technologies as equally important, and therefore also opts to provide WLAN technology with its ultra high bandwidth of up to eleven megabits per second. "We want to offer our customers more than UMTS, that’s why WLAN also plays a key role in our strategic orientation," René Obermann comments. "Our present about 11,000 HotSpot locations differentiate us clearly from our main competitors. We plan to consolidate this advantage and to increase the number of HotSpot locations around the globe to about 20,000 by the end of 2005." Through its HotSpots, the company offers customers comparable data transmission speeds at a range of hotels and airports as in their corporate networks.