TeliaSonera Finland Introduces New 3G Service Packages

Europe Finland : The bundling of 3G phones and mobile subscriptions, which from April 1 is allowed for the first time in Finland, provides customers with a new way of acquiring a mobile phone plus subscription and services in one package from Sonera. At the same time, the pricing model for Sonera mobile subscriptions for consumers will be renewed.

"The bundling of 3G phones, services and subscriptions is an opportunity to modernize the terminal device base in Finland. Potentially this paves the way for an increased usage of more advanced mobile services, as pre-configured 3G phones lower the barrier of service usage," says Juho Lipsanen, President of TeliaSonera Finland.

TeliaSonera Finland's new Sonera service packages comprise a 3G phone with pre-installed service settings and a subscription suitable to the phone:

-- For consumers, a new Sonera Parempi Paiva ("Better Day") subscription is available. The monthly charge for the subscription is EUR 9.90 and the call rate is EUR 0.089/minute (text messages EUR 0.089/each). The subscription has an opening charge of EUR 0.049/call. The period of agreement is either 12 or 24 months. The mobile phone models offered are Nokia N70, Nokia 6280, Nokia 6630, Nokia 6680, Samsung Z140 and Z300, and Sony Ericsson K600i. The phone prices vary between 119 and 390 euros, depending on the phone and the agreement period. Special prices will be offered to the Gold and Silver level customers in the Sonera Etu loyalty program.

-- For business customers, Sonera offers a managed and secure service package that includes services, phones and subscriptions for mobile work. Companies can now effectively solve their mobile work needs with these new service packages. The user receives the services and phones pre-installed in an easy and secure way. Sonera has tailored three kinds of packages for business customers to simplify their mobile work needs, including phones, services and subscriptions.

New 3G Services

"We want to offer our customers easy to use service packages which are also easy to understand. The new services we are also launching today - mobile TV, a mobile music service and video calls - are all typical services for use on 3G phones," says President Juho Lipsanen.

With the Mobile TV service, Sonera customers can watch all the programmes of Nelonen, TV news broadcasts of YLE, The Voice Music-TV and news and current affairs programmes of MTV3.

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