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Amena Introduces Commercial 3G

1st November , 2004

Europe : Amena, in Spain, has launched 3g-umts technology in 20 cities : Alicante, To Corunna, Barcelona, Bilbao, Gijón, Granada, Hospitalet, the Palms of Great Canary, Madrid, Malaga, Murcia, Oviedo, Palma de Mallorca, Pamplona, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Seville, Valencia, Vigo, Vitoria and Zaragoza, which supposes to offer these services to 26% of the Spanish population.

Before end of year, Amena it will extend the cover to Almeria, Cordova, San Sebastián, Santander and Valladolid, with which it will cover with his network UMTS 33% with the Spanish population. At the end of 2006, Amena one it will offer cover UMTS to 91% of the Spanish population.

New services UMTS contribute important advantages to the users: greater speed (up to 384 Kbps), greater capacity and better quality in the images and sounds. Amena videollamada presents/displays in its supply the new service of movable-movable, that simultaneously allows the communication between two users who see by means of a camera on the telephone and the called service video fix-movable and movable-I fix entreclientes of Amena and Auna, that multimedia between a 3g-umts telephone and a user of PC with a camera webcam and connection to Internet allows to the communication. Auna group becomes the first operator in Spain in offering a service of these characteristics.

The clients of Amena will be able to enjoy an ample variety of contents of video and streaming in the launching, between which they emphasize: soccer, information of traffic, games and the news in direct. LAUNCHING PROMOTION the supply of launching for particular clients is composed by a terminal Sony Ericsson Z 1010, 1,000 videomensajes free, 500 euros in gratuitous traffic of data to the month during three months and video called to 0.25 euros per minute during all the life, to a price of 399 euros for clients of contract and 499 for prepayment clients.

The supply of launching for company clients includes a terminal Sony Ericsson Z 1010, 500 euros in gratuitous traffic of data to the month during three months and video called to 0.25 euros per minute during all the life, to a price of 349 euros. For the clients who only wish to acquire a card PCMCIA of data UMTS, the price of promotion it is of 89 euros with 500 euros of gratuitous traffic of data to the month during three months.

This promotion completes with the supply of two terminals Sony Ericsson Z a 1010 by 599 euros and package of two terminals and one PCMCIA of data UMTS by 649 euros, both with 500 euros in gratuitous traffic of data to the month during three months and video called to 0.25 euros minute during all the life. The tariffs available for new services UMTS are: - Leisure Dates: 20? by Megabyte, without commitment of monthly consumption. - Datalibre 12: 1? by Megabyte, with a commitment of minimum consumption of 12?/mes. - Datalibre 24: 0,5? by Megabyte, with a commitment of minimum consumption of 24 / month.

Amena account at the present time with more than 700 points of sale for individuals and companies in the cities in which it has cover UMTS. On the other hand, Amena it has developed centers of innovation 3g-umts next to sharpshooting organizations in his sector and the use of the new technologies like Hispanic Central Santander, City council of Seville, Generalitat de Catalunya and Godó Group. These centers of innovation have served to adapt the new 3g-umts technology as much to the necessities of the users like of the business. One of the experiences has been developed next to the City council of Seville in the following areas of development: televigilancia of buildings public, called video fix-movable, movable-I fix, access to data at high speed, complete management of the maintenance yreparaciones in buildings, domóticas solutions and the creation of the?Canal Seville.

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