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2 New 3G Mobiles for Mobitel

27th October , 2004

Europe : On 12 December 2003 Mobitel was among the first in the world to introduce the third generation mobile communications. Despite the fact that the network, the services and the billing system have already been operative, the pre-commercial operation of Mobitel UMTS followed due to the lack of user friendly UMTS terminals.

In this period the operator was expanding the network, developing services and testing UMTS terminals to launch commercial UMTS at the end of September, offering the UMTS mobile handset Sony Ericsson Z1010 to the subscribers of Mobitel's Student package. It is the students who are the most frequent visitors of Mobitel's multimedia portal Planet and also otherwise most susceptible for novelties in mobile communications. Therefore, they are the ones to most appreciate the advantages of UMTS: videotelephony, fast data transfer (up to 384 kb/s) and consequently a more ffective use of multimedia contents. In October Mobitel UMTS services were already used by 2.588 Mobitel subscribers. Mobitel UMTS users transfer in average 16-times more data a month than the users of the second generation, and four fifths of them are using videotelephony.

Commercial Mobitel UMTS Offer
Beginning with 28 October all Mobitel GSM/UMTS subscribers will now have the possibility to choose between two new UMTS mobile phones: Sony Ericsson Z1010 or the mobile phone quite new to the Slovenian market Samsung SGH Z105U. Both support videotelephony and data transfer at the speed of up to 384 kb/s. Both will be available at promotion price of SIT 59,900 upon entering or extending a subscribtion relation for the period of 24 months. Those entering a subscription to “Mobitel UMTS” package will be able to purchase the phones at an even friendlier price of 9.900 SIT under the same conditions. “Mobitel UMTS” package is intended for everyone that intensively use data transfer.

Therefore the monthly subscribtion fee of SIT 15,000 will cover the transfer of 200 MB of pre-purchased data, 200 minutes of videotelephony in Slovenia, and 200 MMS messages of up to 100 kB, as well as 200 minutes of conversations in Mobitel's networks and 200 minutes of conversations within the subscriber's MPO. The offer includes the Option Globetrotter Fusion PC card, which is one of the few in the world market supporting GSM, GPRS, UMTS, and WLAN networks. It is available to Mobitel's subscribers at promotion price of SIT 69.900 SIT or even for as little as 19.900 SIT to the subscriber that will have the “Mega” or the “Business Mega” data transfer activated during the binding period of 24 months. It is very easy to become a Mobitel UMTS user. All you need is to change the mobile phone, the user can keep the SIM card, the phone number and the selected subscription package with the prices of the existing services remaining unchanged.
Finally the user is only to send an SMS with the word UMTS to the designated number 1918 to activate videotelephony, which is, during the promotion period, still free of charge until further notice.

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