POLISH PEOPLE WORLDWIDE GET FREE INTERNATIONAL MOBILE CALLING
OnetRebtel starts mobile calling revolution in Poland
WARSAW, POLAND – December 11, 2006 – For the next three months, Polish people around the world can use their mobile phones to speak with loved ones abroad for nothing more than the cost of two local calls.
"Be smart Polania," said Lukasz Wejchert, Onet president and CEO. "You can pay expensive charges to call Poland with your mobile phones, or you can be smart by joining the OnetRebtel revolution and use your mobile phones and the Internet to bypass the mobile operators. It's your call."
OnetRebtel, www.rebtel.onet.pl, is the result of a long-term strategic partnership announced in September between Grupa Onet.pl SA, owner of Poland's leading Internet portal Onet.pl, and Rebtel Mobile, the world's new mobile company for calling friends and family worldwide.
Instead of talking on their computer, or making expensive fixed line or mobile calls, OnetRebtel lets people use the most personal calling device – the mobile phone – to call friends and family abroad and each only pay for a local call. Two local calls with a free Internet connection in between.
And for the first three months OnetRebtel’s service is free. After that, it's just 3 PLN ($1 USD) a week.
"Onet and Poland where chosen for our first partnership for a reason: there are more than 34.7 million mobile phones in Poland today and more than 14 million Polish people living and working abroad – most with mobile phones, and all want to keep in touch with home," said Hjalmar Winbladh, Rebtel co-founder and CEO. "With OnetRebtel we make friends and family abroad no further away than a local call on a mobile phone."
Added Wejchert, whose Onet.pl portal enjoys 9.7 million unique users per month, including 1.5 million from abroad: "OnetRebtel is unquestionably the cheapest and smartest way to make international mobile calls."
About Onet
Grupa Onet (WSE: GRO) is the leading Polish new media group. Grupa Onet conducts its new media activities through Onet.pl, www.onet.pl, Poland's leading Internet portal, and offers numerous other services of media and communications nature. Onet.pl is part of Poland's leading media group, TVN Group TVN S.A.; WSE: TVN, which apart from Onet, is active in television broadcasting and production.
Portal Onet.pl was founded in June 1996. Onet.pl is the biggest and most popular multimedia portal in Poland. Apart from revenues generated by various marketing services (advertising, e-commerce, search engine marketing), Onet.pl also profits from customer services (fees) such as, content services, e-mail and hosting services, auctions, classifieds and dating services, and telecommunication services. According to the latest available data from Megapanel PBI/Gemius (as of June 2006), 77.0% of Polish Internet users make use of Onet.pl each month, and in June 2006 they accounted for 9.7 million real users. On a monthly basis it records over 2.2 billion page views.
About Rebtel
Rebtel Mobile is the world's new mobile company, connecting mobile phone users around the world by liberating them from their existing operators and charges. Two people. Two local calls. One connection joining them together over the Internet by Rebtel.
With headquarters in Sweden – birthplace of the mobile phone – Rebtel Mobile is backed by Index Ventures and Benchmark Capital, early investors in Skype and eBay. For more information about Rebtel Mobile, and to start using Rebtel services, go to www.rebtel.com.
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