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T-Mobile offers Internet telephony option

Jun 02, 2009

Offer available to Combi and Complete customers from summer
VoIP option from EUR 9.95 per month

From the summer of 2009 T-Mobile customers in possession of the necessary equipment will be able to call via the Internet. With the new option for the Combi and Complete rate families, T-Mobile is now making it possible to call using Voice-over-IP (VoIP). The price for this additional option is staggered depending on the customer's contract and begins at EUR 9.95 per month. This option allows T-Mobile customers to use the VoIP services of different providers.

"In this way, we are building a bridge between the different customers’ needs for the most competitively-priced and innovative services," said Georg Pölzl, Managing Director of T-Mobile Deutschland. Additional investment in the network is necessary for simultaneous, "always on" use of VoIP applications. "It would not be fair to customers who don't use VoIP if these additional costs were to be shared across all customers. For this reason, we are making it possible to use Internet telephony via optional rates, while keeping it otherwise barred."

All network operators have invested many billions of euros in the roll-out of their networks in recent years. These investments were based on rate costings with income from voice telephony and mobile data. "If this basis is no longer certain, then neither is the operational future of the networks. T-Mobile wants to continue offering its customers state-of-the-art technology in future and needs a reliable basis to do so," said Pölzl, explaining his company’s approach.