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Onet and Rebtel to Provide Polish Users with Revolutionary Solution for Calling Abroad


    Rebtel Networks AB, the new way to call friends and
    family worldwide with a mobile phone for $1 per week, and Grupa
    Onet.pl SA, owner of Poland's leading Internet portal, Onet.pl, today
    announced a long-term strategic partnership that will create an
    OnetRebtel Web site exclusively for the Polish market.
    Today, Onet launched a special link to www.rebtel.com for users of
    the Onet.pl portal, enabling consumers in Poland, and the Polish
    community abroad to make unlimited international calls for just $1 per
    week plus a cost of the local connection.
    "With millions of Polish people living all over the world, the
    OnetRebtel international calling offer is going to be amazing. We
    always strive to provide our customers with the best possible service
    at the best possible price -- wherever they are! Rebtel is a great
    company with a strong vision for competitive communication, and we are
    pleased to have them as our partner," said Lukasz Wejchert, Onet
    president and CEO. "I am convinced that together with Rebtel we will
    change the way Polish people stay in touch with their close ones
    abroad and with home when traveling or working outside of Poland."
    Said Rebtel Co-founder and CEO Hjalmar Winbladh: "Onet.pl is
    clearly the premier online venue for everything best about Poland. No
    one serves the Polish people at home and abroad better than Onet.pl,
    which makes our partnership a match made in heaven."
    The OnetRebtel offering will be supported with a significant
    multi-media advertising campaign.

    Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

    How Rebtel works

    Rebtel gives people local phone numbers in their country to call
    their friends and family who live abroad.
    By making all calls local, friends and family can call each other
    as often as they like and talk as long as they want at the cost of the
    local calls.
    Using Rebtel costs $1 per week -- but only for the weeks the
    service is used. If one week a customer does not make calls they are
    not charged for that week.

    Getting started using Rebtel is very easy:

    1. People sign up for a Rebtel account at rebtel.onet.pl.

    2. They enter the mobile phone numbers for their friends or family
    who live abroad.

    3. Local numbers are created and sent in text messages (SMS) to
    their phones.

    That means, for example, Rebtel gives someone living in Chicago a
    local Chicago phone number to call their friend in Warsaw; and Rebtel
    gives the person living in Warsaw a local Warsaw phone number to call
    their friend in Chicago.

    REBin -- Free global calls

    When the person in Chicago calls their friend in Warsaw, they ask
    their friend -- while they stay on the line -- to hang up and call
    right back using the Warsaw phone number displayed on the screen of
    their phone (which is the same number they were sent in a text
    message).

    When that happens:

    -- The person in Chicago is making a local call in Chicago,

    -- Their friend in Warsaw is making a local call in Warsaw,

    -- Rebtel connects those two local calls over the Internet, and

    -- The international minutes are free.

    REBin calls (when the person who receives the call hangs up and
    calls back) can be made today between more than 35 countries around
    the world.

    REBout -- Cheap global calls

    Customers can use Rebtel's REBout service to call friends and
    family anywhere in the world.
    They simply use their local number to call their global friend.
    But with REBout, there's no hanging up or hanging on. They just stay
    on the line and talk. However, in addition to paying their carrier for
    the local call, the person making the call also has to pay Rebtel a
    tiny per-minute fee for the international minutes, which varies
    depending on the country being called.

    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 Networks AB is a new global voice services company for
    individuals, micro-business professionals, and cord-cutters inside
    small and large businesses, who regularly call friends, family or
    business colleagues abroad. Unlike the large mobile telecom carriers
    charging exorbitant rates to recoup their high costs, Rebtel offers
    ultra low rates for global calling by making all calls local. For more
    information, and to start using Rebtel services, go to www.rebtel.com
    or rebtel.onet.pl.