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 (USD 1.00) 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.
