FORNEBU, Norway, Jan. 17, 2003 (PRIMEZONE) -- Telenor (Nasdaq:TELN):
Telenor Mobil will launch the subscription plan Bedrift for business users on January 20. The subscription offers all services useful for a business customer, and implies between four and 21 percent lower minute fares. As a whole, an average business customer gets a five percent price reduction.
"We have been listening to feedback from our customers and made it easier for the business market to choose subscription plan. The price structure is simplified, and the subscription includes the most important services without extra monthly fees, so that everything is ready for use when the customer is in need of it. The purpose is a simple, yet adequate subscription alternative to our business customers," said Sales Director Kjell Sigurd Strandenaes in Telenor Mobil.
Bedrift gives the following advantages:
1. Lower and simple prices
2. NOK 0,69 VAT excl. per minute day and night where most called
(to Telenor Mobil network and fixed line)
3. Lower prices when calling and receiving calls abroad
4. Access to Telenor Mobil Internet
5. Free access to HSCSD, GPRS and WLAN. It's paid for use, not access.
6. Possibility for an extra SIM card for data transfer. This makes it
possible to talk simultaneously with a data transfer
Bedrift is available with or without Datakort (SIM card for data transfers). Customers using the Nomade subscription plan today will automatically be transferred to Bedrift or Bedrift with Datakort, and will thereby achieve a simplified price structure and lower prices. All services of today are included in the new subscription plans. Bedrift will be launched on January 20, although the new monthly fee for the Nomade Pluss customers of today will not be effective before April 1.
Bedrift has a monthly fee reduced to NOK 135. Bedrift with Datakort costs NOK 163.23 a month. Calling prices are NOK 0.69 per minute day and night to mobile phones on the Telenor Mobil network and to fixed lines. Calls to mobile phones in other national mobile operators cost NOK 1.49 per minute. Start up fee is NOK 0.48. All prices are excl. VAT.