O2 offers free SIM to SIM calling within a group of up to seven friends
Oct 2, 2009
Telefónica O2 introduces the new O2 SIM to SIM service for making and receiving phone calls with friends and family. With this every customer gets the opportunity to make free calls to up to seven O2 numbers within a group for one monthly fee. The offer starts on October 15, 2009 and is available to both postpaid customers and customers using the prepaid O2 karta.
"With the O2 SIM to SIM service we are offering customers the opportunity to communicate with friends and family without interruption, at any time of the day, any day of the week. Every member of the group pays the same monthly fee regardless of the number of members in their group. This means that the more people there are in the group, the more advantageous the service becomes for each of them. They each pay the fee for themselves, which is especially fair for calling among friends," says Jan Karas, Segment Marketing Director, Telefónica O2.
O2 SIM to SIM offers advantageous mutual calling at any time, with no time limits. In connection with the O2 NEON tariffs, the service satisfies the telecommunications needs of every mobile customer. The group founder, who adds other members, is a postpaid O2 customer. Both postpaid and prepaid customers can be group members. The O2 SIM to SIM service can be used with most existing and older O2 mobile tariffs, and every customer can be a founder or member of just one group.
The service is easily activated via SMS and members can be added to or removed from a group in the same manner. Every group member is informed of changes to the group through an SMS message. Service activation, deactivation, and member removal are all free.
The monthly fee for using the service is CZK 200. In the event that group members are on the same invoice as the group founder, they pay only half the monthly fee, that is, CZK 100.
At the same time, if the group founder is using any O2 Internet and/or O2 TV service, they can use the service together with one member on the same invoice completely free of charge. Postpaid customers are charged the fee every month; customers using the prepaid O2 karta are informed of the related credit deduction once a week.
Promo offer
With the activation of O2 SIM to SIM by December 31, 2009, every customer gets a 50% discount off the monthly fee for the first three months of service usage. During this period they thus pay only CZK 100 per month.
O2 SIM to SIM Start
The service can also be used in a Start variant, which offers mutual calling within a group of up to seven O2 mobile numbers for the discounted rate of CZK 2.50 per minute for a monthly fee of CZK 50. This fee is the same in all cases and each group member pays for themselves.
Contacts
Martin Žabka
Spokesperson
Telefónica O2 Czech Republic, a.s.
public.relations.cz@o2.com
tel: 800 163 342 (800 1 media)
About Telefónica O2 Czech Republic
Telefónica O2 Czech Republic is a major integrated operator in the Czech Republic. It is now operating more than seven million lines, both fixed and mobile, making it one of the world’s leading providers of fully converged services. The organization offers the most comprehensive portfolio of voice and data services in this country. It is paying special attention to the exploitation of the growth potential, particularly in the data and Internet sector. Telefónica O2 Czech Republic operates the largest fixed and mobile network including a 3rd generation network, CDMA (for data), and UMTS, enabling voice, data and video transmission. Telefónica O2 Czech Republic is also a notable provider of ICT services.
About Telefónica Europe
Telefónica Europe is a business division of Telefónica comprising mobile, fixed, and DSL operations in the UK, Ireland, the Isle of Man, Germany, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia. With the exception of Isle of Man, all the operating businesses use 'O2' as their consumer brand. Telefónica Europe also has 50% ownership of the UK and Irish Tesco Mobile and German Tchibo Mobilfunk joint venture businesses. Telefónica Europe is headquartered in Slough, UK, and has 49 million mobile and fixed customers.
About Telefónica
Telefónica is one of the world’s largest telecommunications operators by market capitalisation. Its activities are centred mainly on the fixed and mobile telephony businesses, while its broadband business is the key growth driver underpinning both. It operates in 25 countries and has a global customer base of 260 million. Telefónica’s growth strategy is focused on the markets in which it has a strong foothold: Spain, Europe and Latin America. Telefónica is a 100% private sector company with its shares listed in Madrid and other stock exchanges and more than 1.5 million individual shareholders.
