3G Launching in Greece

Greece's STET Hellas Telecommunications says that it will commercially launch a 3G network on January 27th. The company's UMTS services can be accessed utilizing the Nokia 6650, the Nokia 7600, the Motorola A835 and the Siemens U15 handsets, and will be initially available in the greater Athens and Thessaloniki areas, with UMTS availability in Patra and Irakleion to follow shortly.

STET Hellas' unique 3G tariff plan, TELESTET 3G 70, is designed to enable users to sample various 3G services by offering them 70 minutes of bundled-voice airtime, 40 megabytes of WAP and Web browsing and 15 MMS at a competitive tariff of US$48 per month, with a promotional monthly fee of US$29 for all new customers subscribing to the service up to August 1, 2004. No subsidy will be offered for the TELESTET 3G 70 tariff plan.

"Today, is an important milestone in the evolution of mobile services in Greece and it is fitting that STET Hellas- as Greece's pioneer of innovative telecommunications solutions, is first to commercially launch 3G services," noted Mr. Dimitris Papagiannopoulos, Chief Commercial Officer of STET Hellas. "We remain at the forefront of Greece's mobile telephony, fully exploiting all the benefits of this new technology for our customers."

Posted to the site on 23rd January 2004