<DIV id=colmiddle>GenionUnique in the German market, O2 Genion is built around a location-based "Homezone" concept that allows mobile customers to pay fixed network rates for calls initiated from their "home" area. Most new contract customers elect to take this innovative service and it has attracted more than 2.3 million subscribers since its introduction in July 1999. These include major customers in the business sector such as Caritas Stuttgart, Voith Turbo and Thüringer Energie AG. The service was relaunched in June 2005 with a streamlined pricing structure and a new tariff option and package. Here customers benefit from cheaper calls to friends on the O2 network by using a new call option, Inside O2. Genion, in combination with O2 Germany's mobile broadband product surf@home, also allows the consumer to surf the internet and talk at home without the need for a fixed line, using the UMTS network. Pioneered by O2 Germany, surf@home is the first product of its kind in Europe to integrate 3G and wireless LAN technologies into a single, compact box for use in the home or office. Customers simply use their PC, PDA or notebook across a wireless LAN via the box and out over the 3G network to access the Internet at speeds of up to six times greater than ISDN. </DIV><DIV id=colright><DIV class=colrightwidthsetter>Related links<DIV class=title>Useful tools</DIV><DIV class=rightcontent><DIV class=padtopbot7px></DIV></DIV><DIV class=title>Key content in O2 services</DIV><DIV class=rightcontent><DIV class=padtopbot7px>O2 games arcade O2 Active Xda range </DIV></DIV> </DIV></DIV> |