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The international UMTS roaming service for videotelephony keeps Vodafone customers in visual contact, whether they're on the ski slopes, sightseeing or simply escaping the stresses of everyday life. If both parties to the call have videotelephony capable mobile phones and UMTS network coverage, Vodafone customers in other countries can keep up to date on what's happening at home. Videotelephony now enables telephone calls with video images from and to other countries in a total of 17 partner networks, including networks outside Europe.

Vodafone launched international videotelephony in June 2004 with four European Vodafone UMTS networks. Now, the Dsseldorf-based company has gone one step further and extended its international videotelephony service to include a total of 17 partner networks, some of which are outside Europe. It's the perfect offer for the holiday season: video calls from Germany to other countries and vice-versa will be billed at voice tariffs with no extra charge during the introductory phase until 15 April 2005. This also applies for video calls within Germany.*

The high-speed UMTS transmission rates enable the parties to see each other during the call - provided that they both have videotelephony capable phones and UMTS network coverage - irrespective of whether the video call is made from one of the overseas networks listed below to Germany or vice-versa. There are no more obstacles to the transmission of live images of ski stunts or of the world's most beautiful cities.**

Up until 15 April 2005, both video calls within the German Vodafone UMTS network and video calls from and to the overseas Vodafone networks can be made for the price of voice calls. This means that a video call from Germany to a German Vodafone customer in Portugal costs the same as a normal mobile phone call within the German Vodafone network. The person receiving the video call in Portugal pays the costs for its onward routing in the foreign network, which is billed in the same way as an international voice call.

The billing procedure for Vodafone customers located in other countries is as follows: an outgoing video call from the overseas Vodafone network is billed in precisely the same way as an outgoing voice call. Similarly, the customer does not pay any more for an incoming video call than he would for a conventional incoming mobile telephone call. In short: Vodafone customers can enjoy videotelephony at voice call rates throughout the entire holiday period.

International videotelephony is possible in the following networks:

Vodafone Greece
Vodafone UK
Vodafone Ireland
Vodafone Italy
Vodafone Netherlands
Vodafone Portugal
Vodafone Sweden
Vodafone Spain
SFR France
SmarTone Hong Kong
Partner Communications Israel
Mobilkom Austria
T-Mobile Austria
Polkomtel Poland
TMN Portugal
MobileOne Singapore
Singtel Singapore
Information graphics on the subject of videotelephony can be found at: http://www.vodafone.de/unternehmen/presse/35173.html

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* Only when both parties to the call have videotelephony capable phones and UMTS network coverage. Until 15.04.2005, video calls will be billed at the price of national voice calls in the relevant tariffs. As of 16.04.2005, the maximum rate per minute is 80 cents for calls within the Vodafone D2 network and to the German landline network, and EUR 1.20 for calls to other German mobile networks. In the Vodafone 50/100/200/500 packages, 1 minute of national videotelephony corresponds to 2 minutes of voice telephony; for calls made to other German mobile networks, the maximum rate is always EUR 1.20 .
After 15.04.2005, calls made from overseas networks to the German Vodafone D2 network will be billed at the overseas network operator's tariff, plus a 25 processing surcharge.

* If the location has network coverage and both parties use videotelephony capable phones. Vodafone already provides UMTS network coverage in 700 German cities, and it is continually extending its international UMTS network.