New FreeMove offer: simple pricing and innovative services for multinational customers including fixed price Blackberry email roaming

New FreeMove offer: simple pricing and innovative services for multinational customers including fixed price Blackberry email roaming

Orange, Telefónica Móviles, TIM and T-Mobile announce fresh and compelling approach for international business customers

Simple, network-independent roaming tariff structure: world zones deliver transparency and effective cost management

Fixed price roaming package for BlackBerryTM Email users

Central reporting, account management and dedicated customer service

Pan-European advertising campaign to support FreeMove offer

2 November 2004. FreeMove, the mobile alliance formed by Orange, Telefónica Móviles, TIM (Telecom Italia Mobile) and T-Mobile, today announced a new simple, predictable pricing structure for multinational corporations (MNCs) that will help customers to better manage roaming costs for their business travellers.

The alliance, which reaches nearly 170 million managed customers in 20 European territories and some 230 million customers worldwide, has also announced a fixed monthly roaming rate for business users of BlackBerryTM devices, allowing them cost-effective access to email when they travel.

Fernando Panizo, current Chairman of FreeMove Management Board, commented, “These new services sweep away the complexity associated with international mobile call charges and allow business customers to manage their budgets quickly and effectively.”

Simple and Predictable Multi-country Roaming Offer for MNCs

Roaming tariffs normally include a number of elements such as the country visited, the type of roaming call made, whether a call is made or received and, in many cases, which network the roaming user is connected to at the time. For MNC customers, who spend more than €4bn year on mobile communications, considering roaming offers for users based in many countries is often a complex, time-consuming and expensive task.

The FreeMove alliance aims to significantly reduce this complexity and can now offer MNC customers with operations based in the UK, France, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Italy and Spain, a simple and enhanced range of services with predictable tariffs.

The features of the new offering include:

Simple Zoning: Predictable and transparent roaming price plans with a straightforward system of geographic zones

Network Independence: The tariffs are the same regardless of the network which the user’s handset connects to, so there are no surprises

Transparency: There is no fixed per user fee, so customers can apply the scheme to both their frequent and infrequent roamers

Fixed Price Roaming for BlackBerry™ & Email Users

BlackBerry™ users will benefit from simple monthly rates even when they roam, allowing them virtually unlimited access to email. Businesses will benefit from knowing that wherever their BlackBerry™ users are travelling, they will only pay a fixed monthly fee for sending and receiving messages. This is a breakthrough for businesses and will allow them to easily and accurately predict the costs of international BlackBerry™ email use.

Innovative Services for Multi-National Customers

The FreeMove alliance is also moving the mobile communications industry forward with services such as centralised reporting, dedicated support for MNC customers, and a single sales contact. Other improved services for MNCs announced today include:

Consolidated account and bid management to simplify customer service for MNC customers

Advanced international central reporting and analysis, providing customers with a transparent view of their usage and costs across its footprint

A customer support team for MNC customers

The alliance also unveiled a high-profile pan-European advertising campaign that launches today. The campaign, which focuses on the simplicity and transparency of the FreeMove offering for international travellers, will run in national business press in the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands, key pan-European press titles, online and at major airports.

About Orange

Orange and wirefree and any other Orange product or service names included in this material are trademarks of Orange PCS. The Orange group is one of the world’s largest mobile communications companies and a subsidiary of the France Telecom group, with operations in 18 countries across Europe and beyond. It provides a broad range of personal communications services, including Orange GSM1800 services and other digital cellular telephone services. Within the Orange Group, the Orange brand operates in the UK, France, Switzerland, Romania, Slovakia, Thailand, the Ivory Coast, the Dominican Republic, Cameroon, the Netherlands, Botswana, and Madagascar. The Orange group also has controlled operations in Belgium (Mobistar). The Orange group has a joint controlling interest in Egypt (MobiNil) and minority interests in Portugal (Optimus), Austria (One), and Mumbai/India (BPL Mobile). As at the end of September 2004, Orange was the largest mobile operator in both the UK with 13.9 million active customers, and France with 20.6 million registered customers. As at the end of September 2004, Orange controlled companies had over 52 million customers worldwide..Further information about Orange can be found on the Orange website at www.orange.com.

About Telefónica Móviles

Telefónica Móviles manages all the Telefónica Group's cellular assets in the world. It is one of the world's largest mobile telephony operators and leader in the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking markets. It has operations on three continents and a managed customer base of over 68 million (at the end of the first half of 2004) including those of BellSouth's LatAm operators, whose acquisition was agreed in March this year. In 2003 Telefónica Móviles reported 10,070 million euros of operating revenues (+10.2%), EBITDA of 4,463 million euros (+19.5%) and net profit of 1,608 million euros. For further information on Telefónica Móviles, see our website: www.telefonicamoviles.com.

About TIM

TIM (Telecom Italia Group), listed on the Milan stock exchange, is the leading Italian mobile operator with 26 million lines in the domestic market(as of June 30, 2004). With its subsidiaries and associate companies in the Mediterranean basin and in South America, it has reached a total of 49.6 million lines (as of June 30, 2004). In the framework of a competitive scenario noteworthy for its high penetration rate in the domestic market and characterised by a rapid technological development, TIM's attention to innovation confirms its leadership in the traditional voice business while making it one of the fundamental players in the development of the telecommunications industry. Additional information on TIM can be found on www.tim.it.

About T-Mobile

T-Mobile International is one of the world’s leading companies in mobile communications. As one of Deutsche Telekom’s three strategic business areas, T-Mobile concentrates on the most dynamic markets in Europe and the United States. June 30 2004, more than 65 million people were using the mobile communications services provided by its majority owned companies alone (T-Mobile Germany, T-Mobile USA, T-Mobile UK, T-Mobile Austria, T-Mobile Netherlands and T-Mobile Czech Republic). And almost 103 million mobile customers are served by subsidiaries and affiliates of the Deutsche Telekom Group. And all that over a common technology platform based on GSM, the world’s most successful digital wireless standard. This also makes T-Mobile the only mobile communications provider with a seamless transatlantic service. For more information about T-Mobile International, please visit www.t-mobile.net.