T-Mobile returns as head sponsor of the Life Ball

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Culture

The Vienna Life Ball 2012 celebrates its 20th anniversary on 19 May this year under the motto “Fight the Flames of Ignorance”, and for the third year in a row, T-Mobile is the main sponsor of the event. The daughter company of Deutsche Telekom, T-Mobile Austria, is sponsoring the Vienna Life Ball – the largest […]

17-year-old confesses to 17,000 Euro fraud

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General News

A 17-year-old boy has been caught after selling 17,000 Euros worth of electrical equipment that he acquired after forging contracts and identification in Salzburg. For more than a month beginning in April of this year, the boy completed contracts with different mobile network operators in Salzburg under a false name. Through these contracts he received […]

Number of T-Mobile Austria clients rises

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Business

T-Mobile Austria managed to attract almost 10 per cent more new customers last year.The Vienna-based company said today (Fri) it had 3.78 million clients in 2010, up by 9.6 per cent year on year. T-Mobile Austria however also announced that its turnover declined by five per cent to 983 million Euros.T-Mobile is the number one […]

T-Mobile Austria and DDB Tribal team up

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Business

T-Mobile Austria has hired a new marketing agency.The Viennese company said today (Tues) that it will cooperate with DDB Tribal as of 1 March after a seven-year partnership with Publicis.DDB Tribal also works for T-Mobile Germany, Viennese brewery Ottakringer and German consumer products maker Henkel.Alexander Rosenegger of DDB Tribal in Vienna said: “Together we will […]

T-Mobile Austria presents German rate

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Business

Another company has adapted its product range in view of sociological trends as T-Mobile Austria offers a contract aimed at the German community in Austria.The firm said today (Mon) its 19-Euro “Hit Germany” contract model for mobile phones features 1,000 free minutes of calls and 1,000 free text messages from Austria to Germany.The rate is […]

Good news from Austrian IT sector

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Business

Austrian IT companies are in an upbeat mood, a poll has shown.Market research group IDC Austria said today (Fri) that around two thirds of the country’s IT and telecommunications firms expected to be “significantly more successful” this year than they were in 2010. IDC Austria interviewed managers of 182 companies in the field.The Viennese agency […]

Free apps outpace chargeable features

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Lifestyle

Smartphone users prefer free applications (apps), according to a telecommunications businessman.T-Mobile Austria head Robert Chvatal said today (Weds) customers of his company using so-called smartphones downloaded an average 20 apps of which 14 were available free of charge.”Games are the most popular downloads,” Chvatal announced, adding that T-Mobile Austria so far sold 200,000 Apple iPhone […]

T-Mobile turnover shrinks despite more clients

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Business

T-Mobile Austria suffered a decline in turnover in spite of more customers in the first half of this year.The company – the second-biggest mobile services provider in Austria after Mobilkom Austria – said today (Thurs) that turnover edged down by 5.9 per cent between January and June of 2010 compared to the same time span […]