t-music Stage: New portal for musicians

• At www.stage.cz, any band can create a profile free of charge and place its music on the website
• Every month, the most successful musicians can win three days in Chicsound, a professional recording studio
• T-Mobile to offer amateur-produced music as Caller Tunes, ringtones and full tracks

Prague, 12 June 2007 - T-Mobile has launched a new internet portal for all music fans at www.stage.cz. This is a community website that allows hundreds of amateur musicians, bands and DJs of all genres to present their music free of charge. Also, there are attractive rewards for the most successful musicians: every month, they can win a recording session in a recording studio or offer their songs to T-Mobile customers in the form of full tracks, ringtones or Caller Tunes.

"Support for music, and not only the mainstream, has been our focus over the long term. The new Stage.cz portal will allow talented musicians who haven't yet been discovered to address their existing and new audience, as well as recording companies through the most-visited Czech music website - www.t-music.cz," says Michal Němec, Vice President Mobile Portal and Content Services at T-Mobile.

At present, the portal is in its first phase when bands and solo artists can create their profiles free of charge. In addition to information about themselves and their music, they can add information on scheduled concerts and festivals where they will perform, or they can simply blog. Bands or solo artists that create their profiles at stage.cz as the 30^th, 100^th, 250^th and 500^th in sequence, will receive from t-music a voucher for five recording days in the Chicsound studio free of charge.

The portal at www.stage.cz will be officially launched in the second half of June. Customers will be able to listen to hundreds of unsigned musicians. Each month, the most popular song will be selected based on how much it has been played and the author will spend three recording days in the Chicsound studio free of charge. 

In addition, the composers of the ten most popular songs or clips can place their hits in the T-Mobile music offer. Fans will thus be able to buy the whole song at the t-music e-shop, PLAY!, or download it as a ringtone or Caller Tune. T-Mobile is the first operator in the Czech Republic to offer the music of unsigned musicians to its customers.

The portal is well arranged according to genres and home regions. The homepage provides information on upcoming performances of the bands that you can find on this website in individual regions of the Czech Republic. Fans can now easily find their favorite musicians by placing the artist's name after the slash in www.stage.cz/. They will thus have a unique opportunity to be even closer to the bands they like.

For more information, visit www.stage.cz.

t-music
t-music represents all music-related activities of T-Mobile intended particularly for young people for whom music comprises an important part of their lives. t-music is the most-visited music portal offering TV and radio charts and the largest e-shop with digital music, PLAY!. Through t-music, T-Mobile presents concerts of leading Czech and foreign artists, supports music festivals and events, new singers, bands and amateur artists.

For more information, see www.t-music.cz.

T-Mobile Czech Republic, a member of the international telecommunications group Deutsche Telekom, has almost 6.2 million customers, the number-one operator in the Czech market. T-Mobile is an integrated operator: in addition to telecommunications services, it offers comprehensive ICT solutions not only for companies, but also for other organizations and individuals. It provides outstanding services in the high-speed network, which was proved repeatedly by benchmark testing performed by umlaut (former P3) with Best-in-Test seal.

T-Mobile Czech Republic places emphasis on taking a responsible approach to the environment and society. It adheres to fair business practices, helps beneficial applications and services to see the light of day, supports non-profit organizations, small businesses and individuals, and lends a helping hand whenever crisis situations arise. The company’s employees serve as volunteers in many places across the entire Czech Republic.

More information about the company is available at www.t-mobile.cz, www.t-press.cz (the portal for journalists) and www.t-mobile.cz/pomahame (information on the company’s CSR activities).

Contact details of the press unit: press@t-press.cz.