Winter Olympics with Paegas
Prague, 6 February 2002 â?" RadioMobil has introduced a special offer for sports fans within the ClickW@P and Info Plus services. Paegas will cover the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City for mobile phone users and deliver the latest news and stories directly to their mobile phones. In addition to news, results and commentaries on competitions and matches, there is a wide range of Olympics-related picture SMS and logos to choose from.
â?śThe Winter Olympics are just around the corner and there are many sports enthusiasts who want to follow the action as it happens even if they canâ??t watch it on television. Thanks to ClickW@P, all of our customers can obtain virtually live coverage of the Games,â?ť says Jiri Hajek, press spokesman for RadioMobil.
Customers whose mobile phones support WAP can find all news and results from the Olympics in the
ClickInfo/Winter Olympics section, arranged in the following subsections:
- Latest news - Reports and commentaries on recently finished events.
- Daily results: Summary of results of all competitions and matches held on
a particular day.
- Behind the scenes - For those who are interested in behind-the-scenes details
and stories.
- Live coverage - Information on ice hockey and cross country skiing. The
news will be arranged chronologically to allow users to follow the progress
of matches and competitions giving the impression of a live broadcast.
- Ice hockey - Reports on individual matches, results plus commentaries on
the progress of matches and their quality.
- Other sports - Information on other sports will be included in this section,
arranged under the following headings: Cross-country, Biathlon, Nordic combined,
Ski jumping, Alpine skiing, Freestyle, Figure skating, Speed skating, Other
sports.
- Programme - Overview of events scheduled for the next days.
- Czech athletes at Winter Olympics - "Locker room news", or updates on Czech
athletes not covered by the cameras.
Moreover, customers can choose from a wide range of Olympics-related picture SMS and logos in the
ClickFun section,
Winter Olympics subsection. For example, users can send their friends one of the many â?śGoalâ?ť pictures to inform them about a just-scored goal or an â?śItâ??s gold!â?ť phone-display logo to share the joy over a victory.
In addition, all customers can obtain information via
Paegas Info Plus. The Olympics infochannel within Paegas Info Plus can be ordered from 8 to 24 February by sending an SMS in the format +OH to 4616. A subscriber will then receive about 10 to 15 messages a day with Olympics news and results. Two infochannels have been created specially for ice-hockey that will certainly attract the interest of many sports enthusiasts. To subscribe to these channels, a user just sends an SMS with the keyword +Sport H or Sport HI to 4616. Many ice-hockey fans are already familiar with these channels which work during the entire year and deliver basic (Sport H) and extended (Sport HI) news from the world of ice-hockey.
About the Company
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.
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Contact details of the press unit: press@t-press.cz.