DGAP-News: Vodafone and telegate agree to a strategic partnership

telegate AG / Alliance/Contract

10.02.2010 12:48

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* Pre-installed directory assistance 11 88 0 on Vodafone mobile devices
* Internet information services for mobile and stationary Local Search.

Duesseldorf/Planegg-Martinsried, February 10, 2010. Vodafone Deutschland
and telegate AG agreed to a cooperation. telegate AG becomes the directory
assistance partner for telephone and SMS directory assistance on all
Vodafone mobile devices with immediate effect. The cooperation is agreed
for a period of 5 years and covers both the classic telephone directory
assistance and the modern digital information services of the stationary
and mobile Internet - telegate becomes the exclusive Local Search partner
of Vodafone Deutschland here.

Vodafone customers have direct access to the pre-installed 11 88 0
directory assistance of telegate via their mobile phones at the press of a
button. They receive information on subscribers as well as various local
extra services, e. g. weather and emergency services or event information.
In addition, the mobile Local Search application ‘klickTel’ is
pre-installed on many Smartphones distributed by Vodafone.

Alternatively, the application is available for download in the download
area of the online portal Vodafone live!. Users have direct access to
mobile Apps, e. g. ‘klickTel for BlackBerry’, ‘klickTel for Android’ or
‘klickTel for Windows Mobile’, with their mobile devices. Thus, they can
search for private or commercial contact information, plan routes and use
reverse search for caller’s name or, GPS-based, the nearest restaurant or
EC automat (ATM). In addition, the Local Search features of
‘www.klicktel.de’ and ‘www.11880.com’ with the offers white pages, yellow
pages and route planning will be an integral part of the Vodafone live!
portal and the online portal ‘www.arcor.de’.

About telegate AG:

telegate AG is a multichannel-provider of local search. The company
extended the classic business sector telephone directory assistance with
information offers on the Internet financed by advertising and additional
digital Media. The company supplies the users in Germany with high-quality
information via the Internet portals 11880.com and klicktel.de, the
telephone directory assistance 11880, the klickTel software as well as via
local search applications for mobile devices. According to the GFK, 11 88 0
is the most known telephone number in Germany with an unaided brand
awareness of approximately 54 percent as well as the leading alternative
provider of telephone directory assistance on the German market with a
market share of approximately 40 percent.

The company as a marketing partner offers tailored advertising consulting
and concepts for all modern directory assistance media. Small and
medium-sized businesses receive a modern ‘One-Stop-Advertising’-offer via
the distribution brand ‘telegate MEDIA’: trade advertising in telegate’s
five directory assistance channels combined with marketing via partners
with a great coverage, e.g. Google. In addition to Germany, telegate is
also successfully established in France, Italy, Austria and Spain today.
The company was launched in 1996 and has been successfully listed on the
Frankfurter Boerse (Frankfurt stock exchange) since 1999 (ISIN:
DE0005118806). The telegate group with more than 3,000 employees generated
total sales of approx. EUR 178.8 m and an annual net income after taxes of
EUR 24.3 m in the fiscal year 2008.

Joerg Kiveris
telegate AG
Head of Public Relations Department
Fraunhofer Str. 12a
82152 Planegg-Martinsried
Germany
Phone: +49 (89) 895-4118 8
Fax: +49 (89) 895-4118 9
E-mail: presse@telegate.com
http://twitter.com/telegate

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Language: English
Company: telegate AG
Fraunhofer Str. 12a
82152 Planegg-Martinsried
Deutschland
Phone: +49 089 - 89 54 0
Fax: +49 089 - 89 54 10 10
E-mail: info@telegate.de
Internet: www.telegate.com
ISIN: DE0005118806
WKN: 511880
Indices: Prime All Share
Listed: Regulierter Markt in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Freiverkehr
in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Hannover, München, Hamburg, Stuttgart

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