Kabel Deutschland, Germany’s largest cable television company, announced a new mobile offering for their customers in Germany, thereby entering the quadruple play market. A quadruple play service combines the triple play service of broadband Internet access, television and telephone with wireless service provisions.
Kabel Deutschland starts mobile service offering with O2 Germany
The mobile service at present is available only for KDG Kabel Internet & Phone subscribers and is dubbed as Mobile Phone. The tariff offered by the operator has no monthly costs. The subscribers will also enjoy free on-net calls to KDG telephony subscribers and other Mobile Phone subscribers. The calls will be offered to other German fixed and mobile networks at EUR 0.15 per minute. For EUR 4.99 a month, the subscribers will get a flatrate for calls to German fixed networks.
SMS within Germany will be charged at EUR 0.15/SMS and every cable subscribers can order up to five Sim cards. The activation for those Sim cards is EUR 9.99 per card. KDG also offers a mobile internet daily flatrate for EUR 2.50 per day, which costs EUR 1.99 per day as introduction offer.
Jörn Krieger of RapidTV News has more details on the story:
“The services are provided through the mobile network of O2 Germany, a KDG spokeswoman explained. It was rumoured in March that KDG plans a partnership with the subsidiary of Spanish telco Telefónica.
KDG is the first cable operator in Germany to offer a quadruple-play package of TV, internet, fixed line and mobile telephony, thereby stepping up competition with ADSL providers such as United Internet, Arcor, HanseNet and NetCologne, which are already offering mobile phone tariffs in combination with broadband internet access.”
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