Brussels, 30 April 2004 - 1 May 2004 will be a historical day for the European Union, as it will welcome ten new members. This signifies the reunification of a Europe that has been divided during decades.
For this occasion Mobistar will take care of the videoconference between the Lithuanian president, Arturas Paulauskas, in Vilnius and the new European commissioner for Lithuania, Dalia Grybauskaite, in Brussels. The videoconference will start at 14h10 and will last for 3 minutes. For this event, Mobistar will work in collaboration with the Lithuanian operator Omnitel.
UMTS is the mobile phone of tomorrow that allows, thanks to a broadband transmission, videoconferencing and a multitude of concrete applications, of which some of them are already available today. UMTS will speed up these services and will improve their userfriendlyness. Mobistar is developing its UMTS project in close collaboration with the Orange Group. An experimental network has been deployed in Brussels since a couple of months.