Pressemeldung E-Plus:
ZitatE-Plus Mobilfunk GmbH&Co. KG and MobilCom GmbH have signed an agreement today regarding the cancellation of their national roaming contract. Herewith all the obligations from the contract have been relinquished.
It has been agreed upon that in return for the cancellation, MobilCom will pay EUR 210 million in cash to E-Plus. The cash will be received in five installments: EUR 20 million in December 2002, EUR 110 million in January 2003 and a further EUR 80 million spread evenly over the years 2004 until 2006, payable January of each year.
The payments are guaranteed by France Telecom. This agreement is conditional upon the approval of the restructuring plan for MobilCom at its general shareholders meeting scheduled for January 30th, 2003, and a settlement agreement between Mobilcom AG, France Telecom and several other companies to be entered into November 30th 2002 at the latest.
Under the national roaming contract MobilCom customers were given the opportunity until the end of 2012 to use wireless voice and data services on the E-Plus GSM/GPRS network outside the network coverage of MobilCom.