Info-Quest announces the first official data regarding its operation in the telecommunications sector.

Q-Telecom, the telecommunication network of Info-Quest has launched on June 19th 2002. During the summer period the emphasis was given to the expansion of the sales network nationally resulting to more than 800 points of sale today (including and the 350 shops of the subsidiary ACS).

Following Q-Telecom's commercial inauguration at the end of September the marketing campaign of the network services was initiated, with the advertisement and promotion of sales, resulting to a substantial increase of the rate of new connections from the beginning of October.

Q-Telecom's customer base at the 30th of September 2002 the following:

• The mobile connections reached 12.253 thereof 7.849 were prepaid customers and 4.404 were contract customers.
• The fixed line connections reached 4.698 all being contact customers using Q-Telecom's network through the four digit carrier selection code 1765.

The management of the company considers satisfying the course of the first months of operation considering the fact of the summer period and the absence of the consumers in vacations.

The company advances methodically giving particular emphasis to the further deployment of the sales network as well as of the infrastructure telecom network which constitute the foundations of its development, and expects its connections to grow at high rates in the coming quarters.