Extel awards

significant Awards for ΟΤΕ for a second year in a row

 at the annual Extel Europe 2013 rankings

ATHENS, Greece -June 25, 2013 - Hellenic Telecommunications Organization SA (ASE: HTO, OTC MARKET: HLTOY), announces that its performance was rewarded with high rankings, for a second time in a row, in the 2013 Thomson Reuters Extel Europe Investor Relations Survey.

OTE's Group CFO, Mr. Babis Mazarakis, was voted by the European analysts the best CFO for Investor Relations, and OTE's IRO, Mr Dimitris Tzelepis was voted, for a second time in a row and for the fourth time since 2007, the best Investor Relations Professional in Greece.

The Thomson-Extel annual Investor Relations Survey is considered the most prestigious and independent Investor Relations performance evaluation, since 250 investement banks and 2,500 institutional investors vote throughout Europe, USA and Asia. The process is monitored and ratified by the auditing firm Deloitte, while the votes are calculated according to the significance and the size of the company of each participant, ensuring in this way the objectiveness of the evaluation.

OTE Group is Greece's leading telecommunications organization and one of the pre-eminent players in Southeastern Europe, providing top-quality products and services to its customers.

Apart from serving as a full service telecommunications group in the Greek telecoms market, OTE Group has also expanded during the last decade its geographical footprint throughout South East Europe, acquiring stake in the incumbent telecommunications company of Romania, and establishing mobile operations in Albania, Bulgaria, and Romania. At present, companies in which OTE Group has an equity interest employ more than 27,500 people in four countries, and our portfolio of solutions ranges from fixed and mobile telephony to Internet applications, satellite, maritime communications and consultancy services.

OTE shares are listed on the Athens Stock Exchange, and the London Stock Exchange (in the form of GDRs). Following their delisting from NYSE in September 2010, the company's ADRs trade in the US OTC market. OTE's American Depositary Receipts (ADR's) represent ½ ordinary share.

Additional Information is also available on http://www.ote.gr.

Contacts:

Dimitris Tzelepis - Head of Investor Relations

Tel: +30 210 611 1574, Email: dtzelepis@ote.gr

Maria Kountouri - Assistant to the Head of Investor Relations

Tel: +30 210 611 5381, Email: mkountouri@ote.gr

Kostas Maselis - Senior Financial Analyst, Investor Relations

Tel: + 30 210 611 7593, Email: kmaselis@ote.gr

Christina Hadjigeorgiou - Financial Analyst, Investor Relations

Tel: +30 210 611 1428, Email: cchatzigeo@ote.gr 

 Sofia Ziavra - Financial Analyst, Investor Relations

Tel: + 30 210 611 8190, Email: sziavra@ote.gr

Daria Kozanoglou - Senior Communications & Regulatory Affairs Officer,

Investor Relations

Tel: +30 210 611 1121, Email: nkozanoglou@ote.gr

Eftychia Tourna - Communications & Regulatory Affairs Officer, Investor Relations

Tel: +30 210 611 7236, Email:etourna@ote.gr

Eleni Agoglossaki - Communications & Regulatory Affairs Officer, Investor Relations

Tel: +30 210 611 7880, Email: eagoglossak@ote.gr