Another T-Mobile Golf Tour Event, This Time at Karlštejn

• Results to be processed digitally for the first time within a prestigious golf tour and the Czech Republic

Prague, 8 August 2003 - The fourth event within this year's T-Mobile Golf Tour will take place on Saturday 9 August on the eighteen-hole golf course at Karlštejn. For the first time in the Czech Republic, a special digital technology will be used to process the results based on the data filled in by players on the score cards.

The system, which has been developed by scanservice (www.scanservice.cz) in co-operation with Fujitsu-Siemens and other partners, brings a number of benefits. In addition to the fact that the data no longer have to be copied manually from the scorecards to the computer, the system uses a number of control mechanisms which cannot be used if the data are copied manually. The system thus eliminates human errors, while offering increased convenience and a higher processing speed.

The core of the system is the Kodak i50 scanner which is able to scan any document quickly and in a high quality – in this case the score card printed on cardboard paper. After scanning, the manually filled-in data are automatically recognized and a checked for the quality of recognition of the individual figures for the entire selected group of digital images of the scorecards. After that, the data obtained are sent to the server and the tournament results are updated online immediately.

The fifth T-Mobile Golf Tour will close at the Karlovy Vary Golf Resort with the T-Mobile Finals Cup. After the end of the tournament, the winners of the final event as well as the whole tour will be presented with the prizes.

To golf fans, T-Mobile offers SMS Golf Info, which is a service providing information on individual golf tour events via SMS, for example dates, numbers of players and results. For more information on the T-Mobile Golf Tour, visit www.t-mobile.golf.cz.

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Jiří Hájek                                               Martina Kemrová
Vice President Corporate                  Communication Head of External Communication
T-Mobile Czech Republic a.s.           T-Mobile Czech Republic a.s.
E-mail: ji.hajek@t-mobile.cz              E-mail: martina.kemrova@t-mobile.cz
Tel.: 603 620 130                                 Tel.: 603 620 150

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T-Mobile Czech Republic, a member of the international telecommunications group Deutsche Telekom, has almost 6.2 million customers, the number-one operator in the Czech market. T-Mobile is an integrated operator: in addition to telecommunications services, it offers comprehensive ICT solutions not only for companies, but also for other organizations and individuals. It provides outstanding services in the high-speed network, which was proved repeatedly by benchmark testing performed by umlaut (former P3) with Best-in-Test seal.

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