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New in August: GPRS Can Be Used in Paegas Network
- GPRS can be used in Paegas network
- New infochannel will look up channels for children
From the beginning of August, Paegas customers can make use of the advantages offered by the high-speed data transmission technology GPRS (General Packet Radio Service). Its main advantage is the fact that the customer pays only for the transmitted data, not for the time of connection. â?žThanks to GPRS the internet will become mobile every sense of the word, and the Paegas network will at the same time pass the milestone of the 2.5 generation of mobile networks, whose representative is exactly the GPRS technology,â?ś explains JiĹ?í Hájek, Corporate Communication Manager of RadioMobil. â?žWe expect that our customers will quickly learn to use the mobile internet connection as well as a whole range of other innovative services that RadioMobil offered them in the past. The data transmission speed in this case can be up to 40.2 kb/s. In a very short time Paegas GPRS will be a competitor of the ISDN connection.
Every user who will connect to the internet, intranet or WAP via a Paegas telephone that supports GPRS will be able to access information more conveniently than before. Paegas GPRS allows a permanent on-line connection without the customer having to dial an access server number before each data transmission. Moreover, the transmission speed is several times higher than with the classic data transmissions in the GSM network.
To access the network, it is necessary to have the APN set up correctly (Access Point Name â?" a parameter defining which services the user is going to access). Paegas offers its clients four different APN connections: APN Internet for internet access, APN Profil for ClickProfil access and information at RadioMobilâ??s website, APN WAP for wap site access; for the customers who have concluded a framework agreement with RadioMobil also offers a secured access to their corporate intranet via a special APN.
At the beginning of August, RadioMobil will offer the first phone that supports GPRS â?" Motorola Timeport 260. During September the customers will be able to choose from the offer of other phones.
RadioMobil is ready to offer GPRS roaming. From 1 August, customers will be offered GPRS roaming in the D1 network of the German T-Mobil.
Customers who will want to use Paegas GPRS can take advantage of two tariffs: the first of them â?" GPRS Basic â?" is without any monthly fee and is suitable for those who will use GPRS mainly for browsing wap sites, the second one â?" GPRS Pro â?" with the monthly fee of CZK 199 is designed for active internet users.
Tariffs for GPRS
| GPRS Basic | GPRS Pro | |
| Activation | CZK 0 | CZK 0 |
| Monthly fee | CZK 0 | CZK 199 |
| APN | ||
| WAP | CZK 0,50/1 kB | CZK 0,30/1 kB |
| Internet | CZK 0,50/1 kB | CZK 0,03/1 kB |
| Profil | CZK 0/1 kB* | CZK 0/1 kB* |
| Fixed IP address | ||
| APN | Activation | Monthly fee |
| Internet | CZK 499 | CZK 149 |
*The transmission is free of charge up to 20 MB monthly within the APN profile. Above this limit the transmission is charged at a rate identical with APN Internet.
The prices are without VAT.
A new infochannel, that will be used especially by families with children, is available within Paegas Info services to Paegas mobile phone owners. Via a short text message customers have now the opportunity to find out information about programmes that are prepared for children at a particular place. The user just sends an SMS in the form DETI_#MESTO## X to 4616, X being the number of days in which the event is going to take place. E. g. DETI #BRNO## 2. The price for the received SMS is CZK 2 without VAT.
Subsidised mobile phones offered by Paegas:
Price when purchased with activation (without VAT)
| Siemens A36 | 1,00 | |
| Siemens C35i | 499,00 | WAP |
| Alcatel OT 302 | 1,00 | WAP |
| Ericsson T20e | 999,00 | WAP |
| Siemens M35i | 1 999,00 | WAP |
| Sony CMD-J5 | 1 999,00 | WAP |
| Samsung SGH - N100 | 1 999,00 | WAP |
| Nokia 3310 | 2 499,00 | |
| Alcatel OT 501 | 2 999,00 | WAP |
| Siemens S35i | 3 999,00 | WAP |
| Nokia 3330 | 3 999,00 | WAP |
| Nokia 6210 | 5 999,00 | WAP |
| Motorola Timeport 260 | 6 999,00 | WAP |
| Sony CMD-Z5 | 9 999,00 | WAP |
Unsubsidised mobile phones offered by Paegas:
Price when purchased with activation (without VAT)
| Alcatel OT 701 | 5 999,00 | WAP |
| Nokia 8210 | 9 999,00 | |
| Nokia 9210 + digital camera | 29 999,00 | WAP * |
| Siemens SL45 | 15 999,00 | WAP |
| Nokia 8850 | 15 999,00 |
Offer of prepaid sets:
Prices of Twist sets in CZK (incl. VAT)
| Alcatel OTClub db | 3 499,00 | |
| Motorola T2288R | 3 499,00 | WAP |
| Siemens A36 | 3 499,00 | |
| Ericsson A2628s | 3 999,00 | WAP * |
| Alcatel OT302 | 3 999,00 | WAP |
| Siemens C35i | 4 999,00 | WAP |
| Siemens M35i | 5 999,00 | WAP |
| Ericsson T20e | 5 999,00 | WAP |
| Sony CMD-J5 | 6 499,00 | WAP |
| Nokia 3310 | 7 499,00 | |
| Alcatel OT501 | 7 999,00 | WAP |
| Panasonic GD93 | 7 999,00 | WAP |
| Nokia 3330 | 8 999,00 | WAP |
The joint-stock company RadioMobil is the operator of a GSM 900/1800 MHz network called Paegas. Since 1996, when RadioMobil entered the Czech market and brought in competition, it obtained more than two million customers. RadioMobil sells prepaid services under the brand Paegas Twist, which is the most successful prepaid service in the Czech market, providing its users with a whole range of services such as data and fax connection, GSM Banking based on the SIM Toolkit standard, Paegas Assistant services, access to WAP services and furthermore it offers a free e-mail ClickBox Easy. Paegas Click is another brand of RadioMobil, focused on customers with Internet or WAP access. At www.click.cz they can easily configure services as well as for instance use a comprehensive e-mail box based on the unified messaging technology.
RadioMobil belongs to the Deutsche Telekom Group - one of the worldâ??s biggest telecommunication operators. Through its subsidiary company T-Mobil (Deutsche Telekomâ??s mobile operator) it owns 87.3% in the CMobil consortium. Other shareholders of CMobil are: STET Mobile Holdings N.V. (12%) and PVT a.s. (0.7%). The international CMobil consortium now owns 60.8% of RadioMobil whose second biggest shareholder is the company ÄŚeské radiokomunikace.
Today, the Paegas GSM network covers over 99% of the Czech population and 99.8% of first class roads. Only during the year 2000 the number of transmitters increased by 750 and thus reached 2500 by the end of the year. Last year, investments only in the network exceeded nine billion crowns. RadioMobil customers may use their mobile phones in networks of 212 operators from 91 countries of the whole world (129 various locations altogether). At the end of June 2001, more than 2,243,140 customers were using Paegas services.
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