Novelties for March: Zero Activation Fee

  • Zero activation fee if the client does not want a subsidised mobile phone
  • Paegas Hit and Paegas Víkend allow obtaining interesting prices of standard Paegas tariffs
  • Paegas Partner offers up to four SIM cards within a single tariff program
  • At the end of February, the number of RadioMobil customers exceeded two million
A marked price reduction is being brought by the new program called Paegas Hit. Its users save 20% of the price of regular calls in the Czech telecommunication networks every month. Another novelty - Paegas Víkend - offers weekend calls within the GSM Paegas network for the price of 1 KÄŤ per minute. Every customer who has a contract for an indefinite period and whose contract is just terminating can activate the Paegas Hit program. A new customer can activate the service with any of the tariff programs without having to pay an activation fee, if he/she does not take advantage of the offer of subsidised telephones for a special price (starting at one crown). Along with the activation of the Paegas Hit advantage the client will either extend the existing contract for two more years, or conclude a new contract with RadioMobil for two years. Practically the same conditions apply in the case of the Paegas Víkend program, with the exception that the contract length is one year only. If the customer does not take advantage of the Paegas Hit offer, he/she can always activate the Nonstop service that will reduce the prices of all regular calls by 20 per cent.

Zero Activation Fee
From the beginning of March, there is a zero activation fee for regular Paegas tariff programs if the customer does not take advantage of the opportunity to buy a subsidised mobile phone for a special price for new customers (for prices starting at 1 KÄŤ). The activation fee at the amount of 3675 KÄŤ (incl. VAT) is thus paid only in the case that the customer decides to purchase a subsidised mobile phone. The fee that was formerly paid when changing over from prepaid Paegas Twist services to standard tariff programs was cancelled in the past.

Up to Four SIM Cards within a Single Tariff
Every owner of a regular Paegas tariff program can receive up to four SIM cards with separate telephone numbers. From now, also the owners of the Paegas 20 tariff can receive a second SIM card for free - thanks to the Paegas Partner III offer. The owners of the Paegas 60 tariff can obtain two cards and the users of the highest tariff programs (Paegas 120 and 300) can obtain even three SIM cards for free. The customer pays a single bill for the services but all SIM cards are listed separately.

A Week of Free Paegas Info Services to Celebrate Two Million
During less than five years of its existence, RadioMobil has gained 2,000,000 customers. As a way of saying thanks RadioMobil decided to offer all of its clients the opportunity to use the Paegas Info services free of charge for a whole week. This opportunity starts on Monday, 5 March and is valid until midnight on Sunday, 11 March 2001. During this period, the users pay only for the SMS message sent to order the information and do not pay any fee for the information received within the Paegas Info service. If they order information via the Click website, they will save on sending an ordering text message.

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 worlds biggest telecommunication operators. Through its subsidiary company T-Mobil (Deutsche Telekoms mobile operator) it owns 87.3 % in the consortium CMobil. Other shareholders of CMobil are: STET Mobile Holdings N.V. (12 %) and PVT a.s. (0.7 %). The international consortium CMobil is, together with Ceské radiokomunikace, a shareholder of RadioMobil. In 2001 CMobil is going to enforce an option that will increase its stake in RadioMobil from the existing 49 % to 60.8 %.
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 202 operators from 89 countries of the whole world (123 various locations altogether). By the end of February 2001, more than 2,000,000 customers were using Paegas services.

 
About the Company

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.

T-Mobile Czech Republic places emphasis on taking a responsible approach to the environment and society. It adheres to fair business practices, helps beneficial applications and services to see the light of day, supports non-profit organizations, small businesses and individuals, and lends a helping hand whenever crisis situations arise. The company’s employees serve as volunteers in many places across the entire Czech Republic.

More information about the company is available at www.t-mobile.cz, www.t-press.cz (the portal for journalists) and www.t-mobile.cz/pomahame (information on the company’s CSR activities).

Contact details of the press unit: press@t-press.cz.