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Paegas becomes main partner to Mobile of the Year survey
RadioMobil has become the main partner to the Mobile of the Year '98 survey, announced for the second year by the Internet telecommunications news service Mobile Server. While 3,800 respondents took part in last year's survey, a record 17,180 turned out this year, to the surprise of organizers. "It is evidence of the continually greater interest in mobile communications," said Tereza Kakosová, a spokeswoman for the Paegas GSM network. "We were also very pleased to discover that the opinions of those voting matched the business strategies of our company. Before the survey even began, RadioMobil had already gone ahead and included most of the telephones ranked at the top in its offering of specially priced phones, and it spent all of 1998 promoting and boosting them through advertisements," Kakosová added.The results of the survey were announced at a formal banquet, held at Veletržní palác in conjunction with an exhibition by Annie Liebovitz (also in partnership with RadioMobil). Nokia took brand-of-the-year honors by a large margin in all three categories, Low-end, Manager, and Hi-tech. Both Ericsson and Motorola recorded second-place finishes. A jury of experts, consisting of writers for Mobil server and the newcomer Mobility, also awarded a special prize to one additional phone in each category. The winners were the Bosch 608/607 in the Low-end division, the Nokia 6110 in the Manager division, and the Ericsson SH888 in the top division.
Mobile of the Year 1988, places 1-3 in the following categories:
| Low-end | Manager | Hi-tech | Brand of the year |
| 1. Nokia 5110 | 1. Nokia 6110 | 1. Nokia 8810 | 1. Nokia |
| 2. Ericsson GA 628 | 2. Siemens S10/Active | 2. Motorola Star TAC 130 | 2. Ericsson |
| 3. Bosch 607/608 | 3. Ericsson GH 688 | 3. Ericsson SH 888 | 3. Motorola |
The RadioMobil joint-stock company is the operator of the GSM network called Paegas. Its largest shareholders are České radiokomunikace a.s., with 51 percent, and the international consortium CMobil, which holds a 49 percent share. CMobil is made up of the German operator T-Mobil, the Italian operator TIM, PVT, Telekomunikační montáže Praha and Spořitelní kapitálová společnost.
The Paegas GSM network today covers more than 92 percent of the population of the Czech Republic. Customers can now take their Paegas mobile phones to 59 countries around the world and utilize the roaming services of 110 operators. As of the end of November, 1998, more than 350,000 customers were using the services of the Paegas GSM network.
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