Paegas Donates Almost 2000 Computers with Microsoft Software to Schools and Childcare Institutions

• Children at schools are already using first computers from the RadioMobil Company
• The project â?śWe Support Your Futureâ?ť has a nation-wide significance
• Computers will be equipped with Microsoft software

The RadioMobil Company, the Paegas GSM mobile phone network operator, decided to respond to the shortage of computer equipment in schools and childcare institutions. Within three years it will donate more than 2000 personal computers and notebooks equipped with Microsoft software into this area, and children can start working on the first 130 computers already at the beginning of April. "Roughly three quarters of elementary schools and more than a half of secondary schools lack satisfactory computer equipment," the gazetteer of the RadioMobil Company Tereza Kakosová said. "We are aware that we cannot help everyone, but at least somewhere we can significantly decrease the current average number of sixty pupils to one computer." The whole project called "We Support Your Future" will have a nation-wide impact and computers from the RadioMobil Company will appear especially in institutions outside of Prague, where the situation concerning this kind of equipment is the most critical.

"Computers and internet access play an increasingly bigger and more important part in education," the Minister of Education Eduard Zeman says. "Like the countries of the European Union, the Czech Republic is presently trying to ensure internet connection for schools of all levels until 2001. That is why we are thankful to all companies, which are willing to help in this area effectively."

The project "We Support Your Future" did not come into existence by coincidence. "People got used to perceiving RadioMobil as an innovator and pioneer of future technologies," Tereza Kakosová said. "However, this role is also obliging in all aspects, and so we are very pleased to be able to contribute to extending the most modern technologies into education. For computers and their connection to the internet can play even a bigger part in the future than until now, and if young people want to be successful, they have to have access to them since their very young age."

"The fact that the Microsoft company is a partner of the project "We Support Your Future" is not surprising," the managing director of the Microsoft company in CR Jan MĂĽhlfeit says, "the general public knows us not only as a producer of the most modern technologies, but also as a many years supporter of the Czech education. All schools that want to prepare their students/pupils for a life in a modern, information society, have taken advantage of the opportunity to buy our products with huge reductions."

The commitment of the Microsoft company in CR
The mission of Microsoft in CR is to bring positive changes into everyday life of our people. Anywhere people work, learn or play, we strive to make their life easier using information technologies of the highest world standard that are localised or adopted to our market. Microsoft is ready to contribute to increasing the quality of education, raising our firms ability to compete and allowing our state to enter NATO and EU by supporting skills development in the area of information technologies and PC literacy in our country.

 

RadioMobil Incorporated is the operator of the most dynamically growing GSM network in CR. During 1999 over 500 thousand new customers decided for its services, which is the highest number in the history of mobile communications in CR. The Paegas GSM network that RadioMobil operates belongs to the most technologically developed networks in the world and has no competitor in a whole range of services on the Czech market.

Only in the Paegas network really all customers, not excluding prepaid Paegas Twist card owners, can use the most modern services: free data and fax connection, GSM Banking, WAP based services, Paegas Asistent and others. So far only RadioMobil offers the possibility of ordering services via the internet or view the bill thanks to the Paegas Info Profil service. They can always be sure they chose the most effective operator on the Czech market.

The RadioMobil Company can fully rely on its shareholders: ÄŚeské radiokomunikace 51 % (after enforcing the option its share will decrease to 39.2 % during 2001) and the consortium CMobil - 49 % (60.8 % respectively). The consortium CMobil is: T-Mobil - a 100 % subsidiary company of Deutsche Telekom (84.55 %), TIM - Telecom Italia Mobile (12 %); other shareholders are SKS - SpoĹ?itelní kapitálová spoleÄŤnost a.s., TMP - TelekomunikaÄŤní montáže Praha a.s., PVT a.s.

The Paegas GSM network today covers over 99 % of the Czech population and 99.8 % of first-class roads. Customers can use a Paegas GSM mobile phone in networks of 171 operators from almost 80 countries of the whole world. In 1999 RadioMobil invested more than 5.5 billion crowns in its network, and for 2000 it plans investments exceeding 10 billion. At the end of March 2000 over 1 050 000 customers were using the Paegas services.

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).

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