RadioMobil Again Awarded for GSM Banking

• Global Mobile Commerce Forum Award for GSM Banking
• Almost 200 thousand clients are using GSM Banking
• Customers of six banks can manage their accounts via Paegas mobile phones

RadioMobil has been awarded the first prize of the Global Mobile Commerce Forum in the Banking and Financial Services category. The award of the international association of mobile business companies whose aim is to promote the development of mobile commerce around the world was given to the Paegas GSM Banking service. About 70 products of international companies were nominated for the GMCF contest and it was Paegas GSM Banking that best fulfilled the criteria for the most innovative service that offers real benefit for the customers in banking, share trading, insurance or other financial services.

The GMCF Award is already the second international prize awarded to this service: It won recognition for the first time in 1999 when RadioMobil, also thanks to GSM banking, received the GSM Association award for the Best Technological Innovation. Moreover, GSM Banking became the Product of the Year 1998 in its category in the Czech Republic.

â?žRadioMobil was the first operator to introduce to the market a banking card allowing its users to manage their bank accounts via Paegas mobile phones,â?ś explains JiĹ?í Hájek, RadioMobil spokesman. â?žNearly 200 thousand clients have grown accustomed to using these services since then. GSM banking is a classic example of modern trends in mobile communication â?" the mobile phone will fulfil a much wider range of functions than just serve as communications means as it used to be originally. It will become more of a terminal in the future that will make our lives easier. RadioMobil once again confirmed its position of an innovator when it offered GSM banking to its customers long before the other operators already three years ago.â?ś

Clients of six banks â?" eBanka, ÄŚSOB, ÄŚSOB â?" IPB commercial network, Poštovní spoĹ?itelna, Union banka and GE Capital â?" can take advantage of GSM Banking services. The customer only needs to visit his or her banking house and have the respective application loaded.

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 206 operators from 89 countries of the whole world (125 various locations altogether). By the end of February 2001, more than 2,000,000 customers were using 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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