RadioMobil Donated CZK 1.5m to Childrenâ??s Hospital in Brno Bohunice

• Paegas contributes to the reconstruction of childrenâ??s hospitals in the Czech Republic
• Last year RadioMobil donated nearly three million crowns to Czech hospitals

On 23 May a gala opening of a childrens psychiatry ward took place in Brno Bohunice. RadioMobil contributed CZK 1,500,000 to its reconstruction through the Archa Chantal Foundation. Thanks to the project called "Full Steam Ahead" the unfriendly hospital environment turned into a Mississippi steamboat.

"The improvement of this hospitals environment is double as important because mentally ill children are treated here," explains Miloslava VepĹ?eková, director of the Brno branch of Archa Chantal Foundation. "The premises which had been grey, depressing and which could hardly invoke a pleasant atmosphere needed for the recovery of mentally ill children, will thanks to RadioMobil now change into an environment that will appeal to children of all age groups. The interior as well as exterior will look like a ship deck and the doctors, nurses and little patients will be part of the crew - the whole atmosphere should thus become a part of the treatment process."

The Bohunice hospital is the only psychiatric hospital in South Moravia which has an inpatient ward. Not only children with real mental disorders such as schizophrenia or depression are hospitalized here, but also children with neurotic disorders related to family problems, inadequate pressure at school or drugs.

"We are aware that there is a lack of money in the health-care system and therefore it is preferentially used for purchasing new equipment," says JiĹ?í Hájek, RadioMobils press spokesman. "We have decided to choose also another way and, in addition to financial assistance with the purchase of new equipment, we want to help reduce the stress from unknown environment and separation which children experience in hospitals. We have been co-operating with the Archa Chantal Foundation for several years and our company has contributed to a radical change in the appearance of a number of childrens health-care institutions."

Peagas generally invests large means in health-care institutions - in 2000 alone it was nearly CZK 3 million. In the long term, Paegas co-operates with the Fourth Internal Clinic of the First Medical Faculty at Pragues Karlovo námÄ?stí, the Švejcar Foundation, JedliÄŤka Institution, Childrens Oncology Endowment Fund of the Federation of Parents and Friends of the Deaf and the KĹ?ižovatka foundation. Through the Archa Chantal Foundation, RadioMobil contributed to the reconstruction of the whole childrens reception area and dialysis unit at the Motol hospital.

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 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. Pra

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.

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