RadioMobil Obtained Licence for Provision of Telephone Services via Fixed Telecommunication Network

• Especially corporate clients will appreciate the new possibilities
• There is a growing interest in Paegas services on the part of large companies

On 11 April RadioMobil obtained a licence from the Czech Telecommunications Office authorising the company to provide public telephone services via a fixed telecommunication network. Especially companies using the Paegas Virtual Private Network will appreciate this service. RadioMobil will be now able to offer its customers a comprehensive service package that will encompass all advantages of fixed and mobile telecommunication lines.

RadioMobil is the first mobile operator in the Czech Republic to offer its customers, on the basis of a licence, the opportunity to take advantage of fixed telecommunication lines. â?śWe want to meet our customersâ?? wishes and offer them a complete portfolio of services,â?ť explains Martin Klocperk, Radiomobilâ??s Telecom Relations and Strategy Director. â?śThe liberalisation of the Czech telecommunications market has enabled us to offer additional telephone services via fixed lines. An example are calls between P.B.X.â??s, calls to other operatorsâ?? fixed networks and of course calls to foreign countries. It is another step towards an even greater flexibility and convenience of Paegas services.â?ť

There is a growing interest in RadioMobil services on the part of corporate clients. In the last year alone the number of Paegas Virtual Private Network users increased by almost 700%.

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 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 203 operators from 89 countries of the whole world (124 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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