Everything about Telef Nica O2 Czech Republic totally explained
Telefónica O2 Czech Republic is the largest telecommunications company in the
Czech Republic. It operates the Czech fixed-line network, the only Czech
CDMA network, one of the three Czech
GSM networks and one of the three Czech
UMTS networks. Previously two companies, fixed-line operator
Český Telecom and mobile operator
Eurotel, it was acquired by the
Spanish company
Telefónica in 2005 and merged into a single legal entity and given its present name on
1 July 2006. The company is run by Telefónica's European mobile business
Telefónica O2 Europe plc. and the CEO of the Czech unit is Salvador Anglada Gonzalez.
History
The company was initially known as
SPT Telecom (Státní telekomunikační podnik, state-owned telecommunications company), and used to have a monopoly for providing fixed-line services. It was reorganized and renamed
Český Telecom (Czech Telecom), after the
Velvet Divorce saw
Czechoslovakia separate into the Czech Republic and
Slovakia in 1993.
Its mobile subsidiary, Eurotel, was founded in 1990 as a joint venture between SPT (51%) and the American joint venture Atlantic West (between
US WEST International, Inc. and
Bell Atlantic International Inc.). On launch it received an exclusive five-year licence to operate a public data network, and a 20-year licence for the 450 MHz band to operate an analogue NMT mobile phone network, and automatically also a right to buy a licence to the future GSM network.
In 2001 it won a license to the third-generation UTMS network. It paid 1 billion
korunas immediately, and promised to pay an additional 2.5 billion korunas annually. It also agreed to lauch the service commercially, at least in
Prague, by
1 January 2005. In 2003, it received a one-year extension in exchange for faster payments. In 2005 it was granted another year-long extension due to the granting of a third licence to
Vodafone. In the event, UMTS services launched on
1 November 2005. On
1 May 2006 the company launched HSDPA services on top of UMTS services.
In
2004 it launched
CDMA/1xEV-DO broadband wireless service (data-only) at 450 MHz, leveraging its legacy NMT network.
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