O2 Czech Republic
O2 Slovakia; Telefónica Business Solutions; Czech Telecom Austria GmbH; Czech Telecom Germany GmbH | |
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O2 Czech Republic (operating under the
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.
In 2013 it was announced that Telefónica would sell its stake in the company to PPF and the company would continue to use the O2 brand for a maximum of four years.[2] In August 2017 the brand license agreement was extended to 2022, with a 5 year extension to 2027 available.[3]
History
The company was initially known as SPT Telecom (Správa pošt a telekomunikací, 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
Its mobile subsidiary, Eurotel, was founded in 1990 as a joint venture between SPT (51%) and the American joint-venture Atlantic West (between
In 2001, it won a license to the third-generation
In 2004 it launched CDMA/1xEV-DO broadband wireless service (data-only) at 450 MHz, leveraging its legacy NMT network.
In 2012, O2 Czech Republic opened its network to virtual operators.[citation needed]
On 1 June 2015, O2 Czech Republic has been separated into two mutually independent companies. O2 is the retail operator with the infrastructure provided by
Type of service | Number of customers (in thousands) at the end of the year | |||
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2018 [5] | 2017 [5] | 2010 | 2009 | |
Fixed lines | 554 | 654 | 1,669 | 1,771 |
ADSL | 708 | 752 | 806 | 725 |
Pay TV – O2 TV | 287 | 259 | 129 | 138 |
Active mobile users in the Czech Republic | 4,992 | 4,903 | 4,839 | 4,945 |
– postpaid | 3,504 | 3,366 | 2,864 | 2,814 |
– prepaid | 1,488 | 1,537 | 1,975 | 2,130 |
Active mobile users in Slovakia | 2,000 [6] | 1,903 | 880 | 553 |
References
- ^ a b c "Annual Report 2018" (PDF).
- ^ Telefónica Agrees the Sale of Telefónica Czech Republic to PPF for 2,467 mln euros Archived 2014-02-20 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "O2 Czech Republic, a. s. - General Presentation" (PDF). O2. August 2017.
- ^ "O2 Czech Republic separates into O2 and CETIN - ICT market in CEE & CIS - PMR". www.ceeitandtelecom.com. Retrieved 20 December 2018.
- ^ a b 2018 Semi-annual Report, O2, version from Feb 13, 2019
- ^ O2 je už 2-miliónový operátor Archived 2018-10-25 at the Wayback Machine