CETIN a.s., (also known as Česká telekomunikační infrastruktura, its former name) is a
Czech telecommunications company that is part of
PPF Group, an international investment group formerly majority-owned by Czech billionaire
Petr Kellner
Petr Kellner (20 May 1964 – 27 March 2021) was a Czech billionaire entrepreneur, the founder and majority shareholder (98.93%) of the PPF Group. At the time of his death, he had an estimated net worth of $17.5 billion, making him the wealth ...
. The company was created as a result of the separation of
O2 Czech Republic a.s. into two companies, following a decision taken at O2 Czech Republic’s general meeting on 28 April 2015. The actual separation took place on 1 June 2015. CETIN, the new company created alongside O2, now runs the fixed-line access network, the mobile access network and international telecommunication services that were previously run by the combined O2 Czech Republic.
The CETIN network takes in 38,000 km of optical cables and 20,000,000 km of metallic cable pairs throughout the Czech Republic. It covers 99.6% of the population with a mixture of
GSM,
UMTS
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,
LTE
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Science and technology
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** LTE Advanced, an enhancement
*** LTE Advanced Pro
* Compaq LTE, a line of laptop computers produced by Compaq
* ...
and
CDMA
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mobile technology, transmitted by 6,000
base stations, and
SDH,
WDM, Ethernet and IP technology at fixed locations. On an international level, CETIN owns
PoP
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* Pop music, a musical genre Artists
* POP, a Japanese idol group now known as Gang Parade
* Pop!, a UK pop group
* Pop! featuring Angie Hart, an Australian band
Albums
* ''Pop'' (G ...
(Points of Presence) in
London
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,
Vienna
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,
Bratislava
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and
Frankfurt
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.
PPF Group decided to squeeze out CETIN’s remaining minority shareholders at CETIN’s general meeting on 3 December 2015. The shares owned by these minority shareholders therefore passed to the majority shareholder. As a result, in January 2016, PPF Group completed the acquisition of 100% of the share capital of CETIN.
CETIN became the general partner of the
Prague Spring (Pražské jaro) music festival in 2016. The company introduced a new feature to the 71st year of the festival in cooperation with Prague Spring – streaming the opening concert online to locations at Kampa Park in
Prague
Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...
and also to eight cinemas in the Czech Republic and
Slovakia
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.
In November 2020, CETIN signed a contract with the Swedish company
Ericsson
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to build the next generation
5G network.
References
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External links
CETIN websitePPF website
Telecommunications companies of the Czech Republic
Companies based in Prague
Czech brands
PPF Group