T-Mobile Czech Republic, a.s. is a Czech wireless network operator, owned by the German telecommunications provider

Deutsche Telekom Deutsche Telekom AG (, ; often just Telekom, DTAG or DT; stylised as ·T·) is a partially state-owned German telecommunications company headquartered in Bonn and the largest telecommunications provider in Europe by revenue. It was formed in 199 ...

. T-Mobile is the largest

mobile phone A mobile phone or cell phone is a portable telephone that allows users to make and receive calls over a radio frequency link while moving within a designated telephone service area, unlike fixed-location phones ( landline phones). This rad ...

network operator in the

Czech Republic The Czech Republic, also known as Czechia, and historically known as Bohemia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the south ...

. As of 31 December 2014, six million customers were using T-Mobile services.

History

T-Mobile has been operating in the Czech market since 1996 as RadioMobil (joint venture of Ceske Radiokomunikace and

) providing network named Paegas. T-Mobile Czech Republic a.s. operates a public mobile communications network on the

GSM The Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) is a family of standards to describe the protocols for second-generation (2G) digital cellular networks, as used by mobile devices such as mobile phones and Mobile broadband modem, mobile broadba ...

UMTS The Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) is a 3G mobile cellular system for networks based on the GSM standard. UMTS uses Wideband Code Division Multiple Access, wideband code-division multiple access (W-CDMA) radio access technolog ...

and LTE standard. On 19 October 2005, T-Mobile was the first operator in the Czech Republic to launch this third-generation technology. In 2011 O2 Czech Republic and T-Mobile Czech Republic signed an agreement on sharing their 2G, 3G and LTE networks.

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* Deutsche Telekom Mobile phone companies of the Czech Republic Telecommunications companies established in 1996 1996 establishments in the Czech Republic {{Wireless-stub