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Vodafone Czech Republic a.s. is a Czech telecommunications company, owned by Vodafone Group. It is among the largest Czech companies by revenue. It was established as Český Mobil in 1999, when the government of Miloš Zeman granted it a free license to operate the third mobile GSM network.
The number of main line telephones in use was 3,741,492 in 1998, [4] 3.869 million in 2000, [5] 3.626 million in 2003, [6] 2.888 million in 2006, [7] and 1,294,806 in 2021. [8] The number of mobile cellular phones was 965,476 in 1998, [4] 4.346 million in 2000, [5] 9.708 million in 2003, [6] and 13.075 million in 2007.
Following the break-up of Czechoslovakia in 1993, the successor states, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, continued to share the 42 country code until 28 February 1997, with the Czech Republic then adopting 420 and Slovakia adopting 421.
Vodafone, T-Mobile and O2 offer connection using the LTE, GPRS and EDGE technology. 5G networks are being switched on in some locations (for example in the Prague Metro). [11] On 31 March 2021, Vodafone switched off their 3G (UMTS) network. [12] T-Mobile is planning to switch their 3G network off at the end of November 2021. [13]
In December 2016, the Czech Office for the Protection of Competition fined O2 Czech Republic and Vodafone 99 million CZK for anti-competitive agreements. [ 9 ] In July 2019, EU antitrust regulators accused mobile operators Czech Republic and T-Mobile CZ of violating EU antitrust rules through a network sharing agreement.
One Hungary (formerly Vodafone Hungary until 1 January 2025) is a Hungarian telecommunications service provider. It started operations in 1999 as a mobile network operator after securing the third GSM 900/1800 MHz licence of the country and it was the first provider operating in the DCS-1800 band in Hungary.
The company in its present form resulted from Vodafone's takeover of the German engineering group Mannesmann GmbH in 2000. On 8 December 1989, the West German Federal Ministry for Posts and Telecommunications (de; one of several predecessors of the present-day Bundesnetzagentur) awarded the second digital GSM-900 (also known as D-Netz (de; D-Network in Germany) network in Germany to Mannesmann ...
Vodafone agreed to buy 50% of the frequencies that Plus used to operate, alongside Telekom Albania (now One Albania). On February 12, 2019, Albania’s telecoms watchdog, Electronic and Postal Communications Authority (AKEP) announced the conclusion of the first round of its 800 MHz auction, confirming that Vodafone Albania was the only ...