EUROTEL: SERVICES FOR OVER ONE MILLION CUSTOMERS


EuroTel Praha foresees further, very marked growth in demand and in the number of its customers in 1998. "We expect to provide services for more than 1,000,000 customers from around the world this year," says Jamie Macdonald, acting Managing Director of EuroTel Praha Ltd.

Services of EuroTel´s GSM Global network are used by customers in the Czech Republic as well as hundreds of thousands of visitors from abroad as a result of the roaming agreements EuroTel has in place with other networks. These so called roaming agreements are fully reciprocal meaning that EuroTel customers can also simply take their GSM phone with them when they travel and use it in any one of 79 GSM networks spanning all four continents.

"The users of our services include not only citizens of the Czech Republic, but also citizens coming to the Czech Republic from other countries (including, for example, Australia or Taiwan), who use the EuroTel GSM Global network during working or tourism visits to Bohemia and Moravia," Mr. Macdonald adds.

As of 31 March 1998, EuroTel Praha, the largest operator of mobile telephones in the Czech Republic, had sold services to a total of some 482,000 Czech based customers who have activated mobile phones in the EuroTel Classic or the EuroTel GSM Global networks, since the launch of operations in 1991. During the first quarter of this year alone, EuroTel acquired over 53,000 new clients on it´s networks.

"Obviously some of our customers temporarily suspend their service with EuroTel for seasonal or vacation based reasons and we also actively disconnect those who are very late with their payment,” emphasizes Jamie Macdonald. “It is therefore very natural for some of the services sold to customers to be discontinued, especially over a period of several years.”

According to Jamie Macdonald, EuroTel Praha will continue to lead the Czech Market this year in the competitive environment primarily through its high quality of services, the extent of its coverage, and the high level of its customer care. "At the present time, we have well over 400,000 active customer - not counting temporarily blocked accounts, International roamers or clients who have cancelled their contracts," Jamie Macdonald stated.

EuroTel Praha Ltd is a joint venture of SPT TELECOM Inc. (51%) and Atlantic West B.V. (49%). Atlantic West B.V. is equally owned by Bell Atlantic (NYSE:BELL) and MediaOne International, which is also known as US WEST International, a part of the MediaOne Group (NYSE:UMG).



Prague, May 22, 1998

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For further information, please contact:
EuroTel Praha,Ltd.
Iva Taťounová
Tel.: 02/6701 1193, Fax: 02/6701 1195