Dear customers, On this page, we would like to introduce you to the TIP network. (THE NEW BUSINESS NAME of the EuroTel Classic network which you have had available to use since 1991). The new name brings with itself completely new service programs--TIP60 and TIP TOP--and two new telephones--NOKIA 540 and NOKIA 550. Read about the details on page 8 and 9. History... There was a time when having a telephone at home was far from the standard. Demand exceeded the existing, considerably limited telephone network capacity by several times. Many of us surely remember the waiting lists on the “end“ of which waited the hoped-for telephone--the ability of communicating with the world, which was, is, and will be a dream and today is even a necessity for each of us. As business and the associated need to utilize telephones lines, computers, fax and data transmissions developed, demand continued to increase. The first pagers (radio paging pocket receivers) hit the market, making it possible to receive text and numerical messages completely reliably and relatively inexpensively. The cost of the pagers was, however, relatively high in addition to the fact that demand often outweighed the existing capacity of the networks. Due to the ban of public use, the development of radio telephones was slow here, but the Czech mobile phone still emerged. It was called the AMR (automatic city radio telephone) and was developed by Tesla Pardubice. It presented many disadvantages, but still satisfied the many waiting applicants and is operated even today by SPT Telecom. The main problem, which was the insufficiency of open frequencies, was first resolved in conjunction with the use of a network whose development in the form of the system bearing the name of NMT we associate with the year 1991. After this year, mobile communication underwent massive development which with time is becoming more accessible for a larger and larger portion of our population. Today, the NMT 450 MHz system covers most of the territory in a number of countries thanks to which it is continuously used by a great number of customers. The TIP network is definitely not an “old lady“ who is out of touch as many may think. But it’s not a completely analogue network either which would make many people reject and categorize (of course, only to their own disservice) it among the pioneers of mobile telephones. Unfortunately, even today many people, envision under the term “TIP network mobile phone“ an enormous box which is almost unbearable to carry. At the same time, if you pick up a mobile phone designed for the TIPO or GSM Global networks, we dare say that you’ll be hard up to distinguish them from one another. Differences, which are clear only to the eye of an expert, are blurred today by the rapid tempo of development which is continuously moving forward. The TIP network works in the 450 MHz band. Thanks to these low values (compared to the GSM Global network), a better signal propagation is becoming this system’s greatest advantage. Especially in the broken terrain of our republic, the signal is capable of overcoming terrain changes without completely interrupting the connection. For the most part, it is only weakened. Conversely, the GSM Global network signal propagates only in straight lines. This means that changes in terrain cause frequent connection interruptions. That clearly speaks on behalf of the TIP network which provides its users with the best and more homogeneous signal coverage. Presently, when the TIP network is essentially established (establishment began in early 1990), its signal covers 96% of the inhabited territory of our republic. You can forget about news saying that it is a purely analogue network. The only thing analogue about the TIP network is the voice transmission itself. Everything else, including the exchange, is digital. This combination guarantees the next plus of the TIP network--a smaller susceptibility to breakdown. The services provided by this network and which can be provided only be a digital exchange prove that it is truly a network which is not merely analogue! These are the services: conference call, call waiting, call forwarding to a fixed line or mobile telephone number or voice mail (the voice mail itself is only a digital exchange service), fax and data service.... All connections made in the TIP network are carefully “controlled and safeguarded“ by the management control center in Prague on Olšanská street. EuroTel Prague has recently taken a number of steps and invested much money into protecting the TIP network against its potential misuse. Slowly but surely it is thus breaking down its customers´ unconscious confidence barriers toward the TIP network--the impression that the mobile network is easy to abuse. Few radios which can tune into 450 MHz have reception in this wave length. Thanks to the fact that each call is transmitted by two channels (you speak through one and listen through the other), this type of mobile phone can be considered as two radio stations. Just like one radio cannot listen to two radio stations at once, it is not a easy as some people assume to listen to a conversation held over a mobile phone. Each radio transmits on the same frequency. The mobile phone, however, moves, and the receiving and transmitting channels are continuously changing when the phone is “shifted from one cell to another,“ from one base station to another. That’s why technically eavesdropping is not simple. A person trying to eavesdrop on your calls would have to be “in your reach“ at all times while you’re making the call which interests him. The only thing that is technically possible is to program a telephone number into the phone. Thanks to many measures undertaken by EuroTel Praha, anyone capable of this still cannot program other algorithms which protect this specific telephone with this specific number from being abused. That means that connection cannot be made sending or receiving a call. As is obvious, the routine ability to eavesdrop on calls in the TIP network is wrongfully attributed to this network. It is highly probably that people unconsciously mistake this network with the Automatic City Radio Telephone (AMR) which is still operated by SPT Telecom. Thanks to 160 MHz radio waves on which it transmits and the high 30W output (pocket TIP network mobile phones have an output of .15W-1.5W), the AMR is more simply intercepted. The fact remains that whoever has the money, and has a lot of it (these are astronomical costs), can use them for his own benefit and overhear calls. However, no telephone network is safe from these kind of “pirates.“ Whether it’s a telephone that we almost all have at home today or a digital or analogue network telephone. That’s why one should never pass on important information (e.g. PIN) or to take care of essential and strictly private matters over the telephone. Compared to the past, the purchasing costs of TIP network telephones are comparable to the costs of GSM Global network telephones. In addition, thanks to favorably low tariffs and less expensive service program rates offered by this network, you can make back your purchase costs many fold within a short period. If you plan to call a lot (the more you call the cheaper it is for you), you don’t need some of the special services which are currently offered by the GSM Global network alone (e.g. receipt and transmission of SMS messages) and you won’t lack the ability to roam (you can use telephones for international calls only in the Czech and Slovak Republics), then one of the newest TIP network telephones--e.g. Nokia 540 or Nokia 550--will become an excellent companion for your family budget. For companies equipped until now with GSM Global network telephones, the newly offered telephones with low tariffs may become an alternative solution to the financial budget.