T-Mobile

T-Mobile is a multinational mobile phone operator. It is a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom and belongs to the FreeMove alliance. more...

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T-Mobile is a group of mobile phone corporate subsidiaries (all under the ownership of Deutsche Telekom) that operate GSM networks in Europe and the United States. The "T" stands for "Telekom." Most subsidiaries of Deutsche Telekom have names beginning with "T-". T-Mobile also has financial stakes in mobile operators in Eastern Europe. Globally, T-Mobile has 109 million subscribers, making it the world's 3rd largest mobile phone service provider.

Deutsche Telekom were recently pipped at the post in acquiring O2 -- thanks to a successful bid from Spain's Telefonica.

T-Mobile is also a sponsor of several sport events in which some carry the company name. For example its own cycling team, the T-Mobile Team, or the Austrian soccer Bundesliga.

Germany

In Germany, its home market, T-Mobile is the largest mobile phone operator with 28.7 million subscribers (as of September 2005), closely followed by its primary rival Vodafone. The highly profitable GSM network in Germany is scheduled to be supplemented and ultimately replaced by UMTS, for which T-Mobile spent €8.2 billion in August 2000 to acquire one of the six licenses for Germany.

Czech Republic

T-Mobile entered Czech market in 2001 when it acquired Czech's second largest cell phone service provider Paegas. Paegas was founded in 1996 by Ceske radiokomunikace, and until 2005 it had always been Nr. 2 cell wireless provider. Its biggest competitor has always been Eurotel, on the other side Oskar, the youngest of all three providers, has never become any significat player in T-Mobile's fields of business.

Czech T-Mobile recently became Nr. 1 cell phone service provider in the Czech Republic. One of the reasons for that was the former Nr. 1 Eurotel change its formulas for compounding the number of customers - it used to count all sim cards that made a phone call in last 18 months as active, now the range of being not active has shrunk to 13 months.

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