(CIA, Jan 4) MMS registered the highest increases in mobile networks on New Year's Eve, similarly to Christmas. The number of sent SMS messages increased as well, while voice traffic remained virtually unchanged in the y/y comparison. MMS traffic in the Vodafone network on New Year's Eve increased six times to over 265,000 messages. The traffic in Telefonica network grew by 50% to 135,000 messages, while T-Mobile saw the number of messages increased by 1.4% to 162,000.

The number of SMS messages in O2 network gained 7% y/y to 15.5 million. T-Mobile's SMS centre handled almost 15.9 million messages. Customers sent over 12.8 million New Year wishes from their phones, up 1.7%. Vodafone saw the number of sent messages drop by 1% y/y to 8.5 million.

(CIA, Jan 4) Telefonica O2 registered almost 19 million calls on New Year's Eve and in the first hours of the New Year. According to T-Mobile, the total number of incoming and outgoing calls grew by 4:3% to 24.29 million. T-Mobile's customers accounted for totally 13.6 million calls (up 5.4%). Vodafone saw the total voice traffic drop by 7% y/y to 11 million calls.

(CIA, Jan 4) Germans were the most active foreigners in Czech mobile networks on New Year's Eve. They accounted for 35.1% of all foreigners in Vodafone network and 31% in T-Mobile network. The most active visitors in the T-Mobile network beside Germans were from the UK (10%), Poland and Slovakia (8%). Italians (12.1%) were the second most active group in the Vodafone network, followed by Poles (7.2%), Slovaks (6.9%) and Russians (4.7%).
The number of calls from Telefonica O2 CR's fixed network to international networks exceeded two million on New Year's Eve. Austria was the most visited country, followed by Germany, Slovakia, Italy, USA, UK and Hungary.

(CIA, Jan 4) T-Mobile has decided to simplify the offer of Twist tariffs in 2010. In the course of Q1 the operator will complete the transfer of all customers to the new generation of Twist tariffs. Customers will be using the following tariffs: Twist Start, Twist ProSMS and Twist Tyden. Older Twist Standard, Twist SMS and Twist Extra will be terminated.
The new generation should depict various models of mobile service usage better. Users of the terminated tariffs will be transferred to new ones automatically; they may migrate to another tariff for free, if they find it more suitable.

(CIA, Jan 4) This year mobile operators are generally not planning to lay off employees. Only Telefonica O2 has admitted that it will look for more efficiency in this area.
Vodafone's employee base has hovered around 2,000 for some time. The operator expects this situation to remain unchanged. T-Mobile's employee base is to remain stable in 2010.

(CIA, Jan 5) T-Mobile has introduced its first offer of a data and voice service in a single advantageous package. The 2v1 bundle combines the Internet ADSL Standard tariff without a fixed line with selected voice tariffs, incl. Pratele V Siti (Friends in Network) and Rodina (Family), selected minute and enterprise tariffs, Bav se and Bav se with Mych5, including the HIT versions. Customers will receive a single bill.

(CIA, Jan 5) This year mobile operators are planning to invest into network development, primarily into the deployment of 3G networks. Telefonica O2 plans to achieve 60 to 70 percent coverage with next generation mobile networks by 2012. Telefonica also plans other selective investments into growth segments.
T-Mobile plans to invest significantly into network development, primarily into the deployment of a 3G and optical backbone network and the modernisation of its 2G network. Investments are to exceed those of 2009.
Vodafone also plans to focus on the deployment of its 3G network. Within a few months the operator wants to announce significant expansion of commercial operation for customers.

(CIA, Jan 13) The Czech Telecommunications Office has ended the administrative proceeding with telecommunications operators in the matter of the provision of special prices for people with special social requirements for 2008. The authority has reimbursed the firms' losses from state budget resources.
The loss from the provision of special prices was set at CZK 136.2 mln for Telefonica O2, CZK 1.8 mln for Vodafone and CZK 2.9 mln for T-Mobile.

(CIA, Jan 11) According to the server DSL.cz, a y/y comparison of Internet speeds indicates a 100% increase to 17.12Mbit/s in the case of optical connections. The speed of cable Internet increased by 79% to an average 8.86Mbit/s. The average speed of ADSL increased by 4% y/y to 3.66Mbit/s in December.
On the other hand DSL, WiFi, and mobile Internet did not see any major y/y changes. Telefonica's 3G network registered speed increase of 69% and the T-Mobile Internet 4G Basic speed grew by 66%. Vodafone's 3G network was fastest at 1.13Mbit/s.