Eurotel

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Eurotel is former name for Slovak (now T-Mobile) and Czech (now O₂) mobile network.

Eurotel was founded in 1990 as a joint venture between SPT Telecom (51%) and the American joint venture Atlantic West (between US WEST International, Inc. and Bell Atlantic International Inc.). On launch it received an exclusive five-year licence to operate a public data network, and a 20-year licence for the 450 MHz band to operate an analogue NMT mobile phone network, and automatically also a right to buy a licence to the future GSM network.

Name Eurotel was use for Czechoslovak network, after dissolution of the country, the company was also dissoluted for Slovak Eurotel Bratislava and Czech Eurotel Praha. The Slovak part was rebranded in 2005 to T-Mobile, the Czech part in 2006 to O₂.

Note that O₂ also operates in Slovakia and T-Mobile in the Czech republic but they are unrelated to either Eurotel Bratislava or Eurotel Praha, respectively. Telefónica O2 Slovakia is a brand new network and T-Mobile Czech Republic evolved from Paegas network.