GTS Central Europe announces good First Half of 2010 Financial Results
18.8.2010Warsaw, Poland – August 18, 2010 – GTS Central Europe (“GTS”), a leading infrastructure-based telecommunications operator in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), is pleased to announce strong financial results for the first half of 2010. Year-on-year, the first half of 2010, revenue remained stable at €189.8 million, EBITDA grew 7.5% to €44.4 million. The improved EBITDA was a direct result of focused changes in product mix and continued optimisation of our cost structure.
GTS Central Europe data center expansion continues with recent facility opening in Prague
12.8.2010Prague, August 12th 2010 – GTS Central Europe (GTS), a leading
infrastructure-based telecommunications operator in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), recently opened a new data center in Prague, Czech Republic. The opening of the new data center, with total area of 720 square meters (sqm) is a direct response to GTS’s growing customer demand for co-location/housing and hosting services. GTS’s growing data center portfolio throughout the CEE region complements the Company’s extensive regional and metro fibre network, which interconnects all data center locations.
New unique Ethernet offer for CEE from GTS
23.6.2010Warsaw, 23 June, 2010 – GTS Central Europe (GTS), a leading telecommunications operator in the CEE region is enhancing its Ethernet infrastructure. Today, GTS Group has presented details of its new services based on its Ethernet platform, as well as plans for future development in this area. This new strategy uses the new Ethernet platform to give customers
a totally flexible and scalable portfolio of managed Layer 2 services, along with substantially reduced total costs of ownership (TCO). A unique advantage of the GTS Ethernet network is its dense coverage of the whole central Europe region.
GTS Central Europe Acquires Hungarian Data Center Provider, Interware
22.6.2010Budapest, June 15th, 2010 – GTS Central Europe (GTS) today announced that it has agreed to acquire Interware Zrt., a leading provider of data center services in the Hungarian market. The deal is subject to local Competition Office approval and expected to close by the end of the third quarter of 2010. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
GTS Central Europe Expanding Operations with Acquisition of Romanian Telecom Operator, Datek
16.6.2010Bucharest, June 9th 2010 – GTS Central Europe (GTS), a leading telecommunications operator in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), announced the completion of a contract signed in December last year for the acquisition of Datek, an established and significant player in the Romanian telecommunications market. Datek’s strong corporate and carrier data customer base and strong presence in the financial and public sectors are complementary to GTS’s Romanian operations. GTS will add Datek into its existing Romanian operations, creating a combined business with total annual revenues exceeding €25 million. The acquisition will strengthen the GTS footprint not only in Romania, but also in the CEE region.
GTS Central Europe chose Alcatel-Lucent to extend high quality Ethernet services to its customers
17.5.2010Warsaw, May 17, 2010 – GTS Central Europe (GTS CE) has selected Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext: Paris and NYSE: ALU), a leader in fixed, mobile and converged broadband networking, IP technologies, applications and services to help deploy Ethernet services to corporate customers as well as to other international telecom carriers. Alcatel-Lucent’s IP/MPLS and business access solutions, along with professional services, will enable high-speed data connectivity across the entire GTS CE network spanning the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, the Slovak Republic and Romania in central Europe, along with Austria and Germany in the west.
Ian McKenzie appointed Non-Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors at GTS CE
1.4.2010GTS Central Europe, the leading regional provider of integrated telecommunication solutions, is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Ian McKenzie as Non-Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors, a supervisory body of GTS Group.
GTS Central Europe 2009 financial results
4.3.2010March 3rd, 2010 - GTS Central Europe (GTS CE) today announces its results for the full year ending 31 December 2009, reporting the highest EBITDA and cashflow since the Group was founded over 16 years ago. The company continues revenue growth in high margin data and data center products.
GTS Slovakia is the first company in Slovakia to provide services using unbundled local loops.
16.2.2010GTS Slovakia is the first company in Slovakia to provide services using unbundled local loops.
Provision of communication services through the copper wire telephone lines was made possible on the basis of a local loop unbundling contract concluded with Slovak Telecom, a.s.
GTS CE wins ‘Best Central & Eastern European Wholesale Offering’ award
26.11.2009Warsaw, November 24th 2009 – GTS Central Europe, a leading telecommunications operator in the CEE region, has been recognized in the prestigious Wholesale Telecommunications Awards for ‘Best Central & Eastern European Wholesale Offering’. Capacity Magazine’s annual awards were presented on the first evening of Capacity Europe on 23rd of November 2009, attended by more than 400 senior industry executives. The awards, created to recognize the best market players, are based on five criteria: network quality and performance, network reach, speed to market, pricing strategy, and overall investments in the network.
Slovak Telekom and GTS Slovakia signed a Subscriber Line Access Contract
25.3.2009Today Slovak Telekom and GTS Slovakia signed a Subscriber Line Access Contract based on a modified Reference Offer.
GTS Central Europe Announces 2008 Financial Results
3.3.20092008 financial performance represented the best results in the 15 year history of the Group, strengthening its position as the leading alternative telecommunication operator in Central & Eastern Europe.
GTS Nextra with a new name and growing income in 2008
3.2.2009Starting February 2009, GTS Nextra will provide its services under a new name - GTS Slovakia. The change of name is connected neither to an acquisition nor to a change of owner of the GTS Central Europe group which took place in April 2008. The company ceased to use the Nextra brand name as the three-year license to use it has just elapsed. The new name will not impact the continuity and quality of customer service in any way whatsoever.
Organisational changes in the GTS Group
3.11.2008GTS CE continues its strategy of becoming a regional provider for carriers & business customers through increasing the depth and reach of its regional footprint and international sales channels.
Mr. Ignacio Irurita is appointed Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at GTS CE
11.9.2008Prague, September 1, 2008 – Mr. Ignacio Irurita has been appointed Chief Technology Officer for GTS Central European Holding B.V. (GTS CE), a leading Central European telecommunications operator. In his new position, Mr. Ignacio Irurita will be responsible for managing GTS CE´s regional network, unifying domestic networks and creating common operational platform for the subsidiaries of the Group. He will be based in Prague, Czech Republic.
Sales of GTS Nextra almost half a billion Slovak crowns in the first half of the year
7.8.2008Sales of GTS Nextra have reached 463 million Slovak crowns (15.4 mil. EUR) in the first half of 2008 representing the year-on-year growth of 15%. Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) increased in crowns by 30% to 133 million Slovak crowns (4.4 mil. EUR). This value represented 29% of the Company sales in January to June of this year. Capital expenditures (CAPEX) significantly contributed to the growth of the Company and their year-on-year increase was almost 46%.
Stepanka Hanusova is appointed Director of Regional Purchasing at GTS CE
28.7.2008Mrs. Stepanka Hanusova was appointed Director of Regional Purchasing at GTS CE, a leading Central European telecommunications operator. She comes to this position from the Czech telecommunications provider GTS Novera that is a part of the GTS CE group. This new position is a part of the announced strategy to unify the group and its country subsidiaries following its change of ownership.
Private Equity Consortium Acquires GTS Central Europe
6.5.2008Group Menatep Limited (GML) has sold 100 percent of the shares in its subsidiary GTS Central Europe (GTS CE) to a consortium of private equity funds, including Columbia Capital, M/C Venture Partners, Innova Capital, HarbourVest Partners, Oak Investment Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners (the Consortium).
GTS Nextra with growing incomes last year again
7.3.2008GTS Nextra achieved total incomes in 2007 at the level of SKK 850 million. This represents a growth of 11 % in a year-to-year comparison. Profit before taxes, interests, depreciations and amortisation (EBITDA) grew by 39 % to SKK 224 million. The company thus confirmed the growing trend from past years. Investment costs (CAPEX) reached a value of SKK 193 million and were a significant stimulus for further development of the company.
GTS to be acquired by Consortium of private equity funds
27.12.2007GML’s subsidiary, the shareholder of GTS Central Europe ("GTS CE"), has entered into an agreement to sell 100% of the shares in GTS CE to a consortium of private equity funds, led by Columbia Capital, M/C Venture Partners and Innova Capital (the "Consortium"). The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2008.
GTS Nextra Takes To Its Network Most Numbers
4.12.2007Most clients transferring fixed line telephone numbers have opted for the largest alternative operator, GTS Nextra, a.s.
GTS CE again wins Capacity magazine’s 2007 Carrier of the Year award for Central and Eastern Europe
19.11.2007On November 12th 2007 in a widely attended industry event in Amsterdam, Euromoney’s Capacity magazine announced GTS CE as the winner of its annual “Best CEE Wholesale Provider” award. The judging panel included feedback from industry analysts and senior representatives from Yankee Group, Atlantic-ACM and Capacity magazine’s Editor-in-Chief and Editor.
GTS CE launches a unique regional MPLS network for retail customers
28.8.2007The leading central European fixed-line telecommunications group GTS Central European Holding B.V. (GTS CE) officially launches its unique regional MPLS network for retail customers. The MPLS network is a single robust and high-quality entity that covers five GTS CE countries (Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and the Czech Rep.) with a single Network Operation Center located in Prague. Using this network, companies operating throughout Europe can link their regional branch offices with fully sufficient and secure state-of-the-art data connection.
GTS Central Europe: stable revenue, 20% EBITDA growth
16.8.2007GTS Central Europe, one of the leading telecommunications service providers of the region, today reported its financial results for the first half of 2007. Achieving a solid underlying performance, the company’s revenues after elimination of inter-company transactions reached EUR 192 m that practically equalled with the same period last year. EBITDA grew by 20% to EUR 34,5 m compared to the same period in 2006.
GTS Nextra – Revenues Grew Throughout First Six Months
19.7.2007GTS Nextra, the largest alternative telecommunication operator, affirmed by its financial results its Number One position in the field of alternative providers of telecommunication services.
GTS Nextra - New product range of ADSL services
6.6.2007GTS Nextra, the largest alternative operator is now providing high speed Internet at advantageous prices regardless of whether the customer has a telephone line from ST or not. The monthly fees for the service start from as little as SKK 289.00 not including VAT and are final for the whole duration of the contractual relationship without any other hidden costs.
Revenues grew in the first quarter of 2007, too
25.4.2007GTS Nextra, the largest alternative telecommunications operator achieved the planned growth in turnover for the first quarter of 2007 and gross EBITDA profit in comparison with the same period in 2006.
GTS Central Europe for Palace Cinemas
11.4.2007GTS Central Europe (GTS CE), a Central European telecommunication operator the company GTS Novera is a part of, launched a new MPLS network for Palace Cinemas this February. Data connection and voice services network that interconnected Palace Cinemas’ multiplexes and affiliates in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary offers e.g. a remote access to mobile users and is also used by the booking and accounting systems.
GTS Nextra achieved an income of three quarters of a billion crowns last year
13.3.2007The largest alternative telecommunications operator GTS Nextra achieved a total level of income of SKK 768,217 mil. last year. In interim comparison this represents a growth of almost 18 percent from the income of SKK 652,291 mil. recorded in 2005. The company is also achieving superb results in terms of profit before tax, interest, depreciations and amortisation (EBITDA), which grew in the interim by 43 % to SKK 161,080 mil.
GTS Nextra, a.s. Regards Bilateral Agreement with ST on Number Portability as Temporary Solution
20.2.2007GTS Nextra, a.s. has agreed to enter into a bilateral agreement temporarily specifying the processes for carrying numbers between fixed telephone networks, proposed by Slovak Telekom, a.s.
GTS Central Europe connected JYSK internationaly
20.2.2007GTS Central Europe (CE) is delighted to announce the completion of a deal to provide a state-of-the-art MPLS network to JYSK covering the core of JYSK’s Central European operations (Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary).
Change of Chairman at GTS Nextra, a.s.
23.1.2007Shareholders of the largest alternative telecommunication services provider in Slovakia, GTS Nextra, a.s. have approved a major change in the company’s corporate governance structure. Mr Stanislav Molčan has been appointed the new chairman of the Management Board of directors, effective 15 December, 2006 and he has also been assigned to manage company, succeeding previous chairman of the Management Board, Mr Branislav Brezovič.
GTS Nextra Connects OTP Banka
16.1.2007GTS Nextra, the largest alternative telecommunication operator, has been already for several months successfully providing its services to OTP Banka. All bank’s 74 branches, agencies and offices throughout Slovakia have been completely connected to a Virtual Private Network (VPN), including Automated Teller Machines (ATM), making use of the advantages offered by the MPLS technology. Part of the project were also full backup facilities.
New products from GTS Nextra
20.11.2006The company GTS Nextra, a.s., has extended its offer of services for business clients with three new products to improve the quality of internal company communication, as well as company communication with customers.
Fast internet at half price
16.10.2006From October 16, 2006 GTS Nextra launches its new campaign - “Half price Internet”.
The Hodokvas precinct will be covered by the Wi-fi signal from GTS Nextra.
3.8.2006The new GTS venture is bound to meet with the enthusiastic approval of all computer fans. For the newly established GTS Nextra Café will also include a top speed connection to the Internet (technology 3.5 GHz, a capacity of cca 8mps) as well as serving excellent coffee and soft drinks.
GTS Nextra completed the integration of five alternative telecommunication operators
4.7.2006On the basis of a resolution by the sole partner or shareholder, the companies Aliatel Slovakia, s.r.o. GTS Nextra, a.s. (formerly Telenor Networks, a.s.), GTS Slovakia, s.r.o., Nextra, s.r.o., Quadia DCT, a.s. merged on June 30, 2006 with GTS Nextra, a.s., which became their successor company.
Mr. Stuart Evers was appointed GTS Central European Holding‘s Chief Sales Officer
21.6.2006In the middle of May 2006 Mr. Stuart Evers was appointed the Chief Sales Officer of the GTS Central European Holding (GTS CEH), a transnational telecommunication group GTS Novera, a Czech nationwide operator, is also the member of. In his new position, Mr. Stuart Evers is responsible for empowering GTS CEH’s position on the Central European telecommunication market. He manages activities of the entire group from GTS Novera‘s office in Prague.
GTS Nextra Hot Prices
19.6.2006Up to 44% discount on high-speed internet. This summer GTS Nextra Company is offering its new ADSL customers extraordinary discounts. Take advantage of our high-speed Internet ADSL service beginning at a monthly price of SKK 399.
The Perfect Internet and Voice Connection!
2.5.2006Superior telephone service and high-speed internet in one new suite starting from SKK 549.
Nextra has the best customer service!
13.4.2006The twelve Slovak telecom operators’ customer service departments were monitored over the past several months. The results were very different: some companies did very well, while others failed completely. Nextra passed as the best , Globatel the worst.
Brand New ADSL Service Product Line
10.4.2006GTS Nextra Company has begun providing as the first alternative telecom operator a complete line of ADSL services, giving full integration of DSL and Internet connections. GTS Nextra's ADSL services have fixed monthly fees involving no other hidden costs, are provided in a self-installation package, and are based on a single contract between the customer and GTS Nextra. For home users ADSL Home suites are available, and for company users there are ADSL Professional suites.
The Birth of GTS Nextra - The Largest Alternative Telecom Operator
7.4.2006The GTS Central European Holding B.V. group, of which the Slovak alternative telecom operator GTS Slovakia is also a member, in January this year gained a 100% stake in the companies Nextra, s.r.o. and Telenor Networks, a.s. The acquisition came after GTS' recent purchases of Aliatel Slovakia, s.r.o., and Quadia DCT, a.s. The five companies were united under the firm GTS Nextra, a.s., which thus became the largest alternative telecom operator in Slovakia.
The Birth of GTS Nextra - The Largest Alternative Telecom Operator
28.2.2006The GTS Central European Holding B.V. group, of which the Slovak alternative telecom operator GTS Slovakia is also a member, in January this year gained a 100% stake in the companies Nextra, s.r.o. and Telenor Networks, a.s. The acquisition came after GTS' recent purchases of Aliatel Slovakia, s.r.o., and Quadia DCT, a.s. The five companies were united under the firm GTS Nextra, a.s., which thus became the largest alternative telecom operator in Slovakia.
