Press release




O2 Czech Republic successfully refinanced its current debt and drew a new loan of up to CZK 12 billion


December 17, 2015


Pursuant to the article 119b paragraph 3 of the Act No. 256/2004 Coll., on Capital Market Undertakings, O2 Czech Republic a.s. (hereinafter the Company) announces that on December 16, 2015 it entered into Loan Facility Agreements in the total amount of up to CZK 12 billion. These facilities were jointly arranged by Komerční banka, a.s. (also acting as an agent), Česká spořitelna, a.s., Československá obchodní banka, a.s., UniCredit Bank Czech Republic and Slovakia, a.s., Raiffeisenbank a.s., Citibank Europe plc. and Tatra banka, a.s.


The Company benefited from favourable market conditions and will use this 5-year loan for refinancing of the current debt and also for general corporate purposes, including financing of the share buy-back, whose conditions have been approved by the General Meeting of the Company held on December 8, 2015. Overall loan terms and conditions and facilities structure enables the Company to maintain flexibility in managing its business in agile way.


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About O2 Czech Republic


O2 is the largest integrated telecommunications provider in the Czech market. At present we operate close to eight million mobile and fixed accesses, which ranks us among the market leaders in fully converged services in Europe. To users of mobile services in the Czech Republic we offer state-of-the-art HSPA+ and LTE technology. We have the most comprehensive proposition of voice and data services in the Czech Republic, and we actively exploit the growth potential of the various business lines, especially ICT. Our data centres, with total floor area of 7,300 square metres, rank us among the leaders in hosting, cloud and managed services. O2 data centres belong to the few commercial ones in Central Europe to have TIER III certification. With our O2 TV we are also the largest IPTV service provider in the Czech Republic. In January 2014, O2 became a member of the Czech investment group PPF.



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