Telefonica O2 Czech Republic, a.s. : Czech Martin Škop joins Telefónica Deutschland’s management

Martin Škop, the current chief technology officer in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, is moving to the same position in Telefónica Deutschland with effect from March 1. He will replace Andrea Folgueiras, who has been appointed Telefónica's chief technology officer in Brazil.

As the managing director, 43-years-old Martin Škop will be responsible for all of Telefónica'snetwork technologies in Germany. He will be reporting directly to general director René Schuster. Martin Škop has worked for Telefónica Group for more than six years. Since 2007, he has been the chief technology officer in Slovakia and since 2009 also in the Czech Republic. Mr. Škop had previously worked in the segment of data network development in Eurotel Praha and Nextel.

"I am pleased to welcome Martin Škop as the new director for network technologies. He brings great knowledge in fixed network and mobile technology as well as in the development of network services," said René Schuster, Telefónica Deutschland's general director and added: "He will support us to drive our ambitious goals, especially with regard to extending our mobile data network with LTE."

"This is the second major move of one of our top managers to Telefónica Germany recently. Martin Škop follows Jan Karas, who is managing sales in Germany. I am pleased that the experience of our Czech managers is noted also abroad. Our employees thus enjoy career growth opportunities," said Ctirad Lolek, Telefónica's HR director.

Contacts
Hany Farghali
Spokesperson
Telefónica Czech Republic, a.s.
public.relations.cz@o2.com
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Telefónica Czech Republic is a major integrated operator in the Czech Republic. It is now operating almost eight million lines, both fixed and mobile, making it one of the world's leading providers of fully converged services. The organization offers the most comprehensive portfolio of voice and data services in this country. It is paying special attention to the exploitation of the growth potential, particularly in the data and Internet sector. Telefónica Czech Republic operates the largest fixed and mobile network including a 3rd generation network, CDMA (for data), and UMTS, enabling voice, data and video transmission. Telefónica Czech Republic launched a LTE (Long Term Evolution) 4rd generation mobile communication network as the first operator in the Czech Republic. The new network offers the fastest available mobile Internet nowadays. Telefónica Czech Republic is also a notable provider of ICT services.

Telefónica is one of the world's largest telecommunications operators by market capitalisation. Its activities are centred mainly on the fixed and mobile telephony businesses, while its broadband business is the key growth driver underpinning both. It operates in 25 countries and has a global customer base of 312 million. Telefónica's growth strategy is focused on the markets in which it has a strong foothold: Spain, Europe and Latin America. Telefónica is a 100% private sector company with its shares listed in Madrid and other stock exchanges and more than 1.5 million individual shareholders.