Apple picker PR In the Czech Republic, mobile services are expensive, especially data. Not only customers do not like this, but also politicians and the Czech Telecommunications Authority have recently objected to mobile data prices. Even the operators themselves admit that the prices are many times higher than abroad.
Czech customers do not get unlimited data packages for unlimited tariffs. Depending on the price, they can choose a larger or smaller data limit. The client pays approximately CZK 750 for unlimited calls and SMS and 1,5 GB of data. However, with such a limit, you only need to download one movie and you will barely read emails and new messages for the rest of the month. The customers of our neighboring countries are much better off. In Slovakia alone, they will pay CZK 35 per month for a mobile tariff with up to 945 GB of data. And not only Slovaks can surf cheaply. Poles pay only CZK 1 for 30 GB.
Politicians also criticize the high prices of mobile data
Expensive mobile Internet has long been disliked by the Czech Telecommunications Authority (ČTÚ). Politicians have now joined the criticism of the regulator and together they have started appealing to mobile operators to lower data tariffs.
Among the politicians, the ruling ČSSD is mainly interested in the issue. Chairman Bohuslav Sobotka himself will discuss price reduction tactics with the ČTÚ management. The party wants the office to get more powers. His decisions must be accepted by the operators, not ignored. However, it is difficult to say to what extent the involvement of the ČSSD in problems that have been going on for years is populist. With elections approaching, this may not be the only effort to solve the problem for the benefit of consumers, i.e. voters.
ČTÚ wants to make mobile internet three times cheaper
Only now, thanks to the anonymous confessions of domestic operators, has it come to light that the Czech regulator covered so-called gray operators, i.e. companies that resell cheap mobile services not only to their employees, but also to their entire families, which is not correct. Such actions are very damaging to the mobile market.
Now there has been a demand from CTU for a threefold reduction in wholesale prices, which are the prices at which operators sell their services to virtual competitors. Unfortunately, according to the operators, the requested discount is completely meaningless. When calculating the discount, prices cannot be based on so-called secret offers or prices intended for business customers.
The Czech regulator is trying to straighten out the mobile market
If the Czech Telecommunications Authority dealt with the expensive data tariffs earlier and more forcefully, perhaps now there would not have to be any jump discounting and cooperation with politicians. The office itself is criticized not only by the ICT Union from the Internet business, but also by mobile operators. For them, the culprit of the market failure is the ČTÚ.
The Czech regulator admits that in the past the mobile market was distorted due to their passivity. But now the market is trying to straighten out again. At the same time, the ČTÚ management also criticizes and refutes the arguments with which domestic operators justify their high prices. A typical nonsensical example of all is that mobile data must be expensive due to the uneven terrain of the Czech Republic. In Switzerland or Austria, they have many more hills and mountains, and yet operators also offers prepaid cards with cheaper data than with us.
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Youngster? :-D I'm mainly interested in what I should take away from this article. Apart from the fact that we have expensive mobile data (which is common knowledge).
Šourek was completely taken aback by that message
You're stupid, I can't advise you, after all, I'm just a subject, the head and the main body...penis are on top of me :-D
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that's terrible nonsense. ČSSD is doing just fine with it.
Why did ČTÚ suddenly wake up to activity after so many years? What has the office been doing with public money all these years?
when, from July, rooming in the EU will be at the same price abroad as at home with the operator - will it be possible to conclude a cheap contract with Orange in France, for example, and have cheaper rooming in the Czech Republic?
Rooming is about calls, not data.
I think it should apply to the entire contract and if someone has data in the contract - they should have it at the same price as at home
When a gig in Poland costs 30 crowns, 10 gigs costs 300 crowns, so I have a better price. I pay 1000 for 4 numbers with unlimited calling and I have 10 gigs on each. And I've never stretched them yet. But if someone "must" have x movies on their phone that they will never play, that's their choice
Jirko, from whom and how can you get your tariff? Thank you.
Vodafone. I've been with them for many years, I've never been late paying even a single day, I've never yelled at anyone or threatened to leave, etc. And it's an individual offer from them.