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GTS CE launches a unique regional MPLS network for retail customers

August 30, 2007 – The 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 Republic) 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.

This is a ground breaking product launch as it provides a truly cross border MPLS network. Most international MPLS networks are simply a number of national networks linked together but now GTS CE offers customers a single Central-European wide MPLS network. As such, GTS CE customers can benefit from the following substantial technical and financial advantages:

· lower costs (a single network is cheaper to operate and run than several linked together)

· more robust networking (a single managed network run by GTS CE rather than several networks managed by different companies)

· highet network availability

· higher quality parameters

· quicker repair time

· centralised performance management and pro-active network maintenance

“This is a really significant product launch,” commented Stuart Evers, Chief Sales Officer of GTS CE. “To have a single, managed network covering the entire Central European region is unique. Our customers have been demanding a product like this from the market for some time and we are delighted to the ones to provide it. Even before the launch we seen phenomenal demand from large retail customers across the region and we now expect this to increase even further.”

Tamas Polgar, Chief Executive Officer of GTS CE, added: “This is a notable event as it sees GTS CE leverage our key competitive advantage – our regional network footprint. We are never the largest operator in the local markets in which we compete but once we move outside a single country and look at the market on a regional basis the situation changes and we see that GTS CE is a major player. The so called market leaders against whom we compete cannot boast of a product such as this…we have a unique position in the Central European market. Now the goal is to pass these benefits on to our customers.”

The company Palace Cinemas has used the new MPLS network within the pilot operations. The company interconnected its multiplexes and branches in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary through it. The new network provided for e.g. using the remote access function by mobile users or establishing a central booking and accounting system.

MPLS is the most powerful and secure IP technology available today. MPLS technology provides a unified network to assure data and voice communication among customer localities with QoS (Quality of Service), SLA (Service Level Agreement) - logically and securely separated customer VPN (Virtual Private Network) with various Value Added Features. All these features are now available from GTS CE on a single managed MPLS network across the entire Central European region.

About GTS Central Europe

GTS Central Europe (GTS CE) is a multi-layered infrastructure based provider of integrated telecommunications solutions for those countries of Central and Eastern Europe lying between Frankfurt and Istanbul. Using its own regional fibre network GTS CE provides; fixed voice, data, IP (Internet Protocol), MPLS and broadband services primarily to business customers as well as services to other telecoms carriers, mobile operators and providers of content. GTS CE’s primary countries of operation are Czech, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Romania with network extensions and local partnerships into the neighbouring countries of the Ukraine, Baltic States, Bulgaria, Russia, Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Moldova and Turkey. GTS CE has more than 1500 employees and reached EUR 382m revenue and 58.7m EBITDA in 2006.

For further information, please visit www.gtsce.com.

About GTS Telecom

ISO 9001 certified, GTS Telecom delivers to the business market the most reliable and stable telecommunications solutions in Romania, managed up to the connection interface of the client (end-to-end). The average SLA level of the communications solutions delivered to clients in 2006 was 99.85%, (average, 788 downtime minutes).
Positioned as Business Accelerator^TM, GTS Telecom delivers a full range of carrier services, corporate networking solutions based on TCP/IP, X.25 and Frame Relay, Internet services, telephony and hosting.
The company owns and operates its own fibre-optic cross-border network of 47.5Gbit/sec in Oradea with backup connections in Arad interconnecting the company with GTS Central Europe infrastructure. The 25Gbit/sec national network has ring topology and connects 19 PoPs. In Bucharest GTS Telecom owns and operates own fiber optic metropolitan network of 2.5 Gbit/sec and the 5.8GHz radio network entirely covering Bucharest.

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