Orange Slovensko
Slovakian telecommunication company
Orange Slovensko, a.s. is a Slovak mobile network operator, also offering fibre connections, since 15 January 1997 (previously named Globtel), when it became the first mobile operator in Slovakia to operate the GSM digital mobile network at the 900 MHz frequency. On 15 November 1999, the company launched the commercial operation of the mobile network in the 1800 MHz frequency band. It is also the first company to cover more than 66% of the country with 3G HSDPA high-speed internet with the maximum speed of 42 Mbit/s, launched the HSPA+ upgrade to the maximum of 21.2-42.2 Mbit/s in 2011. The operator plans to commercially operate LTE network by the end of 2012.
Since 27 March 2002, the operator has been providing services under the Orange brand name.
The company operates a countrywide network covering 99% of the population and 2,4 million active customers as of 2024.
Orange S.A. now owns a 100% stake in Orange Slovensko.
The company has recently launched commercial operation of FTTH (fibre-to-the-home) providing digital TV, fixed phone line for free and a high-speed internet connection with 100 Mbit/s download and 100 Mbit/s upload. There is one Internet plan (called FiberNet Super) with speed up to 100 Mbit/s and upload up to 1 Mbit/s.
“Orange Slovensko” enters the record as slovakian telecommunication company. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Orange, Slovensko and Slovakian can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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“Orange Slovensko” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Orange, Slovensko and Slovakian provides the most credible route into that argument.
Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3198815. Authority coordinates are 48.158, 17.130. 2 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1997, 1999, 1800 and 2011.
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This entry incorporates text from “Orange Slovensko” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.