Unified Digital Radio Communication System (EDR) supports flood control efforts

Budapest, June 11, 2010 – The high waters due to the extraordinary rainfalls of the past weeks caused unprecedented damage in several regions of the country. Pro-M Zrt., subsidiary of Magyar Telekom Plc., provides stand-by emergency communication for the cooperation, communication of the flood control forces of over 23.000 people (police, firefighters, soldiers, water management crews, volunteers) with the EDR (Unified Digital Radio Communication) system based on TETRA technology. Pro-M Zrt. treats the extra costs of the field operations as donation to the flood and damage control efforts. This amount exceeds HUF 8.5 million.

The company supports the radio coverage of the outlying areas by installing mobile EDR base stations, thus ensuring congestion-free emergency communication. The mobile base stations, which also use satellite technology, cover the areas most severely stricken by the flood and help reach the flood control vehicles (e.g. patrol lifeboats) in a concentrated manner.

’The flood control operations require extensive and complex organization work, to which the EDR system and its services provide indispensable technology. In extraordinary disaster situations prompt response, quick action and organized control are crucial in order to organize an appropriate emergency presence. The technology provided by Pro-M Zrt, with the background support of the Business Services Business Unit (T-Systems), make it possible to give fast and reliable help in disaster and emergency situations’, said Pro-M Zrt. CEO Béla Kozma.

Magyar Telekom, the parent of Pro-M Zrt. announced on Tuesday that it will give HUF 60 million assistance to the flood control works and also 200 T-Mobile Domino prepaid cards to the inhabitants of the hardest-hit settlements and the population involved in the rescue operations. The mobile phone donation of the company will also reach the beneficiaries through the Red Cross.

On Wednesday Magyar Telekom announced a donation campaign among its employees. The company will supplement the employee donations by twice the amount and will continuously send the proceeds to the flood victims through the Red Cross.

Pro-M Zrt.

Pro-M Professzionális Mobilrádió Zrt. (Pro-M Zrt.) is member of the Magyar Telekom group. Pro-M Zrt. operates the Unified Digital Radio Communications System (EDR) in Hungary, relying heavily in its activities on the experience of T-Systems, the Business Services Business Unit of Magyar Telekom.

The purpose of the closed radio communications system that ensures very high availability is to implement professional connections between various emergency and law enforcement bodies that enable faster, more efficient and secure implementation of the given tasks. The EDR is using TETRA technology in Hungary. TETRA is the acronym for a mobile telecommunications system designed for professional use called Terrestrial Trunked Radio. This technology is a unique combination of group communication services, mobile telephony, message sending and mobile data services available from the single radio unit.

The current users of the EDR service, which was implemented by the deadline of January 2007 by Pro-M Zrt. include the National Police Command, the Hungarian Customs and Finance Guard, the organizations of the Fire Service, the National General Directorate for Disaster Management, the National Directorate General for Environment and Nature Protection and Water Management, the National Ambulance Service, the Air Ambulance Service, the National Command of the Hungarian Prison Service, the Hungarian Army and the National Security Services.

In line with the practice followed by Magyar Telekom, the integrated management system of the Company was certified according to three standards: ISO 9001:2008 quality management system, ISO/IEC 27001:2005 IT security management system and ISO 14001:2004 environmental management system.

The company’s CEO is Béla Kozma who earlier ran Emitel Rt.

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