We offer world class telecommunications infrastructure services in Hungary

About CETIN Hungary

CETIN Hungary owns and operates one of the major telecommunications network infrastructures in Hungary with close to 3900 base stations across the country.

Thanks to our innovative partnerships, best in class employees and customer driven approach, CETIN Hungary’s objective is to provide a superior customer journey and outstanding performance by driving sustainable technology development and anticipating tomorrow’s needs today.

CETIN Hungary’s scope of business includes network planning and operation, transmission, data centre, IT infrastructure and security services.

With almost 200 CETIN Hungary employees, 24/7 support and extensive infrastructure deployment, CETIN Hungary has become one of Hungary’s most robust forward-looking provider of wholesale and business services.

Today, Yettel Hungary exclusively runs all its active and passive non-core mobile technology on our network.

CETIN Hungary’s 4G telecommunications infrastructure covers 99.9 % of the Hungarian population via its close to 3900 base stations across the country.

CETIN Hungary is also committed to become a major stakeholder in enabling the affordable introduction of 5G in Hungary. Representing one of the most exciting improvements in next generation mobile networks, 5G will bring higher speeds, more capacity and coverage, lower latency and a much higher reliability then previously enjoyed on 4G networks. CETIN Hungary’s predecessor organization has already held 5G trials in 2019 and is confident that as a neutral party, it is one of Hungary’s best positioned organizations to support the roll-out of 5G.

Our management

The company is its talented and enthusiastic professionals

  • Judit Kübler-Andrási

    CEO

    Judit joined CETIN Hungary as CEO as of September 1, 2022. She has more than 20 years of international experience in various leadership roles in telecommunications and management consulting. She worked at Magyar Telekom, Arthur D. Little and in the last 12 years at Deutsche Telekom. At Deutsche Telekom she held senior leadership positions in strategy, technology innovation and international B2B/wholesale areas.

  • György Gaszmann

    Digitalisation and Transformation Director

    Previously György has worked as Operations Director of CETIN Hungary. Prior to that he was IT Infrastructure Services Director at Telenor Common Operation since 2018. György has more than 20 years of experience within the telecommunications sector.

  • László Hornok

    Commercial Director

    Previously László has worked as Customer Relations and Business Development Director at Telenor Common Operation since 2018. László has more than 20 years of experience within the telecommunications sector.

  • Anna Hundt

    Human Resources Director

    Previously, Anna was Head of Core HR and Organizational Development at CETIN Hungary. Anna has more than 10 years of experience in both corporate HR and HR consultancy, predominantly in the telecommunications sector.

  • Zsolt Kozma

    Regulatory Affairs and PR Director

    Previously Zsolt worked as Regulatory Director at Telenor Common Operation since March 2020. Zsolt has more than 20 years of experience in public policy, regulatory affairs, regulated infrastructure wholesale and PR in various sectors including telecommunications and IT.

  • Balázs Kővári

    Operations Director

    Previously Balázs worked at Yettel Hungary, Telenor Hungary and at Telenor Common Operation in different regional and local leadership roles in the fields of IT and network operation. Balázs joined Pannon GSM in 1997, he has more than 25 years of experience within the telecommunications sector.

  • Balázs Nagy

    Network Strategy, Planning and Development Director

    Previously Balázs has worked as Network Implementation Director at Telenor Common Operation since 2018. Balázs has more than 25 years of network strategy and development experience within the telecommunications sector.

  • Zoltán Seprényi

    Security Director

    Previously Zoltán was Head of Security Engineering at CETIN Hungary. He has more than 15 years of experience in Information Security from various sectors including telecommunications, IT and banking.

  • Dr. Balázs W. Tóth, LL.M.

    Legal and Compliance Director

    Previously Balázs worked in the same position at Telenor Common Operation since April 2020. Balázs has more than 20 years of legal experience and knowledge from various sectors including telecommunications, IT and transportation.

  • Kata Urbancsok

    Finance Director

    Previously Kata was Head of Controlling and Accounting at Szerencsejáték Zrt. She has more than 15 years of experience in Finance, Controlling and Decision Support, and a strong telecommunications industry background gained e.g. at Vodafone Hungary, where she worked for over 10 years.

OUR VALUES

Customers - We Anticipate and Deliver

We strive to understand, anticipate, and serve the needs of our customers and their end-users. We are here to help them perform better and faster. Through keeping our promises, we provide excellent user experience.

People - Respect and Teamwork

We are proud of our talented, skilled and motivated colleagues. Ensuring their professional growth and well-being is our top priority. We believe that respect, open communication, and teamwork create the best foundation for success and friendly workplace.

Technology - The Backbone of our Existence

We are passionate about the technology that is the backbone of our existence. We design, build, and operate high quality networks and provide innovative solutions without any compromise on security.

Partnership - Communities and Innovators

We are proud members of the diverse communities, that we live in, and help them thrive. We also choose to partner with innovators who, like ourselves, believe that communications technology and services are here to improve the quality of life.

THE HISTORY OF CETIN HUNGARY

CETIN Hungary is a provider of wholesale mobile telecommunications infrastructure and related services as network planning and operation, transmission complimented also by data centre, IT infrastructure and security services and was founded in 2020 after undergoing a legal separation from Yettel Hungary.

The infrastructure separation enabled CETIN Hungary to increase its ability to manage the growing pressure of competition on the telecommunications market but also respond to much greater demand for improved services by consumers. The split from Yettel Hungary gives CETIN Hungary the opportunity to focus even more on R&D, drive and improve better long-term sustainable investments and offer opportunities in network cooperation with operators.

As a technology company, CETIN Hungary is dedicated to improving telco infrastructure deployment, utilization of assets, operations and maintenance with the aim to increase the network quality while the consumer oriented commercial companies, to whom CETIN Hungary offers its infrastructure, may focus even more on their customers and their needs.

This important milestone relies on the experience of an already by facts proven infrastructure split which occurred within the CETIN family. In 2015, the PPF Group, a leading telco group in the CEE, accomplished a successful structural separation between O2 Czech Republic and its spin off CETIN. The infrastructure separation model has proven that it enables each company to streamline its business and pursue more efficient and targeted investments. Today CETIN in the Czech Republic is the largest Czech wholesale provider of mobile and fixed telecommunications services.

Our owner

CETIN Hungary is owned by a joint venture between PPF Group (75 %) and Corvinus Nemzetközi Befektetési Zrt. (25 %).

About PPF group

PPF Group is an international investment group founded in 1991 in the Czech Republic. The organization invests in multiple market segments such as financial services, biotechnology, mechanical engineering and telecommunications.

PPF Group is present in 24 different countries spanning Europe, USA and Asia. As of 30 June 2019, PPF Group owned assets worth over EUR 47 billion and globally employed almost 150 000 people (as of 31 December 2019).

PPF Group offices in Prague, Czech Republic
PPF Group offices in Prague, Czech Republic

The PPF Telecom Group is a leading telecom player in Central and Eastern Europe. Through acquisition and consolidation, the Group portfolio comprises of five mobile operators, a convergent telco operator and 4 infrastructure operators. CETIN, CETIN Bulgaria, CETIN Hungary, CETIN Serbia, O2 Czech Republic, O2 Slovakia, Yettel Hungary, Yettel Bulgaria, Yettel Montenegro, and Yettel Serbia all fall within the PPF Telecom Group portfolio and play a key role in PPF’s commitment to being a long-term, mid-sized telecommunications owner in the CEE.

Over the last 30 years, over 2,5 billion Czech crowns were donated by the PPF Group to charitable causes.

PPF Group has numerous corporate social responsibility projects in the countries where it operates, focusing its support on three areas in particular: education, arts and science.

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CETIN HUNGARY NETWORK


CETIN Hungary owns and operates one of the largest 5G/4G/3G/2G telecommunication network infrastructure in Hungary. Thanks to our innovative partnerships, best in class employees and customer driven approach, CETIN Hungary’s objective is to provide a superlative customer journey and outstanding performance by driving sustainable technology development and anticipating tomorrow’s needs today.

CETIN Hungary’s 4G telecommunications network infrastructure covers 99,9 % of the Hungarian population via its close to 4000 base stations across the country.



Technologies

5G

5G represents one of the most exciting innovations in next generation mobile networks in the history of mobile telecommunications. 5G brings customers higher speeds, more capacity as well as coverage, lower latency and a much higher reliability than previously enjoyed on 4G networks. CETIN Hungary launched 5G network infrastructure in 2021. We are expanding and developing our 5G technology which is enabling us to broaden our services to our customers and their end users.

4G & 4G Advanced

LTE technology (Long Term Evolution) has been in operation since 2015, has reached an outdoor national coverage of 99,9 % of the population. This technology represents the fourth generation of mobile networks (4G) and provides customers with unique experience in using the services which demand high speeds of data transfer, as well as faster access to applications, such as video contents (Youtube, streaming, mobile TV, etc.), watching high-quality video files (up to 4K format), music streaming, uploading and downloading files, photos and other contents.

CETIN Hungary’s 4G Advance infrastructure is a combination of various features and functionalities from the 4G network, which enables faster web search. Excessive speeds are achieved by aggregating multi LTE carriers and utilizing the available spectrum.

3G

This technology is currently being phased out.

2G

2G has been in operation since 1994, for voice and currently as the data access technology for legacy m2m/IoT devices. Our 2G network has reached 99,8% national population coverage.