1. Country: Czech Republic
Country suffix: .cz

Population: 10.5 million
Area: 78 864 sq km
Capital: Prague

2. Estimated number of hosts in the local Internet
Approx. 80 000 hosts (December 1998)

3. Estimated number of users in the educational/commercial/governmental sectors:
educational 50 000
commercial 128 000
governmental 35 000

4. List of major commercial ISP's
1. Bohemia.Net, a.s.
2. CESNET, z.s.p.o.
3. CZCOM, s.r.o.
4. Czech On Line, a.s.
5. GTS CzechNet, s.r.o.
6. IBM, s.r.o.
7. INEC, s.r.o.
8. Internet CZ, s.r.o
9. InWay, a.s.
10. LUKO CZECH-NET s.r.o.
11. NetForce, s.r.o.
12. PVT, a.s.
13. SPT Telecom, a.s.
14. Telenor CR, s.r.o.

5. List of major non-commercial ISP's
1. Econnect

6. Internet Service Providers operating their own backbone networks:

I. Bohemia.Net, a.s.
Present in 55 cities, intercity links up to 256k
Foreign connections: 512k satellite to Digex,
512k terrestial to Ebone and 2M terrestial to Germany.
Commercial ISP

II. CESNET, z.s.p.o
Present in 77 cities, runs ATM on major connections,
Foreign connections: 8M terrestial to Ebone and
16M to TEN34.
Commercial ISP

III. CZCOM, s.r.o.
Points-of-presence in 34 cities, 2M links,
Foreign connections: 512k satellite connection to
Ebone-Stockholm, 512k to Ebone-Prague and 256k
satellite connection to Pipex, US.
Commercial ISP

IV. Czech On Line, a.s.
Present in 23 cities, Frame Relay available,
Foreign connections: 2M to Ebone-Prague and
2M satellite link to Teleglobe.
Commercial ISP

V. EUnet Czechia, s.r.o.
Present in 23 cities, speed of intercity links unknown,
Foreign connections: 1.5M cable to Amsterdam,
1.5M cable to Bratislava and 1.5M satellite link
to Holland.
Commercial ISP

VI. Global One, s.r.o.
Present in two cities, 2M internal connection,
Foreign connections: 2M cable to Germany and 2M to US.
Commercial ISP

VII. GTS CzechNet, s.r.o.
Present in 3 cities, runs Frame Relay, PAD and X.25,
VSAT services available.
Foreign connections: 1M satellite to UUNET (US) and
64k terrestial to GTS, Hungary.
Commercial ISP

VIII. IBM +R, s.r.o.
Part of IBM Global Network, present in 23 cities.
Runs IP, SNA, links up to 1M.
Foreign connections: altogether 6M, terrestial.
Commercial ISP

IX. INEC, s.r.o.
Runs Frame Relay at speeds up to 2M, present in
15 cities.
Foreign connections: 2M cable to Germany and 2M to US.
Commercial ISP

X. InWay, a.s.
Points-of-presence in 37 cities, internal links up to 2M,
Foreign connection: 2M cable to UUNET, Frankfurt.
Commercial ISP

XI. LUKO CZECH-NET, s.r.o.
Present in 38 cities, lack of data about speed of
internal connections.
Foreign connection: 2M to AT&T.
Commercial ISP

XII. Mopos, s.r.o.
Runs Frame Relay and IP, lack of data about speed of
internal connections.
Foreign connection: via Ebone-Prague, 512k terrestial.
Commercial ISP

XIII. OASA computers, s.r.o.
Present in 10 cities, links 64k,
Foreign connections: 384k satellite to US.
Commercial ISP

XIV. PVT, a.s.
Present in 51 cities, lack of data about speed of
internal connections.
Foreign connections: 128k terrestial to UUNET (UK)
and 2M satellite to UUNET (US).
Commercial ISP

XV. SPT Telecom, a.s.
Present in 89 cities, all over the whole country.
Lack of data about backbone speed and technology.
Foreign connections: 2M cable to AT&T, Amsterdam,
2M cable to KPN, Amsterdam and
8M satellite to Teleglobe.
Commercial ISP

XVI. Telenor +R, s.r.o.
Present in 9 cities, 1M internal links,
Foreign connections: 1.5M satellite to Telenor, Norway.
Commercial ISP

7. More information about country:

• Academic/Research/Educational Network
• ESSAT Survey