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2022 Corporate Responsibility Report

Climate Protection at Magyar Telekom

Community Solar Project for Employees
In 2022, we continued the Community Solar Project. Our colleagues were able to rent 200 panels from our own solar power capacities. They received benefits such as an extra day off as a reward for their efforts and their contribution to our climate protection activities.

Green 1 GB
We would like to offer a choice of service to our customers who consider fighting against climate change as important as we do. Since 2019, they have been able to pick a service that protects the climate. This is the globally unique ExtraNet Green 1 GB option.  If a customer went for the ExtraNet Green 1 GB option in 2022, we continued to guarantee that we will generate the equivalent amount of energy needed to transmit their data using our own solar PV system. Every year, an increasing proportion of our customers has chosen this option.

#GreenMagenta
In order to reduce the harmful effects of waste on the environment: 

  • We make sure that unused equipment gets reused within the company, by selling it to employees or external partners, or by renting, leasing, or transferring it without compensation (donation)
  • We collect waste selectively at more sites
  • We improve the equipment’s effectiveness by upgrading our existing contracts, regularly updating collection points, and through communication

The principal aim of the company is to carry out its operations with minimum impact on the environment. We pay special attention to upgrading, repairing and reusing the equipment in our network. The reuse rate of CPE img devices is more than 30 percent.

We comply with statutory regulations in force and inform our customers about the various waste-disposal options for used equipment and batteries on our websites. The volume of such waste showed a decreasing trend even though we provide customers with an opportunity to exchange returned waste and receive a discount on the price of new devices.

All of the products we sell are certified with energy efficiency certificates in conformity with the requirements of the European Union. They are also in compliance with the environmental standards defined by Hungarian law. Manufacturers’ statements with detailed information about life cycle, reuse, recycling of the product, used materials, and repairability features are available in all our stores. All of our procured network equipment needs to meet our high standards of energy efficiency.