Peter Tolosi

In 1961, he started working as a transmitter operator at the Misina roof, at the Pécs TV station. He completed his university studies alongside his work, as a "correspondence" student at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Budapest University of Technology (BME), majoring in wireless telecommunications. In 1980, he also obtained a qualification as a color TV technology engineer.

From 1970 he worked as an engineer at the Pécs TV station. From 1978 he became the head of the Southern Transdanubian Telecommunications Inspectorate. From 1986 he was the deputy director of telecommunications at the Pécs Postal Directorate; then from 1990 he was the director of the Hungarian Telecommunications Company (Matáv) in Pécs.
From 1991, he became Deputy CEO of Telecommunications at Matáv in Budapest, then Deputy CEO of Technology and finally Deputy CEO of Logistics – until his early death at the age of 56.

He played a significant role in the market-like development and liberalization of the previously centralized state telecommunications industry. He played a decisive role in the separation of the former Posta (Posta, Antenna Hungária, Matáv), and in parallel with this, in the development of Matáv's identity, privatization, and mixed (Hungarian-German-American) ownership structure.
He is credited with initiating the construction of the domestic optical backbone network, which has been the basis of the country's telecommunications network ever since. When the internet broke through, he was among the first to recognize the important role of online content services in creating social publicity.

Award: Tivadar Puskás Award (posthumous, Hungarian Association of Information and Communication Sciences (HTE), 1999).