A1 Telekom Austria

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A1 Telekom Austria AG

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legal form Corporation
founding 2007 (from the merger of Telekom Austria TA AG and mobilkom austria AG)
Seat Vienna , Austria
management
  • Marcus Grausam (CTO and CEO )
  • Sonja Wallner (Finance)
Number of employees 8,352 (2016)
sales EUR 2.58 billion (2016)
Branch Telecommunications , information technology , mobile communications
Website www.A1.net

A1 Telekom Austria (brand identity: A1) is the leading communications provider in Austria with more than 5.4 million mobile and 2.3 million landline customers and operates its own networks for mobile and location-based telephony. The company is a 100% subsidiary of the A1 Telekom Austria Group , which is active in a total of eight countries in Central and Eastern Europe . It employs 8,352 people in Austria.

A1 Telekom Austria offers convergent communication solutions . The product portfolio includes voice telephony, internet access, digital cable television, data and IT solutions, value-added services, wholesale services and mobile business and payment solutions. A1 Telekom Austria operates on the market under the brands A 1 (entire basic range), bob ( no-frills mobile communications) Yesss ! (Mobile communications), Red Bull MOBILE (cooperation with Red Bull ) and educom (offer for students).

history

On July 8, 2010, was mobilkom austria AG in the Telekom Austria TA AG merged and then this in A1 Telekom Austria renamed . The previously foreign subsidiaries of mobilkom austria AG were subordinated directly to Telekom Austria in the course of the merger. A1 Telekom Austria is therefore exclusively responsible for the holding's Austrian market in the mobile area as well. With this organizational consolidation of its fixed network and mobile communications areas, Telekom Austria followed a global trend of the 2000s / 2010s to reverse the separation of fixed network and mobile communications that took place in the 1990s.

June 14, 2011, with the revised former mobile brand A 1 a joint brand for all product areas of A1 Telekom Austria created. Before that, the fixed-line voice telephony (Telekom Austria), fixed-line Internet (aon), digital television ( aonTV ) and mobile communications (A1) product areas each had their own brand identity. In addition to this common brand, A1 Telekom Austria continues to operate under the bob , yesss ! and Red Bull MOBILE .

management

From May 2016 to October 2017 Margarete Schramböck was Chief Executive Officer (CEO), before that this was Alejandro Plater, who succeeded Hannes Ametsreiter on an interim basis . In October 2017, CTO Marcus Grausam also initially took over Schramböck's duties on an interim basis. Marcus Grausam was confirmed as CEO in September 2018.

On May 15, 2019, Thomas Arnoldner became Chairman of the Supervisory Board of A1 Telekom Austria.

Product areas

The company provides conventional landline connections ( POTS ), ISDN , xDSL and Asynchronous Transfer Mode . In addition, the Datex-P network is operated, to which the lottery / tote terminals, ATMs and ATMs are connected. In Austria, the company is also responsible for the operation of the public telephone booths , 1,000 of which were technically upgraded to so-called multimedia stations (MMS) in 2003, which now enable telephony as well as access to the Internet and the sending of SMS messages and pictures .

Fixed line internet products are also offered. These include fiber optic services, dial-in , ADSL and VDSL .

Since March 2006 digital television ( IPTV ) has been broadcast with A1 TV (formerly aonTV ) . With the Mediabox , more than 150 television and over 300 radio stations can be received, video-on-demand , the link between television and PC and other services such as an online hard drive are also available.

In the mobile communications segment, the company operates on the Austrian market with the brands A 1 , bob and Red Bull MOBILE . After the takeover of Orange by Hutchison Drei Austria , A1 took over the Orange subsidiary yesss ! In January 2013 .

Network infrastructure

In the field of mobile communications, the company offers GSM , EDGE , UMTS , HSDPA , HSPA + HSUPA and LTE technologies of different generations. Depending on the location, one or more technologies are available. With the 4th generation of LTE (Cat-6) mobile communications, speeds of up to 300 Mbit / s are currently achieved in the A1 network. According to a test by the trade magazine Connect in 2014, the company has the best mobile network in Austria and comes first in eight out of nine categories. On January 25, 2020 A1 plans to start operating the 5G network with 350 transmitter locations in 129 municipalities .

In the fixed network area, 97% of the Austrian population can currently be reached with ADSL. Wherever the fiber-optic expansion of the copper-based “last mile” - that is, the route from the exchange to the end customer - does not make sense for the time being, broadband access is implemented using fiber to the exchange (FTTEx). Due to the exponentially increasing volume of data, the need for reliable connections is growing. Therefore, the existing copper lines are gradually being replaced by fiber optic lines. In 2014, over 3 million households and businesses could be reached with the A1 fiber optic network, that is around 70%. A1 operates its network 100% CO 2 neutral and achieves this by avoiding CO 2 , increasing efficiency, using renewable energy and compensating.

regulation

The former subsidiary of Telekom Austria was originally the only company in the fixed network sector and took over the largest line network in Austria as well as the not inconsiderable debts. Due to the liberalization of the telecommunications market in Austria, the number of providers of telecommunications products and telecommunications services grew. The broadcasting and telecommunications regulatory GmbH (RTR) regulated since the Austrian market. Your primary task is to ensure effective competition and to intervene in disputes.

Market share

The market share for telephony (landline and mobile communications) was 45.1% at the end of 2016. The broadband market share was 45.4%. The predecessor of A1 Telekom Austria in the mobile communications sector, mobilkom austria AG , has been the market leader in terms of the number of end customers in Austria since its inception.

At the end of December 2016, A1 Telekom Austria had a market share of 39.1% of Austrian mobile phone connections.

criticism

At the Big Brother Awards Austria 2008 ( negative price ), A1 Telekom Austria won the audience award for its handling of customer data in relation to the porn industry.

In mid-November 2017, the mobile communications market leader was accused of not billing the data volume of selected streaming services. The regulatory authority then started investigations into a possible violation of network neutrality.

Discontinued products

  • abroadband was a product for worldwide mobile internet. It was presented in February 2011 and discontinued on April 1, 2014. Abroadband products can no longer be purchased or used.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Marcus Grausam confirmed as A1 CEO . Article dated September 4, 2018, accessed September 4, 2018.
  2. ↑ a b c A1 company presentation 2017 (PDF; 2.3 MB) Retrieved on July 25, 2017 .
  3. ↑ http://www.telekomaustria.com/daten/Verschmelzungsvertrag.pdf (link not available)
  4. ↑ A1 Telekom Austria gets a uniform brand. In: Der Standard / APA-OTS . Retrieved April 28, 2011 .
  5. ^ Kurier: A1 boss Margarete Schramböck is leaving Telekom Austria . Article dated October 17, 2017.
  6. ↑ The A1 management team. Retrieved August 28, 2019 .
  7. ↑ aonDigital TV from Telekom Austria. In: press release. Telekom Austria, accessed on June 27, 2011 .
  8. ↑ http://kurier.at/wirtschaft/marktplatz/yesss-kunden-wandern-im-sommer-ins-a1-netz/2.560.788 Courier: Yesss! Customers migrate to the A1 network in summer
  9. ↑ FRQ Spectrum. Rundfunk- und Telekomregulierungs GmbH, accessed on June 7, 2011 .
  10. ↑ Austria's cell phone networks in the test. In: connect . Retrieved April 30, 2015 .
  11. ↑ A1 starts 5G network with 350 transmitters . Article dated January 20, 2020, accessed January 20, 2020.
  12. ↑ Infrastructure. A1 Telekom Austria, accessed on June 7, 2011 .
  13. ↑ Definition of FTTE ( Memento of October 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  14. ↑ A1 company presentation (PDF)
  15. ↑ A1 company presentation . Retrieved November 2, 2017 .
  16. ↑ http://www.rtr.at/de/inf/TK_Monitor_Q3_2016/RTR_Telekom_Monitor_Q3_2016.pdf/2015 (link not available)
  17. ↑ Telekom Austria awarded for passing on porn data. In: The Standard. October 28, 2008, accessed February 23, 2016 .
  18. ↑ Net neutrality: Investigations against A1 Telekom Austria. In: heise.de. November 15, 2017. Retrieved November 30, 2017 .
  19. ↑ What is abroadband? - mobile internet around the world. Retrieved June 24, 2011 .
  20. ↑ Homepage. Retrieved September 5, 2014 .