A1 Telekom Austria Group

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A1 Telekom Austria Group

logo
legal form Corporation
ISIN AT0000720008
founding 1998
Seat Vienna , AustriaAustriaAustria 
management
  • Alejandro Plater ( COO )
  • Siegfried Mayrhofer ( CFO )
Number of employees 18,705
sales 4.47 billion euros (2018)
Branch Telecommunications , information technology
Website www.a1.group
As of December 31, 2017

The Telekom Austria AG , as A1 Telekom Austria Group called, is the largest telecommunications company in Austria and operates internationally. The Telekom Austria AG is the holding company and since 2000 on the Vienna Stock Exchange. It primarily performs strategic tasks and is on the market in Austria via the A1 Telekom Austria operating segment . Some mobile communications companies in Eastern and Southeastern Europe are also subsidiaries of the holding company. The group is majority owned by the Mexican telecommunications company América Móvil , which directly and indirectly holds a 51 percent stake. The second major shareholder is the state-owned Österreichische Beteiligungs AG , which holds a stake of 28.42 percent.

history

First logo with post horn
Former umbrella brand Jet2Web
Previous company logo
Old Telekom Austria Group logo

The Telekom Austria AG went in 1998 from the Post and Telekom Austria AG produced (PTA), the predecessor was the State Postal and Telegraph Administration (PTV) . In November 2000 the company went public on the Vienna Stock Exchange and on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) , and in 2007 it was de-listed on the NYSE.

In June 2000, the umbrella brand Jet2Web was created for around 15 million euros . The name Telekom Austria , which is often associated with civil servants, should be replaced by a dynamic brand identity. But the new brand could not prevail and was felt by many to be untrustworthy. Therefore it was discontinued in June 2002 and the company name Telekom Austria was used again as a brand with a new logo.

In June 2006, Telekom Austria AG was split into two independent companies: Telekom Austria Group as the strategic holding company and Telekom Austria FixNet AG with the separated operational fixed-line business . The Telekom Austria Group was the parent company of the existing mobilkom austria AG and the newly founded Telekom Austria FixNet AG . The two Austrian subsidiaries were initially positioned side by side as sister companies. Just one year later, Telekom Austria FixNet AG was renamed Telekom Austria TA AG , but this did not change the group structure.

In 2010, the landline and mobile phone subsidiaries were finally merged into Telekom Austria TA AG and renamed A1 Telekom Austria . Until the merger, Telekom Austria TA AG ( fixed network ) and mobilkom austria AG ( mobile communications ) were market leaders in their respective segments in the Austrian telecommunications market. The successor company A1 Telekom Austria now holds these market shares . In the course of this organizational merger, the foreign subsidiaries of mobilkom austria AG were transferred to the Telekom Austria Group . These are now directly subordinate to the holding company and the new A1 Telekom Austria is limited to the Austrian business.

In the summer of 2011, criminal misconduct by members of the company's board of directors became public in several areas between 2004 and 2006. In public these were summarized as the telecom affair .

In June 2012, the Mexican telecommunications company América Móvil acquired 23% of the shares in Telekom Austria from investor Ronny Pecik and increased its stake to around 51% in July 2014. As of November 2, 2017, America Movil directly and indirectly holds 51.0% of the shares, Österreichische Beteiligungs AG holds 28.42% and the remaining 20.58% are in free float.

At the end of 2018, the A1 Telekom Austria Group had 18,705 employees and generated around EUR 4.47 billion. The company's purpose is national and international wired and wireless telecommunication services, including company network data services, internet services and information technology (IT).

Ownership structure

proportion of Shareholders
51.00% América Móvil
28.42% Austrian Beteiligungs AG
20.58% Free float

As of May 29, 2019

International participations

The group of companies include not only the Austrian A1 Telekom Austria also in companies

All companies except Telecom Liechtenstein are wholly owned by the Telekom Austria Group . Four of the subsidiaries (all three vip brandings and mobilkom liechtenstein , now Telecom Liechtenstein ) were founded and built up as startups , the remaining three were already existing companies and were taken over.

At the end of September 2017 it was announced that all companies apart from the stake in Telecom Liechtenstein should be given the new name A1 .

In August 2019, due to internal disputes, the group terminated its shares in Telecom Liechtenstein and withdrew from business in Liechtenstein . The termination became final in July 2020.

Board

The Board of Management of the Telekom Austria Group consists of

Product areas

With the operational pillars of fixed network and mobile communication, A1 Telekom Austria Group acts through its subsidiaries as a total provider of multimedia solutions. Other business areas of the A1 Telekom Austria Group are A1 Digital with cloud and IoT solutions, as well as a convergent wholesale product portfolio for wholesale customers.

safety

At the beginning of October 2018, a hacker attack was successfully carried out on A1 Telekom Austria .

Due to a data leak from a server in the hosting division, customer data and passwords (in plain text) have been lost. A1 only reacted after Heise made the company aware of the attack.

criticism

In July 2016, the human rights organization Amnesty International accused Telekom Austria of being involved in spying on the population of Belarus through its subsidiary A1 Belarus . Accordingly, the company allows the government almost unlimited access to the communication of its customers and their data. Telekom Austria responded to the allegations by pointing out that it was obliged to comply with the laws of the country.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.a1.group/de/group/geschichte Geschichte
  2. ↑ Board of Directors | A1 Telekom Austria Group . Accessed August 31, 2018.
  3. ↑ a b https://pagestrip.com/downloads/910/6c3684e6dc54fa891b461e638c80e28f/A1_TAG_KJB_2018_deu.pdf
  4. ↑ a b Shareholder structure , accessed on July 19, 2019
  5. ^ New umbrella brand - Jet2Web ( Memento from May 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). Accessed July 19, 2011
  6. ↑ Merger of Telekom and Mobilkom in the commercial register. , The Standard , July 6, 2010
  7. ↑ Group website: Telekom Austria Group decides to integrate mobilkom austria and Telekom Austria TA. Accessed on March 10, 2014.
  8. ↑ firmenabc.at: Telekom Austria TA Aktiengesellschaft , FN 280571 f, founded June 28, 2006, Commercial Court Vienna. Retrieved March 10, 2014
  9. ^ A1 Telekom Austria Group: Combined Annual Report 2018 , accessed on October 24, 2019
  10. ↑ Heise.de : Telekom Austria also names foreign subsidiaries A1 , accessed on September 21, 2017
  11. ↑ heise online: A1 Telekom Austria withdraws from Liechtenstein. Retrieved July 24, 2020 .
  12. ↑ The A1 Telekom Austria Group's supervisory board appoints Thomas Arnoldner as Chief Executive Officer . OTS bulletin of July 26, 2018, accessed August 31, 2018.
  13. ↑ derStandard.at - America Movil takes action on A1 - Plater comes, Ottendorfer goes . APA notification dated March 5, 2015, accessed March 5, 2015
  14. ↑ Hacker attack October 2018. In: heise.de. October 5, 2018, accessed October 5, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Belarus: Telekom Austria only fulfills its duty on diepresse.com, July 7, 2016