Broadnet
| Broadnet AG
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| legal form | Corporation |
| Seat | Hamburg , Germany |
| management | Hans-Peter Kohlhammer (CEO) |
| Branch | Internet service provider |
| Website | www.broadnet.de |
The Hamburg company Broadnet AG was an Internet service provider . The internet connections were realized with directional radio and xDSL .
The company had its own backbone structures and a coherent directional radio and DSL network in 77 German cities. The headquarters were in Hamburg . In addition, Broadnet had other branches in Berlin, Bremen, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt / Fulda, Hamburg, Hanover, Leipzig, Munich and Stuttgart. The company had been listed in the Prime Standard of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since May 2000 .
In October 2007 the company merged with QSC AG and thus went out as an independent company.
Management and employees
The chairman of the board was Frank Brügmann, later Hans-Peter Kohlhammer, the technical board members were Christian Brügmann (focus on products, customers) and Clemens Plieth (focus on network operation), and Arnold Stender was the sales director.
Most recently, the company had around 200 employees in the areas of network, sales, marketing, customer care and service, finance, law and administration.
Network connection
In Germany , the company provided high-speed wireless Internet access under the dataAirways product group . Access to the Internet was implemented via radio relay. The transmission bandwidth was between 2 and 155 megabits per second. The service could be used full duplex.
By taking over KKFnet AG in 2002, Broadnet was able to expand its portfolio to include its own terrestrial internet connections.
In addition, Broadnet offered SDSL and ADSL Internet access with bandwidths from 192 kilobits per second to 16 megabits per second as symmetrical bandwidth and a fixed IP address.
Broadnet implemented Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) and Voice over IP . The Managed Data Services division included Application Service Providing and the four regional data centers in Hamburg, Berlin, Hanover and Munich.
history
In December 1995 the brothers Frank and Christian Brügmann founded mediascape communications GbR in Hamburg as an internet and service content provider. mediascape began in 1998 with the development of high-speed Internet access via directional radio ( wireless local loop ). Since going public on May 22, 2000, mediascape has continued to work on expanding the broadband infrastructure. By taking over four local Internet service providers in 2000, mediascape communications AG greatly expanded its range. In 2002, Broadnet Deutschland GmbH was taken over by the US company Comcast . Since then, the broadband internet carrier has operated initially as broadnet mediascape communications AG, from 2005 the official company name was only Broadnet AG. In July 2002, Broadnet took over KKFnet AG, a nationwide DSL carrier. Broadnet had the telecommunications licenses of classes 3 and 4 (permission for the operation of telephony and data communication). The company has grown steadily and generated sales of 51.1 million euros in the 2006 financial year, an increase of 39 percent compared to the previous year.
As of June 2006, the company had a majority shareholder, QSC AG from Cologne, who also came from the telecommunications sector.