EE Limited

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EE Limited

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legal form Limited Company
founding July 1, 2010
Seat Hatfield , UK
management Chief Executive Officer
Marc Allera
Number of employees approx. 14,000
sales £ 6 billion
Branch Cellular
Website ee.co.uk
Status: 2015

Company headquarters in Hatfield Business Park , in 2008

The EE Limited , with about 30 million customers of the second-largest British mobile operator after Telefónica UK and followed by Vodafone UK and Three , based in Hatfield , Hertfordshire north of London . The company has been part of the BT Group plc since January 2016 .

The company was created under the name Everything Everywhere on July 1, 2010 through the merger of T-Mobile UK and Orange UK , the mobile communications subsidiaries of Deutsche Telekom AG and France Télécom SA in the United Kingdom.

history

prehistory

The German Telekom was accepting the One2One represented -Netzes from 1999 on UK mobile market. One2One was originally created by the telecommunications consortium Mercury Communications Ltd. which, based on the fixed line and cable television business, entered the mobile communications market from 1993 onwards. To do this, they installed the world's first radio network based on the DCS-1800 frequency range, which was only used in Germany years later in the electrical networks . However, the Mercury consortium went under in October 1996 through a merger with three other fixed network operators and the mobile communications division was taken over by the main owners, Cable & Wireless Communications Ltd. and MediaOne Group, Inc. sold to Deutsche Telekom in 1999 for £ 6.7 billion . The name was changed to T-Mobile UK on August 2, 2002 and the headquarters moved from Borehamwood to Hatfield Business Park . The network infrastructure was also used at times by Virgin Mobile , which did not have its own network. For some time the company also appeared as a sports sponsor and supported, for example, the football club West Bromwich Albion .

France Télécom SA acquired the British subsidiary of the Orange mobile communications group in May 2000 after Vodafone was forced to sell it for antitrust reasons as part of the takeover of the German conglomerate Mannesmann .

Everything Everywhere

Until the end of 2009, the two founding companies were in competition with each other. On September 8, 2009, however, Deutsche Telekom AG and France Télécom SA announced their intention to bring their mobile communications divisions in the United Kingdom into a joint venture , in which both sides would each hold 50 percent of the shares. On November 6, 2009, the new partners finally signed the contract. After the supervisory boards of both companies and the antitrust authorities had approved the merger, Everything Everywhere Ltd. was founded on April 1, 2010 . founded.

With effect from July 1, 2010, all activities of T-Mobile UK and Orange UK were transferred to Everything Everywhere Ltd. transfer. This ended the independence of the two companies. The two brands remained in existence temporarily, but were to be replaced by the uniform brand EE in the long term .

EE Limited

During 2014, there were initial reports that the owners were considering a sale, possibly through an IPO. In 2015, Deutsche Telekom and Orange SA, which had since emerged from France Télécom , sold their joint British subsidiary to BT Group plc , a successor to the former state-owned British Telecom . The approval of the takeover by the competition authority was granted in January 2016. The purchase price of £ 12.5 billion was paid in large part in shares. The German Telekom received about 12% minority stake in BT Group and became its largest shareholder. Orange SA received 4% and around £ 3.4 billion in cash. In 2017, Telekom had to announce a 2.2 billion dollar depreciation because this block of shares was worth significantly less than originally assumed due to the devaluation of the British currency as a result of the so-called Brexit and an accounting scandal.

EE Limited already enacted a savings program worth around £ 360 million in June 2016. Among other things, consideration was given to the continued existence of the headquarters in Hatfield, which had changed its address shortly after the takeover within the Hatfield Business Center . In the future, some office floors in the BT Center in London could be used, where the integration of the various business areas "under one roof" will be easier.

To this day, EE operates an IPTV service that was still introduced under Orange UK and can be received via the "EE TV-Box".

Logos and branding

Individual evidence

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  6. T-Mobile UK: Telekom and Orange cooperate. In: Handelsblatt . September 8, 2009, accessed February 6, 2017 .
  7. Andreas Wilkens: Clear the way for the merger of T-Mobile UK and Orange. In: Heise online . March 1, 2010, accessed February 6, 2017 .
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  9. Telekom becomes BT Group’s largest shareholder ( memento of the original from August 30, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: boerse.ARD.de , February 5, 2015, accessed on May 20, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / boerse.ard.de
  10. Brexit damage - billions in write-offs on BT Group burdened Telekom . In: Manager Magazin , March 3, 2017, accessed May 20, 2017
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