RWE Telliance

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RWE Telliance AG

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legal form AG
founding 1993
resolution 2002
Seat Essen , Germany
management
  • Dietrich Schmidt, finance
  • Thomas Mecke, Law and Human Resources
  • Volker Hoffmann, Marketing and Corporate Development
  • Peter Schwarzmann, Technology and Multimedia
Branch telecommunications

RWE Telliance AG was a German telecommunications company founded in 1993 with headquarters in Essen , in which the utility company RWE had bundled its telecommunications activities in its own stock corporation.

history

With RWE Telliance , the RWE Group pursued the goal of participating in the German telecommunications market from the mid-1990s. For this purpose, shares in existing companies in Germany such as Talkline and E-Plus and other European countries ( diAx , Aliatel, Novacom) were taken over in the first few years . In addition, many smaller companies were bought together ( Miniruf , GfD (Gesellschaft für Datenfunk ), Teleport Europe, germany.net ) and supported with high investment sums . The financial possibilities for this came from the power business of the energy supplier RWE, which was still monopolized at the time. The technical basis of the telecommunications business was the fiber optic network of RWE Energie with a total length of 4,300 kilometers, which covered around 40 percent of the area of ​​the Federal Republic of Germany, and which was expanded into the largest private high-speed network by 1996. Since May 1996 the American telecommunications manager Alex Stadler has been the CEO of RWE Telliance AG.

After the operational business was split off into RWE Telekommunikation (RWE Telekommunikations GmbH & Co KG - merged into o.tel.o in 1997 ) in 1996, RWE Telliance only acted as a telecommunications holding company until its transition to RWE Com in 2002. During this time she was mainly involved in handling telecommunications activities (over 40 subsidiaries were dissolved or sold).

RWE aimed to become the second largest provider of telephone services in Germany after Deutsche Telekom . According to plans from 1996, the Telliance subsidiary should turn over two billion marks in 2000 . The merger of the alliance around Veba and RWE was, next to Mannesmann Eurokom , the main competitor of Telekom in the deregulated telecommunications market after 1998 . The newly founded company o.tel.o was the largest competitor in the telecommunications market in terms of customer numbers (> 1 million preselection customers). After Arcor took over o.tel.o in 1999 , Arcor became the largest private telecommunications provider in Germany.

Projects

In addition, RWE Telliance started various (pilot) projects such as Multimedia Gelsenkirchen or, together with VEBA, the Inforcity NRW project . One of the largest projects of RWE Telliance was the attempt to operate Powerline over the power grid of the parent company RWE Telekommunikation. The subsidiary RWE Powerline GmbH was founded for this purpose . This attempt failed miserably despite a three-digit million investment, and so buried all of RWE's telecommunications activities aimed directly at end customers.

Together with Thyssen Telecom AG, RWE Telliance operated a DECT test network in Gelsenkirchen and Duisburg using Ericsson system technology at the end of the 1990s . In addition to the in-house supply, as is known from the DECT telephones that are still in use today, DECT should also ensure supply outside of closed rooms in metropolitan areas. Due to the huge number of necessary DECT base stations, this project also failed.

Holdings

In early 1996, RWE Telliance wanted to start a joint venture with Viag Interkom , now O 2 (and the British telecommunications company BT Group, which was still involved at the time ) . At the same time, negotiations were carried out with Mannesmann and AT&T on closer cooperation. However, after extensive negotiations, there was no result, then the RWE Telliance in autumn 1996 its subsidiary RWE telecommunications with the VEBA subsidiary Vebacom (and the British telecommunications company involved at the time of Vebacom Cable & Wireless ) for o.tel.o. merged.

Main subsidiaries

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  • Logo from diAx

  • Talkline GmbH logo

  • Escom logo