Sunrise Communications

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Sunrise Communications AG

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legal form Corporation
ISIN CH0267291224
founding 2001
Seat Opfikon , SwitzerlandSwitzerlandSwitzerland 
management
Number of employees 1,739 FTE (2019)
sales 1.887 billion CHF (2019)
Branch Mobile communications , telecommunications
Website www.sunrise.ch
As of December 31, 2019

Number of customers (2015)
Cellular 2,410,000
landline 390,000
Internet 340,000
TV 130,000
Total number of customers 3,300,000

The Sunrise Communications AG , based in Zurich is the second largest with around 3.3 million customers Swiss telecommunications -Unternehmen by Swisscom and since February 2015 the Swiss stock exchange. It offers mobile communications and landline services under its own name, Sunrise, as well as mobile communications solutions under its brand names Yallo , Ortel Mobile and Lebara (all three Sunrise subsidiaries).

The Carrier Pre Selection Code used by Sunrise until the end of 2017 was 10707 (previously diAx: 10766).

Sunrise headquarters in Zurich since March 2010
Former headquarters in the Sunrise Tower in Zurich Seebach

On June 18, 2020, the takeover of Wilmaa by Sunrise became known.

In August 2020, Sunrise was acquired by Liberty Global for $ 7.4 billion.

Service areas

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Cellular

With 2.49 million mobile customers (end of 2013), Sunrise is the second largest mobile network operator in Switzerland with a market share of 27.0%. The number of customers does not include wholesale customers or customers of other providers ( Lebara , Aldi Suisse Mobile , Quickline , Yallo and TalkTalkMobile ).

The company has concluded 360 roaming agreements in over 180 countries and was a founding member of the Starmap Mobile Alliance .

landline

Sunrise has a fiber optic network with a length of 10,841 kilometers and more than 93 points of presence . The company has developed around 85% of house connections with its own infrastructure. At the end of 2013, Sunrise had around 440,000 customers in the fixed line network.

Internet and data communication

Sunrise offers access to WiFi hotspots . At the end of 2009 around 600 hotspots were set up. At the end of 2013, Sunrise had 350,000 internet customers. The number of ADSL connections is increasing. The availability for DSL is over 98% of the landline connections. Sunrise uses ADSL2 +, VDSL and fiber optic technology.

watch TV

Sunrise TV, the latest generation of entertainment, is characterized by a large selection of HD channels in the basic package, the "ComeBack TV" and "Live Pause" functions as well as many TV and radio channels. The devices are criticized as power guzzlers.

Company history

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Sunrise advertising tram on Limmatquai , Zurich

Sunrise was created from the merger of diAx and what was then sunrise in 2001. diAx was founded in 1997, started operations in December 1998 and at that time belonged to 40% of the US-American SBC Communications , 50% to Swiss energy providers and 10% of the German RWE AG . At that time sunrise belonged primarily to the BT Group and the Danish Tele Danmark ( TDC A / S ), with Migros and the Swiss Federal Railways as junior partners. In 2000 the two companies wanted to prevent billions of euros from being paid for UMTS licenses. As a result of the merger of diAx and sunrise , there were only four applicants for the four UMTS licenses advertised. After the merger, an agreement was reached on the new brand name sunrise and the newly created company TDC Switzerland AG became a 100% subsidiary of TDC A / S.

At the end of January 2006, the Nordic Telephone Company (NTC) took over 88.2% of the shares in TDC A / S , the parent company of Sunrise. Since October 4, 2007, the name of the company has been Sunrise Communications AG and the brand name Sunrise is capitalized. The name “Sunrise” in the Frutiger font serves as the new logo , which is intended to underline the company's Swiss roots. Furthermore, their new motto was “Courageous. Vital. Honest. Easy.".

On September 29, 2008, Sunrise announced the takeover of its competitor Tele2 Switzerland . Tele2, which had 491,000 customers, initially remained as a brand and the employees were taken over. On November 1, 2011, however, the license rights to the name “Tele2” expired, and the website was changed to “Tele4U”.

In November 2009, France Télécom and TDC announced their intention to merge their Swiss subsidiaries Orange Communications and Sunrise. France Télécom would hold 75% and TDC 25% of the new company. Combined, the new company would have had a market share of around 38% in mobile communications and around 13% in broadband connections. On April 22, 2010, the Competition Commission (WEKO) prohibited the merger. The reason given was the dominant position in the mobile communications market of the merged company together with Swisscom . In addition, the most active network operator on the market would have left the market.

In September 2010, TDC A / S and Luxembourg gave private equity -Gesellschaft CVC Capital Partners have announced an agreement for the purchase of Sunrise by CVC for 3.3 billion francs made. The transaction was completed on October 28, 2010 after approval by the Swiss competition and regulatory authorities.

In 2015, Sunrise went public . The German telecommunications provider Freenet has been the main shareholder since 2016 .

On February 27, 2019, Sunrise Communications announced the planned takeover of UPC Switzerland from the British media group Liberty Global for 6.3 billion francs (around 5.5 billion euros). Shortly after the agreement was signed, the main shareholder Freenet called for renegotiations. The takeover application was examined by the competition commission and approved without any conditions. In September 2019, the approval was given by the Competition Commission. Next, Sunrise shareholders would now have to agree to a necessary capital increase . After it became clear in October 2019 that the takeover deal would not win a majority of the shareholders' votes, the Extraordinary General Meeting was canceled and the contract with Liberty Global, the owner of UPC, was terminated. CEO Olaf Swantee stepped down with immediate effect at the beginning of 2020, and Chairman of the Board Peter Kurer announced that he would no longer stand for re-election at the next Annual General Meeting in April 2020.

At the end of May 2020, it became known that Sunrise was able to achieve partial success in a far-reaching lawsuit against Swisscom regarding the allegation of abuse of the dominant position in the field of broadband internet access ( ADSL ) in the years 2001 to 2007 and the resulting pricing policy. This accusation was confirmed by the Swiss Competition Commission as early as 2009 and Swisscom was therefore sentenced to a fine of around CHF 220 million, whereas Swisscom appealed and went to the next instance. The judgment has now been confirmed in a milder form. Sunrise demanded damages totaling CHF 350 million excluding interest.

  • Logo from diAx

  • Logo until October 4th 2007

  • Logo until March 8, 2017

Development of the cellular network

2nd generation cellular network (GSM / EDGE)

On April 20, 1998, what was then diAx AG received the license to operate a dual-band mobile network ( GSM 900 and 1800) in Switzerland. After an intensive build-up phase, the mobile network was already operational in December 1998. Initially, however, the network was only available along highways and in urban areas. Through the continuous expansion of the mobile network, even in rural regions, Sunrise achieved continuously better coverage, v. a. also because the network of the Swiss Federal Railways could be used as a backbone .

In the meantime (at the end of 2014) the level of coverage with GSM (2nd generation of mobile communications) is 99.8% of the populated area in Switzerland.

In December 2000, the company was the first mobile operator in Switzerland to launch GPRS services on the Swiss market. DiAx was the first provider worldwide to activate this service for prepaid cards. In the same month, shortly after it became known that diAx and what was then sunrise , the company acquired one of the four nationwide UMTS concessions as dSpeed.

In December 2005 Sunrise started with a hybrid network based on GPRS, EDGE and now also UMTS (3G) with data transmission rates of up to 384 Kbit / s . Since the end of 2006, the entire GSM network has been EDGE-capable across the board. Today, the 2nd generation mobile network (GSM or EDGE) from Sunrise reaches 99.8% of the Swiss population.

Sunrise wanted to take the 2nd generation mobile network out of service at the end of 2018, but revised this decision again later.

3rd generation mobile network (UMTS / HSPA +)

Coverage with the 3rd generation mobile communications standard (3G or UMTS ) is over 96% of the populated area of ​​Switzerland, which means that Sunrise achieves almost the same area coverage as the market leader Swisscom (98%). This is despite the fact that Sunrise operates the fewest mobile phone antennas or base stations (approx. 4000) of all three Swiss network operators. However, since 2012, Sunrise has converted its 3G network across the board to the 900 MHz spectrum (UMTS900) outside of major cities, where Sunrise has the same large frequency spectrum as Swisscom (30 MHz), but consistently for the parallel use of 2G and also used 3G at the same time. The advantages of UMTS900 compared to the frequency band of 2100 MHz (UMTS2100), which is otherwise mainly used in continental Europe, are the significantly greater range and the (thereby) better coverage inside the building.

In the course of the changeover to UMTS900 since 2012, Sunrise has also upgraded its network across the board with the 3G accelerator HSPA +. This enables theoretical data transfer rates of up to 42 Mbit / s .

4th generation cellular network (4G / LTE)

Sunrise put the 4th generation mobile network ( LTE Release 8) into operation on June 19, 2013 as the last of the three Swiss mobile network operators. For the time being, only large metropolitan areas were covered. In contrast to the other network operators, however, 4G was activated for all mobile phone customers on the Sunrise network (postpaid and prepaid as well as for customers of mobile phone discounters ) right from the start. Thanks to an increase in investments in 2014 and the consistent use of the newly acquired 800 MHz frequency spectrum (band 20; from LTE Release 9), Sunrise was able to make progress in area coverage in 2014 and 2015. In addition, since the beginning of 2015, test runs of joint network use with Salt have existed. The 4G signal from Salt is released for Sunrise customers because it offers high capacities and high availability. The network identifier (name shown on the display of the mobile phone) remains the same for the respective customer, however, and the network is only switched to the technology of the other provider if the own network does not cover the corresponding technology at the respective location; see also MORAN .

Sunrise achieves 4G population coverage of 98% of the population and 94.3% of the area coverage, which is a very high value in an international comparison. In mid-June 2016, Sunrise introduced 4G + ( LTE-Advanced ) in larger Swiss cities , which enables speeds of up to 300 Mbit / s to be achieved.

Development until 2016

According to the company, the entire Sunrise mobile network will be upgraded to 4G / LTE by 2016. For this purpose, more and more antenna locations are being developed by Sunrise directly with fiber optics in order to be able to handle the high data traffic (download and upload). In addition, in spring 2014, Sunrise became the first Swiss provider to announce the expansion of the 4G network to LTE-Advanced (referred to as 4G + in Switzerland).

5G

The new 5G cellular standard is currently being put into operation.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sunrise Communications AG in the Zefix
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  10. ^ Liberty Global acquires Swiss operator Sunrise for $ 7.4 billion. In: telecomstechnews.com. August 12, 2020, accessed on August 12, 2020 .
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  38. ↑ 4G / LTE: Mobile high-speed Internet for all Sunrise customers , Sunrise press release, accessed on September 3, 2014.
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  40. ↑ Sunrise exceeds its target , www.sunrise.ch, accessed on October 25, 2017.
  41. ↑ The Sunrise LTE cellular network is getting even faster , Sunrise media archive, www.sunrise.ch, accessed on November 1, 2014.
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