T-Mobile Netherlands

T-Mobile Netherlands BV
legal form	BV
founding	2000 (as Ben )
Seat	The Hague , Netherlands
management	Søren Abildgaard, CEO
Number of employees	1,386
sales	1.4 billion euros
Branch	telecommunications
Website	t-mobile.nl

T-Mobile Netherlands BV is the third largest mobile operator in the Netherlands and a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom AG . According to its own information, the company had 3.75 million customers in 2016.

history

In September 2000, Deutsche Telekom participated in the founding of the Dutch mobile operator Ben through its mobile communications holding company T-Mobile International AG . After increasing their stake to 50 percent plus one share, the complete takeover of the shares previously held by the co-shareholders Belgacom and TDC followed in September 2002 . On February 25, 2003, Ben was renamed T-Mobile Netherlands and all services and products continued under the group brand "T-Mobile".

In 2007, five years after entering the Netherlands, Deutsche Telekom took over the mobile operator Orange Netherlands from France Telekom . In return, France Telekom received a purchase price of 1.33 billion euros and the Spanish fixed line subsidiary ya.com, which was previously held by Deutsche Telekom . With this takeover, T-Mobile became the second largest mobile operator in the Netherlands, after KPN , but ahead of Vodafone . The brand name "Ben", which has not been used since 2002, was reintroduced in 2008 for cell phone contracts in the low price range.

Problems with the 3G network

After customer complaints and media reports, T-Mobile announced in May 2010 that the 3G network was overloaded. The reason given for this was the increased use of smartphones, which in some cases led to network failure or capacity problems in cities and metropolitan areas. The cities of Amsterdam and Utrecht were particularly hard hit . Due to public pressure, financial compensation was given to customers affected by the failure. To expand the network capacity, T-Mobile invested 10 million euros in the 3G network by the beginning of 2011.

Deutsche Telekom sales plans

In October 2015 it became known that Deutsche Telekom was negotiating with investors about the sale of T-Mobile Netherlands . The group wanted to concentrate more on markets in which it was not only represented in mobile communications, but also as a provider of landline and internet. However, the board of directors gave up its sales plans only a few months later after no agreement could be reached with the interlocutors on the planned purchase price of approx. 5 billion euros.

Takeover of parts of Vodafone and merger with Tele2

In mid-2016, Liberty Global and Vodafone negotiated the swap, sale and merger of parts of the company. As part of these negotiations, both companies announced that they would be setting up a joint venture in the Netherlands under the umbrella of the Liberty Global subsidiary Ziggo . Vodafone brought its mobile communications business into the new company in return for a corresponding investment. However, the European Commission only approved the merger subject to certain conditions. There were concerns that the concentration in the fixed line business was becoming too strong. Vodafone therefore decided not to bring its fixed network division into the new company and sold it to competitor T-Mobile Netherlands . The transaction was completed in December 2016 and the Vodafone part of the company was renamed T-Mobile Thuis in February 2017 .

On December 15, 2017, Deutsche Telekom AG and the Swedish Tele2 announced that they would merge their respective Dutch subsidiaries. Tele 2 Nederland is to be merged into T-Mobile Netherlands BV . In return for payment of 190 million euros, Deutsche Telekom AG is to receive a 75 percent majority of the shares. Tele2 would like to retain a 25 percent stake. However, the agreement provides that T-Mobile's radio towers and antenna sites will be spun off prior to the merger and will therefore remain the sole property of Deutsche Telekom AG . Approval by the competition authorities is expected in the second half of 2018. With the integration, the number of customers increases by 4.9 million customers (landline and mobile)

Brands and networks

• In addition to mobile telephony, landline tariffs are also offered under the T-Mobile brand in the Netherlands through the takeover of Vodafone. T-Mobile operates a 3G and 4G network for data transfer with data transfer rates of up to 60 MB / s.
• Until the takeover by Deutsche Telekom, Ben was the company's main brand and has since been used as a discount brand with cheaper tariffs.
• KNIPPR  is an online platform for live TV streaming over the Internet. In addition to access via a web browser , there are apps for mobile devices as well as Google Chromecast and Apple TV.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ben becomes T-Mobile Netherlands. February 24, 2003. Retrieved December 17, 2017 . 
2. ↑ EU Commission: T-Mobile can take over Orange Netherlands. In: Computerwoche . August 21, 2007. Retrieved November 5, 2017 . 
3. ^ IPhone overload: Dutch T-Mobile issues refund after 3G issues. In: Ars Technica . July 6, 2010, accessed December 16, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Network problems with T-Mobile door smartphones. In: NU.nl . May 28, 2010, accessed December 16, 2017 (Dutch). 
5. ^ T-Mobile: Op korte termijn geen oplossing voor belproblemen . In: Tweakers . ( tweakers.net [accessed December 16, 2017]).
6. ↑ T-Mobile reports oplossing of 3G problems . In: Tweakers . ( tweakers.net [accessed December 16, 2017]).
7. ↑ Alles over het netwerk, bereik en internetsnelheid | T-Mobile. Retrieved December 16, 2017 (Dutch). 
8. ^ T-Mobile Netherlands: Telekom is considering selling Netherlands subsidiary. In: Handelsblatt . October 20, 2015, accessed November 5, 2017 . 
9. ↑ Telekom cancels sales. In: n-tv . February 16, 2015, accessed November 5, 2017 . 
10. ↑ Europese Commissie keurt fusie Vodafone en Ziggo goed onder voorwaarden. In: Tweakers.net . August 3, 2016, accessed December 16, 2017 (Dutch). 
11. ^ T-Mobile Thuis nieuwe naam Vodafone Thuis. In: totaaltv.nl . January 12, 2017, accessed December 16, 2017 (Dutch). 
12. ↑ Deutsche Telekom AG: T-Mobile NL and Tele2 Netherlands are joining forces to compete against the market-dominating FMC duopoly in the Netherlands. Retrieved December 17, 2017 . 
13. ^ Netherlands: Deutsche Telekom takes over Tele2. In: Golem.de . December 15, 2016, accessed December 17, 2017 . 
14. ↑ T-Mobile Corporate | T-Mobile. Retrieved December 17, 2017 (Dutch). 
15. ↑ KNIPPR. Retrieved December 17, 2017 (Dutch).