TDC (company)
| TDC A / S
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| legal form | Aktieselskab |
| ISIN | DK0010253335 |
| Seat |
Copenhagen , Denmark
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| Number of employees | 17,390 (2007) |
| Branch | telecommunications |
| Website | tdc.com |
TDC A / S ( T ele D ANMARK C ommunications ) is the largest telephone company of Denmark . The company is also active in various European countries, including Germany. In total, the telecommunications company TDC has more than 13 million customers (2005). In Denmark, TDC has a large share of the landline and mobile phone market.
TDC is divided into five subsidiaries : TDC Totalløsninger, TDC Mobile International, TDC Kabel TV, TDC Switzerland , TDC Services. The TDC companies have a total of 14,000 employees in Denmark and 6,000 in the other countries. In 2005 the group had a turnover of 46.6 billion Danish kroner (around 5.8 billion euros).
history
19th century
Kjøbenhavns By- og Hustelegraf was founded in 1879 by the telegraph engineer Severin Lauritzen and the telephone operator Thaulow. The company set up private telephone lines over short distances, for example between an office and a factory. It also provided the telegraph service in Copenhagen , particularly with small telegraph stations across the city communicating with each other by telephone. In 1881 the American The International Bell Telephone Co. established itself in Denmark and opened the first public telephone exchange .
Carl Frederik Tietgen foresaw the great prospects for telephony and worked on getting the telephone network into Danish hands. This was achieved in 1882 when Kjøbenhavns Telefon-Selskab was founded, which took over the two existing telephone companies. The company changed its name in 1894 and was now called Kjøbenhavns TelefonShare -Selskab (KTAS).
Between 1883 and 1884, 57 telephone companies were established in the larger cities of Denmark, of which 32 had fewer than 100 subscribers.
After 1890 it was recognized that telephony had become an important means of communication with great social significance. The Danish parliament decided that this area should be regulated. The law of 1897 established state influence over telephony. The Danish state gave the rights to operate a telephone network in concessions to a number of regional telephone companies.
20th century
In 1900 there were only eleven licensed companies and two others that were allowed to operate their networks but were not allowed to expand.
In the following decades the companies merged. When the concession rights were renewed between 1921 and 1922 there were seven companies left, and after 1947 only three companies: KTAS, Fyns Kommunale Telefonselskab (before 1991 Fyns Telefon A / S) and Jydsk Telefon-Aktieselskab. There were also a number of state telephone companies, including in Sønderjylland , which had only come to Denmark in 1920, and Møn , which belonged to the state postal and telegraph system. The state telephone system was also responsible for the telephone lines between the parts of the country and abroad.
In the period from 1939 to 1942, the Danish state acquired approximately 50% of the shares in the private telephone companies and held shares in Fyns Kommunale Telefonselskab .
In 1987 the postal authority (Post- og Telegrafvæsenet) was dissolved. Telecommunications tasks were transferred to Statens Teletjeneste ( Telecom A / S from 1990 ). The telephone network in Sønderjylland and on Møn was transferred to the newly founded Tele Sønderjylland (from 1990 Tele Sønderjylland A / S ) and KTAS.
At the end of 1990 the holding Tele Danmark A / S was set up, which was 100% state-owned. All existing activities of the Danish state within telecommunications have been summarized here. Takeover offers were made to private shareholders, or they were forced to exchange their shares.
In 1994, the state's stake in the shares was limited to 41%. The new issue of shares on the capital market required for this brought in 19.3 billion Danish kroner (around 2.4 billion euros).
It was not until 1995 that a large national telephone company was formed and it was named Tele Danmark .
In 1996 the fixed line market in Denmark was liberalized and Tele Danmark lost its monopoly again. In 1997 the state sold 42% of its shares to the American telephone company Ameritech . A year later, the last state-owned shares were sold and at the same time Ameritech was taken over by SBC .
21st century
In 2000 Tele Danmark changed its name to TDC . Since 2004 the shares have been sold again by SBC, so that TDC initially no longer had a major shareholder. In November 2005, five international private equity companies offered 90% of the shares in TDC 76 billion kroner (around 10 billion euros).
The minority stake in the Austrian mobile operator one was sold to Orange and the Hungarian investor Mid Europa on June 20, 2007 .
A Danish-speaking call center opened in May 2014 in the Flensburger Holm-Passage with 200 workplaces takes advantage of the locational advantage of the Danish minority in southern Schleswig .
TDC cooperates with Vodafone so that Vodafone customers are registered in the TDC network when they enter Denmark and can take advantage of voice and data roaming, including high-speed data.
Web links
- The company's website (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Annual report of TDC A / S dated December 31, 2007
- ↑ Whoever speaks Danish has a clear advantage. In: Flensburger Tageblatt . May 23, 2014, accessed August 3, 2015 .
- ↑ Vodafone and TDC Group renew strategic partnership agreement for Denmark and Norway. In: Vodafone. Vodafone Plc, January 18, 2017, accessed June 29, 2019 .