Tele2

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Tele2

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legal form Aktiebolag
ISIN SE0005190220
founding 1993
Seat Kista , Sweden
management Allison Kirkby
Number of employees 8379 (2012)
sales 5.2 billion euros
Branch telecommunications
Website www.tele2.com

Tele2 is a Swedish listed telecommunications company that operates other subsidiaries under the Tele2 brand name . In 2012, the company's net sales were almost 43.7 billion Swedish kronor (5.2 billion euros). The EBITDA amounted to around 11 billion Swedish crowns (1.3 billion euros). The company's largest shareholder and voting right holder is the Swedish private equity firm Kinnevik .

Services

  • Telephone calls from the landline network - in 5 countries
  • Internet access - in 4 countries
  • Mobile communications - in 9 countries
  • Cable TV & IP TV - in Sweden , Lithuania and the Netherlands
  • IP telephony / VoIP ( Parlino ) - in 8 countries (discontinued in mid-2007)

Country-specific locations

Germany

Logo until 2007

Since the liberalization of the telecommunications market in 1998, Tele2 has been active in the German telecommunications industry, the German headquarters are in Düsseldorf . The Swedish company has become known as a call-by-call provider. Tele2 now offers the following services in Germany :

  • Cellular tariffs
  • Call-by-call 0 10 13
  • Internet-by-call ( Internet access via dial-in )
  • Preselection
  • Internet via radio (based on UMTS)
  • DSL
  • Complete connection package
  • Information service 11898
  • Cellular-based Internet and landline telephone connection (Web & Fon).

In 2006 Tele2 and QSC founded the network operating company Plusnet GmbH & Co. KG in order to install a joint DSL concentration network infrastructure. By the end of 2007 it was planned to develop 2000 main distributors . Tele2 held 32.5% in Plusnet and QSC 67.5%. Since June 2007, on this basis of Tele2 Komplettanschluss packages without bundled telecom - landline available. On December 23, 2010 it was announced that Tele2 is withdrawing prematurely from the partnership and QSC is taking over the 32.5% of Tele2 for EUR 36.7 million. In return, Tele2 had to pay QSC € 66.2 million, as the agreement concluded between the two companies lasted until the end of 2013.

The German Heart Foundation was an official charity partner of Tele2 for a short time from 2009.

Since June 26, 2013 Tele2 has been offering its own mobile phone tariff (Tele2 Allnet-Flat) in Germany that uses the O 2 network.

Austria

Tele2 has been active on the Austrian market since 1999. Following the takeover of UTA Telekom AG in 2004 and the Internet service provider Silver Server 2011, Tele2 was Austria's largest alternative full-range telecommunications provider until the end of 2017. In November 2017, Tele2 Austria was taken over by Hutchison Drei Austria . The purchase price was EUR 95 million. Until the merger, which took place in the second quarter of 2018, Tele2 was continued as a subsidiary of Drei. As part of a rebranding, the brand disappeared completely in the country.

The product portfolio comprised landline telephony, broadband internet services, mobile communications services and data services for small, medium and large companies as well as for international carrier customers. Tele2 Austria employed a total of around 300 people in the headquarters in Vienna and in the six nationwide regional offices (St. Florian / Upper Austria, Wals / Salzburg, Innsbruck / Tyrol, Villach / Carinthia, Graz / Styria and Dornbirn / Vorarlberg). Tele2 services were in detail:

  • Fixed line and mobile telephony
  • Broadband internet services
  • Voice over IP
  • (International) data services using technologies such as MPLS, VPN, Ethernet and SDH
  • Managed Services: e.g. B. PBXs, teleworker solutions, firewalls, etc.
  • Housing Services: Outsourced server solutions, especially for small and medium-sized businesses

Switzerland

In Switzerland , Tele2 was an independent company from October 1998 to the end of 2009. After the takeover by Sunrise Communications , Tele2 was continued as a brand until 2011.

In 2004 the company was the third largest fixed network provider after Swisscom and Sunrise.

The following services were offered:

  • Telephone calls from the fixed network via ( call-by-call ) or preselection
  • Internet access via dial-up ( dial-up )
  • ADSL internet access
  • Mobile communications (prepaid and contract) on your own city network and via the Sunrise mobile network (national roaming)

Tele2's own cellular network had been in operation since June 2005. It covered the largest Swiss cities (including Zurich , Basel , Geneva , Bern , Lausanne and Winterthur ).

In March 2006, Tele2 Switzerland signed a direct roaming agreement with the network operator Sunrise, which enabled Tele2 customers to use the Sunrise network nationwide. As a result of the change, new SIM cards were required on the one hand, and existing customers had to switch to new tariff models (free calls and SMS among Tele2 customers) on the other. The previous prepaid offer, which ran over the Swisscom Mobile network, was discontinued. On September 29, 2008, Sunrise announced the takeover of Tele2 Switzerland. The Tele2 brand, which had 491,000 customers in Switzerland, was retained for the time being and the employees were taken over. On November 1, 2011, Sunrise introduced the new Tele4U brand .

At the end of August 2011, Tele2 had informed all e-mail customers first by e-mail and then via its website that all e-mail accounts would be switched off on October 3, 2011, as negotiations about the maintenance of the accounts with Tele2 Sweden as the owner of the accounts, were unsuccessful.

Econophone

On July 20, 2005, Tele2 acquired Econophone AG, a provider of telephony and Internet connections as well as web space and webmail services founded in 1997. At that time, Econophone was number 4 in the Swiss fixed line market. Econophone was not integrated into Tele2, but continued as a separate brand, even after the later takeover by Sunrise, and only given up with the switch to digital telephony at the end of 2017.

Liechtenstein

Tele2 was represented in Liechtenstein with its mobile communications brand Tango . In June 2008 it was sold to Belgacom .

Luxembourg

In Luxembourg Tele2 offered the following services:

In June 2008 Tele2 Luxembourg and Liechtenstein were sold to Belgacom .

Latvia

The Latvian subsidiary Tele2 achieved a turnover of 110 million euros in 2013 and a profit of 18.519 million euros.

Lithuania

The Lithuanian subsidiary UAB Tele2 is one of the larger telecommunications companies in Lithuania. In 2013 it achieved sales of EUR 149 million and had 1.85 million customers.

Hungary

The Hungarian subsidiary Tele2 Hungary with 490,000 fixed line customers was sold to HTCC Hungarian Telephone and Cable Corp in July 2007 for 40 million Swedish kronor .

Russia

Tele2 entered the Russian market in 2003 and was sold to VTB in 2013 . In 2014, a cooperation was entered into with Rostelekom in order to establish a new large mobile communications provider on the Russian market. Since then, 55% of the shares in Tele2 Russia have been held by the VTB Group and a consortium of strategic investors and 45% by Rostelekom.

Further outsourcing

In 2007 the Belgian subsidiaries Tele2 Belgium and Versatel Belgium were sold to the Dutch company KPN for EUR 96 million . In addition, the subsidiaries in Denmark , Spain , Italy , France and Portugal are also to be outsourced. With these steps Tele2 would like to concentrate more on the core business.

criticism

Criticism of Tele2 in Germany

The Stiftung Warentest rated Tele2 in a test with 15 Internet providers in 2006 as not recommendable, because 18 ineffective clauses were to be found in the general terms and conditions. Tele2 operated an aggressive advertising policy in 2006 and 2007, which is one of the reasons why Tele2 was criticized by the consumer advice centers in North Rhine-Westphalia and Bavaria because complaints from customers about unsolicited advertising calls increased. In numerous cases, these advertising calls resulted in an undesired change of provider. According to consumer advocates, no other provider attracted such negative attention from advertising calls in 2006 as Tele2. The Düsseldorf Regional Court sentenced Tele2 in two proceedings in mid-2007 and at the end of 2007 for illegal telephone acquisition to a fine totaling 300,000 euros. In a dispute with the Bavarian Consumer Center in autumn 2007, they agreed to a fine of 240,000 euros. Tele2 has not operated telephone marketing since 2008. The terms and conditions and contracts have also been fundamentally revised.

Criticism of Tele2 in Russia

The Russian branch of Tele2 attracted attention in August 2017 when it was looking for customers for an advertising campaign. a. of state flags, pornography, drugs and messages critical of the government also found a ban on showing homosexual acts. In doing so, Tele2 followed the law in force in Russia, which forbids "homosexual propaganda". Critics accuse the group, however, of bowing to the law, which has already been criticized by the European Court of Human Rights. Other corporations such as Apple had prevailed against the law in the past.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heart Foundation on the Tele2 homepage ( Memento from March 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Allnet-Flat in the O2 / E-Plus network. Retrieved April 20, 2017 .
  3. ↑ After Tele2 takeover: Drei starts price war in the fixed network , trend.at, news from November 7, 2017.
  4. ^ Sunrise, media release of September 29, 2008
  5. ↑ Tele2 becomes Tele4U
  6. ↑ Newsletter ( Memento from July 21, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  7. ↑ Tele2 in the Baltic States ( Memento from July 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ About Tele2 Russia. (No longer available online.) Tele2 Russia, archived from the original on September 2, 2016 ; accessed on September 1, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / en.tele2.ru
  9. ↑ Tele2 sells Belgian subsidiary to KPN. Heise online , August 20, 2007, accessed November 23, 2007 .
  10. ↑ Tele2 sells Italian and Spanish fixed line business to Vodafone. Heise online , October 8, 2007, accessed on November 23, 2007 .
  11. ↑ Test Internet provider of Stiftung Warentest , test.de, May 5, 2006
  12. ↑ a b Advertising calls: consumer advocates warn against Tele2 , July 6, 2007
  13. ↑ Consumer advocates accuse Tele2 of unfair telephone advertising , July 6, 2007
  14. ↑ Consumer advocates target Tele2 , July 6, 2007
  15. ↑ File number 38 O 145/06, here to www.heise.de: penalty for Tele2 , July 7, 2007 and additional fine for Tele2, December 21, 2007
  16. ↑ www.heise.de: Unauthorized telephone advertising costs Tele2 240,000 euros , 23 November 2007
  17. ^ Norbert Blech: Russia: Tele2 does not want any "homo propaganda" . In: queer.de . ( queer.de [accessed on August 23, 2017]).
  18. ↑ Kaliningrad passes law on the "Prohibition of Propaganda of Homosexuality" - Quarteera /// Russian Queer in Germany. Retrieved August 23, 2017 .
  19. ↑ SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg Germany: Judgment on "homosexual propaganda" law in Russia: Discriminatory - and scientifically completely unfounded - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Panorama. Retrieved August 23, 2017 .
  20. ↑ Russia: No compensation for gay emojis . In: queer.de . ( queer.de [accessed on August 23, 2017]).