Thyssen Telecom

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Thyssen Telecom , based in Düsseldorf, was a telecommunications company.

The main shareholders included the Sal. Oppenheim (Cologne), Commerzbank , Westdeutsche Landesbank , a consortium led by WGZ-Bank , ING Groep (Amsterdam) and Part'Com SA (Paris). The holdings are between 3 and 11 percent and totaled 27.3 percent. At the beginning of the 1990s, the parent company Thyssen , based in Duisburg , was the ninth largest industrial company in Germany and achieved sales of DM 35.8 billion (1992) and an annual profit of DM 350 million.

In the 1990s, the company expanded rapidly under Hans-Peter Kohlhammer. The T-Net company for network services with the participation of Thyssen Telecom, E-Plus with the participation of BellSouth , the bank Sal. Oppenheim , IS Internet Services (Hamburg), Plusnet company for network services (Düsseldorf) were bought and run as a subsidiary ), Plusnet AG (Switzerland), Infomedia, Spaceline Communication Services. After a change in strategy at the parent company ThyssenKrupp and changing framework conditions, business areas were parted with: Thyssen Telecom acquired its 30.1 percent stake in E-Plus for DM 2.26 billion to the joint telephone company of Veba and RWE, Otelo Communication, sold. The fixed line company Plusnet Gesellschaft für Netzwerk Services was sold in 1998. Esprit Telecom paid around DM 315 million for the takeover.

Thyssen Telecom applied unsuccessfully to take over 49.8 percent of the DBKom rail subsidiary ; In July 1996, CNI ( Mannesmann AG , Deutsche Bank AG , Unisource, etc.) acquired this package for almost three billion marks, which became known under the name Arcor.

Thyssen Telecom had around 50 major customers in the corporate network sector and was aiming to turn over eight billion marks by 2003 and to be the market leader in the market segment for private customers with universal services.

As early as the mid-1990s, Thyssen Telecom and the Munich cable operator KMS offered high-speed Internet access via the cable network , which could deliver a data rate of up to 550 kBit / s and cost a flat rate of 85 marks per month. Thyssen Telecom had a cooperation with the US company BellSouth .

See also: Mannesmann Eurokom

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans-Peter Kohlhammer: The specialist for difficult cases. Handelsblatt, May 10, 2001, accessed on January 25, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Partner search for new subsidiary Thyssen Telecom Thyssen / Handelsunion sets the course for telecom business. (No longer available online.) January 13, 1995, archived from the original on January 25, 2017 ; Retrieved January 25, 2017 . 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.  
3. ↑ THYSSEN-KRUPP: New slimming diet. Focus, September 14, 1998, accessed January 25, 2017 . 
4. ↑ "Earned a Billion Amount". Spiegel, September 1, 1997, accessed January 25, 2017 . 
5. ↑ RWE confirms negotiations with Thyssen to acquire the E-Plus shares / Viag builds on mobile communications. Berliner Zeitung, December 3, 1996, accessed on January 25, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Thyssen sells Plusnet to the British. Tagesspiegel, May 11, 1998, accessed January 25, 2017 . 
7. ↑ RWE confirms negotiations with Thyssen to acquire the E-Plus shares / Viag builds on mobile communications. Berliner Zeitung, December 3, 1996, accessed on January 25, 2017 .