wilhelm.tel

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wilhelm.tel GmbH

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legal form GmbH
founding 1999
Seat Norderstedt
management Jens Seedorff, Theo Weirich
Number of employees 120 (2017)
sales € 67.7 million (2017)
Branch telecommunications
Website www.wilhelm-tel.de

The wilhelm.tel GmbH is a regional provider of telecommunications services headquartered in Norderstedt . The company is owned by the city of Norderstedt via Stadtwerke Norderstedt.

Spread and history

In 2006, 95% of all households in the Norderstedt urban area were already technically accessible.

After the start there, some areas in Hamburg and Henstedt-Ulzburg were expanded in 2004 . The development of further areas in the Norderstedter area is currently in the planning stage, including an extensive expansion of Henstedt-Ulzburg, Kaltenkirchen and Rellingens .

The concept of direct access with fiber optic cables down to the customer's basement ( fiber to the basement ) is to be implemented throughout. In 2006 wilhelm.tel had a total of 75,000 customers and achieved a profit of EUR 2.8 million on sales of EUR 17.5 million. In contrast, there were considerable losses in the initial phase, for example in 2002 in the amount of 3.5 million euros. Between 1999 and 2002 losses totaled 10 million euros. The losses and the costs of building the fiber optic network in the amount of 43 million euros were borne by the municipal utilities.

Wilhelm.tel was the first company in Germany to offer a complete multimedia package ( triple play ). This included telephony, fast internet connections and cable TV (including reception of a local TV station). With the exception of pay-TV programs, digital cable television is not encrypted , so that reception is possible with any DVB-C capable device. Analog cable television was again completely switched off by April 2019.

Since October 2008, wilhelm.tel has been the official partner of the SAGA group of companies in matters of telephony / internet / cable television. Almost all apartments have been connected to the fiber optic network since summer 2009. This enabled wilhelm.tel to expand its availability area enormously, as SAGA-GWG is Hamburg's largest housing company.

The company is a member of the ANGA Association of German Cable Network Operators , the Federal Fiber Optic Connection Association ( Buglas ), and the Deutsche Netzmarketing GmbH ( DNMG ).

Since June 2013, wilhelm.tel has also been offering its offers in Wedel , Wacken , Tangstedt (Stormarn) , Tangstedt (Pinneberg district) , Alveslohe , Kayhude and Itzehoe . A free Wi-Fi network has been installed in the main distribution area in Norderstedt and customer centers in Hamburg since autumn 2013 and made available without time or data limits. This network is soon to be expanded across the board. Access can be made temporarily or permanently.

Wilhelm.tel is a cooperation partner of other regional cable network operators in southern Schleswig-Holstein, for example Ell-tel in Ellerau , GWHtel in Halstenbek , pinnau.com in Pinneberg , SWN in Neumünster , tel.quick in Quickborn , and willy.tel in Hamburg. The provider VSE NET in Saarland and the Stadtwerke von Buchholz in Nordheide are also supplied with the digital TV signal.

In 2018, Wilhelm.tel, together with the operators of the elevated and suburban railways in Hamburg, invested a total of four million euros in order to be able to offer a WLAN connection in the means of transport; in December 2018, 380 of the planned 550 had already been completed. The project, which is known under the name mobyklick , should be able to be used simultaneously by a total of 450,000 different end devices.

Specialty

Wilhelm.tel operates its own fiber optic network , which is laid down to the individual households, so on the " last mile " does not depend on the rental of lines from Deutsche Telekom AG . In addition to Internet access with data rates of up to 1 GBit / s downstream or 200 MBit / s upstream (private customer offers), cable TV and a telephone connection are also offered via the fiber optic network . In the case of connections in the cable network, the acceptance of the cable television signal is a prerequisite for using the telephone and Internet services, but not with the now predominant fiber optic connections.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm.tel - The digital giant of the metropolitan region . In: Hamburger Abendblatt , accessed on December 2, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b Local carrier wilhelm.tel offers connections with 100 Mbit / s. Heise.de, August 1, 2006, accessed on May 26, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated December 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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 / www.rellingen.de
  4. ↑ Fiber optic network: Thanks to wilhelm.tel, Rellingen gets fast internet . In: Hamburger Abendblatt , accessed on March 24, 2014.
  5. ↑ Andreas Burgmayer: False balances: Hallwachs resisting. (No longer available online.) Norderstedter Zeitung, November 13, 2003, archived from the original on September 28, 2007 ; Retrieved May 26, 2013 .
  6. ↑ Questions and Answers. SAGA GWG, accessed on March 2, 2014 .
  7. ↑ deutscheetzmarketing.de
  8. ↑ News at wilhelm.tel. (No longer available online.) Wilhelm.tel, archived from the original on September 29, 2013 ; accessed on May 26, 2013 (section “wilhelm.tel continues to grow - soon also in Wedel!”). 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 / www.wilhelm-tel.de
  9. ↑ Free network without restrictions. MobyKlick, accessed November 9, 2013 .
  10. ↑ wilhelm.tel installs Astro's IP headend . In: Cable! Vision Europe . No. 1 , 2013, ISSN  1867-6650 , p. 18 ( astro-kom.de [PDF; accessed on March 2, 2014]).
  11. ↑ Hamburg: Free Internet in the future also at S-Bahn stops. December 3, 2018, accessed May 16, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Surf for free in Hamburg - WLAN expansion started. April 14, 2016, accessed May 16, 2019 .