Wind Telecomunicazioni
| Wind Telecomunicazioni SpA
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| legal form | Società per Azioni |
| founding | 1997 |
| resolution | December 31, 2016 |
| Reason for dissolution | Merger with the Wind Tre SPA |
| Seat | Rome , Italy |
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| Number of employees | 6,814 (2015) |
| sales | 4.43 billion EUR (2015) |
| Branch | telecommunications |
| Website | www.wind.it |
Wind Telecomunicazioni ( proper spelling : WIND ) was an Italian telecommunications company based in Rome . Wind offered landline , cellular , internet and cable television over IPTV . Shortly before the merger, Wind Telecomunicazioni had around 21.3 million mobile customers and 2.8 million fixed-line customers. On December 31, 2016, the company merged with H3G to form Wind Tre , with Wind remaining the brand.
In the fixed-line telephony and broadband internet sectors, Infostrada was used as the brand for individuals and small businesses, while Wind was used for medium and large businesses.
history
In December 1997, Wind Telecomunicazioni was founded by the Italian energy supplier ENEL (51 percent) and 49 percent by France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom . In December 1998 landline telephony was offered to companies. In 1999 mobile services, Internet services and the inwind portal were added. At the end of 1999, Wind Telecomunicazioni had over two million customers.
In July 2000, Deutsche Telekom sold 18.9 percent to France Telecom and 5.6 percent to Enel . In October 2000, Infostrada was taken over. Afterwards ENEL held 73.4 percent and France Telecom 26.6 percent of the shares. In January 2001, Wind received one of five UMTS licenses in Italy.
In March 2003 ENEL took over the remaining 26.6 percent of the shares from France Telecom and thus became the sole shareholder.
In mid-2003, Wind Telecomunicazioni already had over 30 million customers in the fixed-line, mobile and Internet sectors. In 2004 Delta SpA , an Italian system provider, was taken over.
In June 2003, through an agreement with NTT DoCoMo , Wind became the exclusive i-mode provider for four years. Wind was also the main sponsor of the Italian first division club AS Roma .
In March 2005 the Italian energy supplier ENEL announced that it wanted to sell 62.7 percent of Wind Telecomunicazioni to Weather Investments for 3 billion euros. The takeover was completed on August 11, 2005.
In February 2006, another 6.3 percent of Enel was transferred to Weather Investments. At the end of November 2006, the remaining 26.1 percent was transferred from Enel to Weather Investments for 2 billion euros.
Weather Investments owned 50 percent plus one share in Orascom Telecom Holding (OTH) owned by the Egyptian businessman Naguib Sawiris . In 2010 he sold Wind Telecomunicazioni to the Russian Vimpelcom .
On August 6, 2015 the merger between H3G and Wind Telecomunicazioni was announced, which was carried out on December 31, 2016.
Network infrastructure
- The GSM network covered 99.9% with 14,845 base stations
- The UMTS network covered 98.50% of the population with 13,855 base stations, 97% with HSPA : up to 21 Mbit / s and 64.8% with HSPA + : up to 42 Mbit / s.
- In the LTE network, around 2,202 base stations covered 58%.
- Nokia, Ericsson and Huawei as suppliers.
- Over 497 roaming partners in 219 countries, 8 of them with 4G / LTE .
- Direct access to ADSL coverage (ULL and Virtual ULL) 1,520 locations.
- Wind operated an ADSL network approx. 22,300 km long and a fiber optic network approx. 5,091 km long.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c windgroup.it. (pdf) Annual Report 2015. Wind Telecomunicazioni SpA, December 31, 2015, accessed on May 19, 2016 .
- ↑ http://www.windgroup.it/eng/investitori/kpis.phtml
- ↑ Italy's mobile operator Wind Tre starts after the merger
- ↑ a b http://www.windgroup.it/eng/azienda/storia.phtml
- ↑ La Storia Official Website - La Storia ( Memento of January 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
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