TeliaSonera AB is the dominant telephone company and mobile network operator in Sweden and Finland, and is also active in other countries in Northern, Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Spain, with a total (2007) of 106 million mobile customers. It is headquartered in Stockholm and its stocks are traded on the Stockholm Stock Exchange and on the Helsinki Stock Exchange.
Sonofon was set up in 1991 and is now one of the largest mobile telcos in Denmark with a headcount of about 1,400. Sonofon is owned by Telenor, one of the biggest telcos in the Nordic countries with mobile operations in 12 countries worldwide and a strong Nordic-based business in Norway, Sweden and Denmark. Sonofon and Cybercity together with CBB and Tele2 Danmark constitute Telenor Group telecoms activities in Denmark. Together we have 1,7 million mobile customers and 250.000 DSL customers. Cybercity is nowadays one of Denmark’s largest broadband providers. Together we are setting the agenda for the telecoms market of the future with strong positions in mobility and broadband.
TDC is the leading provider of communications solutions in Denmark and a strong player in the Nordic business market. We have developed from a traditional provider of landline and mobile services into a provider of modern communications solutions. In all key markets in Denmark, we will continue to be the clear front-runner, and it is our goal to be the most efficient telecom operator in the Nordic region, providing the best coherent services on all terminals and networks, anytime, anywhere.
Being part of the world's largest mobile network allows us to offer world-class products and services to Czech mobile customers, with the benefit of global scale and support of a worldwide team! So keep logging on to find out more great consumer and business news from Vodafone.
Telefónica O2 Czech Republic is the largest telecommunications company in the Czech Republic. It operates the Czech fixed-line network, the only Czech CDMA network, one of the three Czech GSM networks and one of the three Czech UMTS networks. Previously two companies, fixed-line operator Český Telecom and mobile operator Eurotel, it was acquired by the Spanish company Telefónica in 2005 and merged into a single legal entity and given its present name on 1 July 2006. The company is run by Telefónica's European mobile business Telefónica O2 Europe plc. and the CEO of the Czech unit is Salvador Anglada Gonzalez.
T-Mobile was previously known as Paegas in the Czech Republic. T-Mobile Czech Republic a.s. has been operating in the Czech market since 1996. As of 30 June 2006, 4.734 million customers were using T-Mobile services. T-Mobile Czech Republic a.s. operates a public mobile communications network on the GSM standard in the 900 and 1800 MHz bands and is also authorized to operate a UMTS network. T-Mobile was the first operator in the Czech Republic to launch this third-generation technology on 19 October 2005 under the name Internet 4G.
Tomato is a brand in Croatian mobile communications market owned by VIPnet. It has its own numeration and it is a prepaid product. It functions as a mobile virtual network operator. It is defined as type of GSM service that is characterized by tomato SIM card, tomato voucher and tomato user account. It was launched in June 2006 and advertised as a cheap network, coinciding with the deployment of the Tele2 network which had the same marketing strategy.
We sell attractively priced, easyto-use communication solutions. Tele2 strives to offer its customers the best price at all times. Our most important service is mobile telephony complemented by broadband. Ever since Tele2 was founded in 1993, we have been tough challengers to incumbents and other established providers. Tele2 is currently in a focus period, which means we are concentrating on markets and products offering the most potential for profitable growth.
VIPnet is the first private mobile network operator in Croatia. It has been operating a GSM network since 1999. Since its arrival, VIPnet has broken the monopoly of CRONET (since renamed to T-Mobile Hrvatska, and owned by Hrvatski Telekom) and introduced many new services unknown before - SMS, prepaid and others.
T-Mobile entered the Croatian market in October 1999 when Deutsche Telekom (DT) initially acquired a 35 percent interest in Hrvatski telekom, including its cell phone service provider Cronet. Two years later, DT signed an agreement with the Croatian government to acquire the additional 16 percent needed for a majority holding. In January 2003, Hrvatski Telekom assembled all of its mobile activities under a single brand HTmobile. Finally, in October 2004, HTmobile became T-Mobile Hrvatska, or T-Mobile Croatia, thus joining the global T-Mobile family also by name.
