T-Mobile Austria

T-Mobile Austria GmbH
Industry Wireless telecommunications
Founded 1996 (1996)
Headquarters Vienna, Austria
Area served
 Austria
Key people
 Andreas Bierwirth (CEO)
Products Mobile telephony
Wireless broadband
Revenue €900 million (2017)[1]
€110 million (2017)[1]
Number of employees
 1306 FTE (2017)[2]
Parent Deutsche Telekom
Website www.t-mobile.at

T-Mobile Austria GmbH is the second largest mobile phone company in Austria. It is wholly owned by Deutsche Telekom. As of 2017, it has 5.7 million customers.[1]

History

T-Mobile Austria headquarters in Vienna

The company was founded as max.mobil in 1996 by the Ö-Call consortium. In 2000, the company was bought by Deutsche Telekom. In 2002, max.mobil was renamed to T-Mobile Austria.

tele.ring acquisition

In 2005, T-Mobile Austria acquired mobile provider tele.ring from its parent company Western Wireless Corporation for 1.3 billion euros.[3]

UPC Austria acquisition

In December 2017, T-Mobile Austria announced it would acquire cable provider UPC Austria from its parent company Liberty Global for 1.9 billion euros.[4] The acquisition was approved by the European Commission on 10 July 2018.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Helmut Spudich (February 22, 2018). "Jahrespressekonferenz 2018: T-Mobile Austria schließt 2017 mit solidem Wachstum ab" [Annual Press Conference 2018: T-Mobile Austria closes 2017 with solid growth] (in German). T-Mobile Austria.
  2. ↑ "T-MOBILE AUSTRIA NACHHALTIGKEITSBERICHT 2017" [T-MOBILE AUSTRIA SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 2017] (in German). T-Mobile Austria.
  3. ↑ "T-Mobile gets tele.ring". TeleGeography. 11 August 2005.
  4. ↑ "Liberty Global to sell UPC Austria to T-Mobile". TeleGeography. 22 December 2017.
  5. ↑ "EC greenlights T-Mobile acquisition of UPC Austria". Telecompaper. 10 July 2018.
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