Everything about Tele2 totally explained
Tele2 AB is one of Europe's biggest
telecommunications operators with about 25 million customers in 15 countries. It serves as a
fixed-line telephone operator,
cable television provider,
mobile phone operator,
internet service provider.
Overview
Tele2 started as a telecommunications company in
Sweden in the late
1970s by the company
Industriförvaltnings AB Kinnevik. In 1981, a mobile phone provider called
Comvik started as an alternative mobile phone operator to
Telia. The cable television provider
Kabelvision AB started in 1986. Comvik changed it name to become
Comviq when the company got a
GSM license in 1988 and started operating in 1992.
In 1991, Industriförvaltnings AB Kinnevik started
Tele2 as
Sweden's first ISP and in 1997 with telephone liberalisation in Sweden, Tele2 started to offer international calls.
The three companies of Comviq, Kabelvision, and Tele2 came together as the
Tele2 brand on fixed-line services and
Comviq on mobile services in Sweden in 1997. International growth came in the form of acquisitions in
Estonia,
Latvia,
Russia &
France. Today it serves as a major telephone company in the Nordic and Baltic nations, together as an alternative provider in many others.
Tele2 operates in
Austria,
Croatia,
Estonia,
France,
Germany,
Latvia,
Liechtenstein,
Lithuania,
Luxembourg,
the Netherlands,
Norway,
Poland,
Romania,
Russia,
Sweden,
Switzerland.
Tele2's most recent development has been to realign its geographic footprint towards Eastern Europe and the Nordic region focusing on own infrastructure based operations which provide higher growth options and better margins for the future.
Criticism
During its operation in the
United Kingdom, Tele2 was criticised for using the practice of
telephone slamming (changing consumer's residential phone line over to a new provider without their consent).
Further Information
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