TELES

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• Sigram Schindler, CEO
• Walter L. Rust, Chairman of the Board

TELES AG information technologies with its headquarters in Berlin is a German company that develops and markets information technology.

History

The company was founded in 1983 by Sigram Schindler in Berlin as " TELES GmbH" in close cooperation with the Technical University of Berlin. Schindler represented as a lecturer the Department of Telecommunications at the Technical University of Berlin until 1998. 1997 chose the Manager Magazin Schindler to "High -Tech Manager of the Year 1997". In 1999, TELES bought the Apple computer retail chain Gravis, the largest at this time Mac computer salesman. As early as 2001 but it was rejected again.

2004 sued Teles with its VoIP patents, among others Cisco, AVM GmbH, 1 & 1, freenet AG, " Quintum Technologies, Inc. " and " IP Telecom GmbH". The procedures are still partially open and wait inter alia, the annulment brought by Cisco and Quintum.

A subsidiary of Teles AG, STRATO AG, 2005 was sold to the " freenet AG ". Then the action against Freenet was dropped.

2008 80 percent of the " TWBI GmbH" and thus of the " Teles Wirelesse Broadband Internet " were sold to the " Mountain Super Angel AG ". The Teles AG retained a twenty percent share. Thus, the Teles AG of their product Sky DSL ( Satellite Internet ) has disconnected.