Sunrise Communications AG
The Sunrise Communications AG, headquartered in Zurich, with around three million customers, the second largest telecommunications company in Switzerland. The former subsidiary of the Danish Tele Danmark ( TDC A / S ) is since 28 October 2010, the Luxembourg investment company CVC Capital Partners. It occurs in the market under the name Sunrise on. Under the brand name yallo the company also markets a cheap deal.
Headquartered in March 2010 at the Binzmühlestrasse in Zurich's Oerlikon district. Previously, the company was located in a skyscraper Sunrise Tower. Other sites are located in Bern, Biel, and Renens.
The Carrier Selection Code of Sunrise is 10707th
- 2.1 Development of the mobile network
Service areas
Mobile
Sunrise is with more than 2.1 million mobile customers ( mid-2013 ) is the second largest mobile network operator in Switzerland with a market share of 21.4 % in the Swiss mobile market. Here are prepaid customers only if they have generated in the last three months sales ( active customers ). The published by Sunrise customer number does not include wholesale customers respectively customers the provider Cablecom mobile, Lebara Mobile, Salut! -Mobile (Aldi), TalkTalk Mobile and 20 minutes Mobile (which only the Sunrise mobile network use ) and in & phone, which the network of Sunrise are able to share, thanks to a national roaming agreement. Also M2M SIM cards will not be accepted at Sunrise in the number of customers.
The company has completed 360 roaming agreements in over 180 countries and is a founding member of today no longer active Starmap Mobile Alliance.
Landline
Sunrise has its own fiber optic network with more than 10,000 kilometers in length and more than 200 points of presence. The company has opened up around 80% of house connections with their own infrastructure since the liberalization of the last mile. For the fixed network Sunrise possessed mid-2013 about 457'000 customers. Here only active customers are counted, which have generated in the past month telephone traffic.
Internet and data communication
Sunrise offers access to Wi-Fi hotspots, where mainly the networks used by other companies such as Monzoon or TPN. The end of 2009 some 600 hotspots were established. Mid-2013 was one of Sunrise 361,000 Internet customers. The number of ADSL connections listed in Switzerland generally a strong upward trend. The availability of broadband is over 98 % of fixed lines. Sunrise uses ADSL2 technology, which allows higher speeds than ADSL.
TV
With DesktopTV Sunrise offers its ADSL customers an opportunity to receive 35 TV channels available. To view a Flash plug-in is used. Since January 2012, Sunrise also offers an IPTV product.
Company History
Created Sunrise is the merger of DiAx and the then sunrise in 2001. DiAx was founded in 1997, took in December 1998 to operate on and belonged to 40% of the U.S. SBC Communications to 50 % Swiss energy suppliers and to 10% of West German RWE AG. At that time the sunrise was mainly the BT Group and the Danish Tele Danmark ( TDC A / S), with Migros and the Swiss Federal Railways as a junior partner. In 2000, the two companies wanted to avoid that for the UMTS licenses billion amounts to be paid. The merger of DiAx and sunrise, there were only four candidates for the four advertised UMTS licenses. Following the merger agreement was reached on the new brand name sunrise and the newly formed company TDC Switzerland AG became the 100 % subsidiary of TDC A / S.
End of January 2006 took over the Nordic Telephone Company ( NTC) 88.2 % of the shares of TDC A / S, the parent company of Sunrise. Since Oct. 4, 2007, the name of the company Sunrise Communications AG and the brand name is Sunrise is a priority. As a new logo in the font Frutiger, which is intended to underline the Swiss anchoring the company serves the signature " Sunrise ". Furthermore, is their new motto " Courageous. Vital. Ehrlich. Simple. ".
On 29 September 2008 Sunrise announced the takeover of rival Tele2 Switzerland. Tele2, which had 491'000 customers, initially remained as a brand exist, the employees were taken. However, ran by November 1, 2011, the license rights to the name " Tele2 " from the appearance was changed to " Tele4U ".
In November 2009, France Telecom and TDC announced its intention to merge their Swiss subsidiaries, Orange and Sunrise Communications. The new company France Telecom and TDC should hold 75 % of 25%. The new entity would have combined with a market share of around 38% as mobile communications and of around 13% in broadband connections. On 22 April 2010, the Competition Commission (Comco ) prohibited the merger. The reason the dominant position in the mobile market was called to the merged entity together with Swisscom. In addition, the most active in the market network operators would be eliminated from the market.
In September 2010, TDC A / S and the Luxembourg private equity firm CVC Capital Partners announced that they have entered into an agreement for the purchase of Sunrise by CVC for 3.3 billion francs. The transaction was completed after approval by the Swiss competition and regulatory authorities on October 28, 2010.
Logo to October 4, 2007
Logo in corporate colors since October 4, 2007
Development of the cellular network
On 20 April 1998, the then- DiAx AG was awarded the concession for the operation of a dual-band mobile network (GSM 900 and 1800) in Switzerland. After an intensive development phase the mobile network could be taken in December 1998. Initially, however, the net was available along highways and in urban areas. The continuous expansion of the mobile network in rural regions, the network operator soon reached a better coverage, v. a also by the fact that the network of Swiss Federal Railways could be used as a backbone.
As the first mobile operator in Switzerland, the company launched 2000 GPRS services on the market in December. As the world's first provider DiAx turned this service free for prepaid cards. Shortly after it was announced the same month that DiAx and the then sunrise merge, the company auctioned dSpeed as one of the four nationwide UMTS licenses.
Sunrise started on 1 December 2005 with a hybrid network based on GPRS, EDGE and UMTS base with data transfer rates up to 384 Kbit / s Since the end of 2006, the entire GSM network is nationwide EDGE -enabled. Today, the Sunrise mobile network reached 99.8 % of the Swiss population.
The entire UMTS network is HSDPA - capable since October 2007; since 2012, it offers thanks to the expansion with HSPA coverage a data transfer rate of up to 42 Mbit / s In May 2012, Sunrise started with an extensive expansion of the mobile network to be expanded in the existing GSM mobile stations with UMTS900. Upon completion of the expansion, the UMTS network to cover around 96 % of the population.
Sunrise plans to launch by the end of 2012 with LTE pilot phase. As of 2013, LTE will be expanded over a large area. According to the mobile operator is suitable for the supply of rural areas, the frequency band 800 MHz; in large metropolitan areas to ensure the necessary capacity the auctioned frequencies in the 2600 MHz band. Next are also in the frequency band 1800 MHz LTE services can be provided.