TDC A/S
TDC A / S ( Tele Danmark Communications ) is the largest telephone company in Denmark. The company is also active in several European countries, including Germany. The minority interest in the Austrian mobile operator one was sold on 20 June 2007 at Orange and the Hungarian investor Mid Europa. Overall, the telecommunications company TDC has more than 13 million customers ( 2005). In Denmark, TDC has a high share of fixed-line and mobile phone market.
TDC is divided into five subsidiaries: TDC Totalløsninger, TDC Mobile International, TDC Cable TV, TDC Switzerland, TDC Services. The companies in the TDC have a total of 14,000 people in Denmark and 6,000 in other countries. 2005, the Group had a turnover of 46.6 billion Danish kroner ( approximately EUR 5.8 billion ).
History
In 1879 Kjøbenhavns By -og Hustelegraf of the Telegrafieingenieur Severin Lauritzen and the telephone operators Th Thaulow was founded. The company built private telephone lines over short distances, for example between an office and a factory. She also offered in København to the telegraph service, especially with small Telegrafiestationen throughout the city, who communicated with each other by phone. 1881, the American Bell Telephone Co. The International established in Denmark and opened the first public telephone.
Carl Frederik Tietgen foresaw the great prospects for telephony and worked to get the telephone network in Danish hands. This was completed in 1882, when the Kjøbenhavns telephone Selskab was established, which took over the two existing telephone companies. The company changed its name in 1894 and was now Kjøbenhavns telephone share - Selskab ( KTAS ).
In the years 1883-1884 57 telephone companies were established in the major cities of Denmark, of which 32 had less than 100 participants.
After 1890 it was recognized that the telephone had become an important communication tool with great social significance. The Danish Parliament decided that this area should be regulated. With the law of 1897, the state influence on the telephony has been set. The Danish government gave the rights to operate a telephone network in concessions to a number of regional telephone companies.
In the following decades, the companies merged. At the renewal of the concession rights in the years 1921 to 1922 only three companies were still seven, and after 1947 left: KTAS, Funen Municipal Telefonselskab ( before 1991 Funen Phone A / S) and Jydsk telephone Aktieselskab. There were also a number of state-owned telephone companies, inter alia in Jutland, which had come to Denmark until 1920, and Moen, who belonged to the state-owned postal and telegraph beings. The state telephone manner was also responsible for telephone lines between the parts of the country and abroad. In the period 1939-1942, the Danish state took over about 50 % of the shares of the private telephone companies and held shares in Funen Municipal Telefonselskab.
In 1987, the postal authority ( Post -og Telegrafvæsenet ) was dissolved. the tasks in the telecommunications went over (from 1990 Telecom A / S) in the Statens Teletjeneste. The telephone network in Southern Jutland on Møn og was the newly founded Tele Jutland transferred (from 1990 Jutland Tele A / S) above KTAS
The end of 1990 the holding company Tele Danmark A / S was launched. which is 100 % owned by the state was. All existing activities of the Danish state within the telecommunication industry have been summarized here. Private shareholders have been submitted bids, or forced to convert their shares.
In 1994, the state share of the shares was limited to 41%. The required new issue of shares in the capital market yielded 19.3 billion Danish kroner ( about € 2.4 billion ).
Only in 1995 a large national telephone company was founded, which was named Tele Danmark.
1996, the market for the fixed network in Denmark was liberalized and Tele Danmark lost its monopoly again. 1997 the state sold 42% of its shares in the American phone company Ameritech. A year later, the last of its shares were sold in state-owned, while Ameritech was acquired by SBC.
In 2000, Tele Danmark changed its name to TDC. Since 2004, the shares were sold by SBC again so that TDC initially had no more major shareholder. In November 2005, offered five international private equity firms for 90 % of the shares of TDC 76 billion kroner ( 10 billion euros ).