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EPlus
E-Plus was a mobile telecommunications operator in Germany. With more than 25 million subscribers, E-Plus was the third largest mobile operator in Germany, until the takeover from Telefónica Germany in October, 2014. Ownership E-Plus was owned by Dutch telecommunications operator KPN since 2002. In July 2013, Telefónica Germany announced a planned takeover. The deal was approved by KPN shareholders in October 2013. The merger was delayed because of concerns by the European Commission on reduced competition in the German mobile market. In July 2014, the European Commission approved the merger, conditional on E-Plus giving up some frequencies and network capacity. Network First GSM license The company was awarded Germany's first DCS-1800 (later renamed GSM-1800, also known as E-Netz ( de; ''lit. E-Network'') in Germany) license in 1993. One term of the licence was that no further Mobile network operator could be started within 3 years of the start of the network. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Global System For Mobile Communications
The Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) is a standard developed by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) to describe the protocols for second-generation ( 2G) digital cellular networks used by mobile devices such as mobile phones and tablets. GSM is also a trade mark owned by the GSM Association. GSM may also refer to the Full Rate voice codec. It was first implemented in Finland in December 1991. By the mid-2010s, it became a global standard for mobile communications achieving over 90% market share, and operating in over 193 countries and territories. 2G networks developed as a replacement for first generation ( 1G) analog cellular networks. The GSM standard originally described a digital, circuit-switched network optimized for full duplex voice telephony. This expanded over time to include data communications, first by circuit-switched transport, then by packet data transport via General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), and Enhanced Data Rates for G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blau Mobilfunk
The brand blau ''(previously: blau Mobilfunk GmbH)'', is a mobile network brand owned by Telefonica Germany. The key brands are the discount tariff "blau.de" for calls within Germany and "blauworld" for calls outside Germany. History The company was founded by three entrepreneurs, Martin Ostermayer, Thorsten Rehling and Dirk Freise in 2005. The money came from the sale of the website ''handy.de'' to Bertelsmann. A company for the distribution of mobile phone service with E-Plus was the base to establish Blau Mobilfunk GmbH as the first independent mobile phone discounter. Blau Mobilfunk took over the mobile virtual network operator in the discount sector, debitel-light, in November 2006. Debitel received a minority share of the Blau Mobilfunk GmbH as compensation. 2007 blau.de already had 600,000 customers. Blau Mobilfunk was taken over by the Dutch E-Plus-mother KPN in April 2008. The key brands blau.de and blauworld were continued. Blau.de also offered an allnet flat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
