Hellas Online was one of the leading

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service providers based in

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. Founded in 1993, Hellas Online (hol) was one of the first

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service providers in Greece offering public dial-up Internet access. It evolved from an

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to a fixed-line telecommunications services provider offering a broad range of retail, business and wholesale services. Since 2006 it became a member of the

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Holdings group. Before its dissolution, following its merger, with Vodafone in 2014, it had 531,563 LLU subscribers.

History

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metropolitan area. The dial-up service was then expanded to the rest of Greece using low-toll telephone numbers. In 2006 it was acquired by

and expanded its services to include broadband

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and SHDSL services. In 2007 it acquired 100% of Attica Telecom, the largest provider of fiber-optic services in the city of Athens and in June of the same year established a strategic partnership with

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. In June 2008, Hellas Online merged with Unibrain, a company listed on the Athens Stock Exchange, and became enlisted under the name Hellas Online (HOL).

Network

Hellas Online owns and operates a fibre optic network of approximately 3,500 kilometres (November, 2008). Its core backbone network is the second largest network in Greece after that of

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, the incumbent operator. Through its points of presence (PoPs) consisting of physical co-location in unbundled local loops (LLUs) Hellas Online offers extensive population coverage in the metropolitan areas of the two largest cities in Greece, Athens (over 80%) and Thessaloniki (over 70%), and significant population coverage in the rest of Greece. Hellas Online's extensive proprietary fibre optic network connects the three major Greek cities of

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, and covers significant parts of the most densely populated areas of Greece. Hellas Online's network provides high-capacity connection between its data centres and sites, thus allowing Hellas Online to backhaul high bandwidth cost-effectively to its unbundled local loops, without having to lease capacity from

, while in certain cases, enabling Hellas Online to lease its own spare capacity to other Greek or international telecommunications operators.

Services

Hellas Online offers domestic and corporate clients, a complete range of broadband products, comprising internet services, fixed-telephony services, and a combination of the two. In 2009, Hellas launched an IPTV service, featuring access to free-to-air channels, news, information, music, children's and sports drawn from around the world and HD content.

External links

Hellas Online

References

{{reflist Internet service providers of Greece Companies listed on the Athens Exchange Companies established in 1993 Greek brands