QSC AG was founded in Cologne on 5 August 1999 by Bernd Schlobom and Gerd Eickers as the first German and one of the first European

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internet service provider. The company went public on 19 April 2000 in

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(at the Neuer Market).

Cologne Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western States of Germany, state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the List of cities in Germany by population, fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 m ...

-based QSC AG was a nationwide

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s provider in

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with its own

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network. It supplied

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communication products such as

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s. It was a member of the

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30, Germany's 30 leading public technology companies. Today the company operates under the name q-beyond and offers mainly IT-Consulting services.

External links

Official website q-beyond

References

Foundation history

Company data Frankfurt Stock Exchange

Annual report 2021
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