Salt Mobile SA
Salt Mobile SA (officially stylized as Salt.) is a Swiss telecommunications provider focusing on mobile telephony and fiber-optic land-line services. It operates the third-largest mobile network in the country, with 17% market share.
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| Type | Limited company (Societé Anonyme) |
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| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Founded | June 1999 |
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Key people | Pascal Grieder CEO (since September 1, 2018)[1] |
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| Revenue | CHF 971 million (2018) [2] |
Number of employees | 684 (2018)[3] |
| Website | Official website |
| Primary ASN | 15796 |
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| Traffic Levels | 300–500 Gbps[4] |
Salt began as the Swiss subsidiary of Orange S.A. It was spun off in 2012, and continued to license and operate under the Orange name until 2015, when the Salt brand was launched.
Failed merger with Sunrise
The merger with the Sunrise Communications AG was prohibited by the Swiss competition authority Weko in April 2010.[5] Later, in 2012, it was sold to the British investment company, Apax Partners.[6]
References
- Salt names Pascal Grieder as new CEO salt.ch, August 27, 2018, accessed February 27, 2020.
- Salt – 2018 Full Year Results salt.ch, March 13, 2019, accessed February 27, 2020.
- Salt steigert Halbjahresgewinn deutlich suedostschweiz.ch, August 29, 2018, accessed February 27, 2020.
- "PeeringDB: Salt Mobile".
- "Orange / Sunrise: No merger - Weko prohibits merger". handelszeitung.ch. Archived from the original on February 21, 2016.
- "Weko genehmigt Verkauf von Orange Schweiz an Apax | NZZ". Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in German).
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