E-Plus
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| Website | www.eplus-gruppe.de | |
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E-Plus was a mobile telecommunications operator in Germany. With more than 25 million subscribers,[2] 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.[3][4][5][6]
Network
First GSM license
The company was awarded Germany's first DCS-1800 (later renamed
The network started operation as a "metropolitan" network, with coverage only in the biggest cities, in 1994. The coverage area was expanded rapidly, but for years the network's image was hampered by the view that its coverage was lacking. As a countermeasure,
E-Plus was the second network in Germany to offer prepaid tariffs to its customers (after T-Mobile's XtraCard) and later introduced
Developments since 2006
In February 2006, after the
E-Plus provides network access to numerous
E-Plus was the first company to introduce i-mode in Germany.
At the end of February 2014, E-Plus and ZTE announced that ZTE would take over Managed Services of E-Plus.[7]
On March 5. 2014, E-Plus started commercial LTE service in Berlin, Leipzig and Nuremberg by using 10 MHz out possible of 20 MHz bandwidth of the 1800 MHz frequency.[8]
On March 12. 2014, E-Plus announced the launch of HD Voice.[9]
On July 1. 2016, LTE was shutdown from the new owner Telefónica Germany.[10]
References
- ^ "Facts & Figures". E-Plus. Archived from the original on 2013-12-31. Retrieved 2013-12-28.
- ^ "E-Plus Group annual report 2013" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-02-09.
- ^ "KPN shareholders approve E-Plus sale to Telefonica".
- ^ "Telefonica Deutschland, E-Plus Deal Gets In-Depth Probe".
- ^ "EU Approves Telefónica's Takeover of E-Plus - WSJ".
- ^ Dimitri Ries. "Telefónica-E-Plus-Fusion - Die Telefónica GmbH fusioniert mit E-Plus" (in German).
- ^ "ZTE Takes Over Managed Services for Germany's E-Plus". cellular-news. 2014-02-26. Retrieved 2014-03-05.
- ^ "E-Plus: Ab sofort LTE für alle Kunden ohne Aufpreis nutzbar". teltarif.de. 2014-03-05. Retrieved 2014-03-05.
- ^ "Brillanter Klang: E-Plus startet HD Voice" (in German). E-Plus Gruppe. 2014-03-12. Archived from the original on 2014-11-01. Retrieved 2014-03-12.
- ^ "E-Plus: LTE von E-Plus: Telefónica schaltet Netz sukzessive ab". teltarif.de. 2016-07-03. Retrieved 2016-01-02.
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