Tele2 AB

Tele2 AB is one of Europe's biggest telecommunications operators, with about 24 million customers in 11 countries. It serves as a fixed-line telephone operator, cable television provider, mobile phone operator and internet service provider. Tele2 started as a telecommunications company in Sweden in the late 1970s by the company Industriförvaltnings AB Kinnevik. In 1981, a mobile phone provider called Comvik started as an alternative mobile phone ... more

Tele2 AB is one of Europe's biggest telecommunications operators, with about 24 million customers in 11 countries. It serves as a fixed-line telephone operator, cable television provider, mobile phone operator and internet service provider. Tele2 started as a telecommunications company in Sweden in the late 1970s by the company Industriförvaltnings AB Kinnevik. In 1981, a mobile phone provider called Comvik started as an alternative mobile phone operator to Telia. The cable television provider Kabelvision AB started in 1986. Comvik changed it name to become Comviq when the company got a GSM license in 1988 and started operating in 1992. In 1991, Sweden's first commercial ISP was started with the Swedish IP Network (SWIPnet, AS1257) by Industriförvaltnings AB Kinnevik, later known as Tele2, and in 1997 with telephone liberalisation in Sweden, Tele2 started to offer international calls. The three companies of Comviq, Kabelvision, and Tele2 came together as the Tele2 brand on fixed-line... less