telenor

Telenor是挪威的本土電信公司，總部位於奧斯陸附近的福內布。今日的Telenor主要是家國際化的移動通訊公司，在斯堪的納維亞半島、東歐和亞洲的共有12家子機構及公司的動作。不僅如此，它還在眾多斯堪的納維亞半島擁有擴展業務如寬頻和電視節目發行等。

可能提起挪威的telenor公司熟悉的人不多，可是相信一說到Opera瀏覽器，知道的人就多的多了吧——至少筆者就在用。要知道開創Opera瀏覽器並最終開辦Opera公司的人原先就是來自telenor公司的。

最早Telenor是家叫作Televerket的、從1855年便開始運作的國有壟斷公司。到1994年，後來叫作Norwegian Telecom（挪威電信）的股份有限公司建立。到了2000年的12月，公司部分實現私有化並在股票交易所上市。

Telenor研發部門是挪威在信息和傳播技術領域內最大的研究的機構。（怪不得Opera的創意會來自Telenor！）公司持續在GSM標準上下大力進行研究，其員工近半都是在挪威以外的國家工作。

在2005年3月14日Telenor宣布其在巴基斯坦的公司開始運行，並宣稱未來的重點放在新興的亞洲和大洋洲的地區的市場上。

Telenor is the incumbent telco in Norway. The headquarter is located at Fornebu, close to Oslo. Today, Telenor is mostly an international Mobile company with 12 operations in Scandinavia, Eastern Europe and Asia. In addition, it has extensive Broadband and TV-distribution operations in the three Scandinavian countries.

History

Telenor was formerly a state-operated monopoly, and called Televerket that has been in operation since 1855. In 1994, the then Norwegian Telecom was established as a public corporation. In December 2000, the company was partly privatised and listed on the stock exchange.

Due to Norway's small population and topography, Telenor still dominates the market place in Norway. However, competition has at times been intense in the mobile market and ADSL market.

Telenor R&D is Norway's largest research establishment within ICT.

Internationalisation

In the second half of the 1990s, Telenor became involved in mobile operations in a number of countries: Russia (1994), Bangladesh, Greece, Ireland, Germany and Austria (1997), Ukraine (1998), Malaysia (1999), Denmark and Thailand (2000), Hungary (2002), Montenegro (2004), Pakistan (2004). Greece, Ireland and Germany was sold in 1999/2000 and profits were re-invested in the emerging markets.

Approximately half of Telenor's employees work outside Norway.

Telenor holds a prominent position in the Scandinavian Broadband and TV market, both with regard to the number of subscribers and to the extent of coverage.

Interesting tidbits

Telenor Mobil SIM

The Opera web browser was created in 1994 by Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner and Geir Ivarsøy during their tenure at Telenor. Opera Software was established in 1995 after the pair went on to continue development of their browser.

Telenor was among the active telcos in developing the GSM standard and has subsequently reaped the benefits of this through its foray into emerging markets.

Probable strategy

Continue its focus on mobile operations in Scandinavia, Eastern Europe and Asia, become the largest provider of TV and Broadband to customers in Scandinavia, and sell non-core assets outside this scope.

The company started commercial operations in Pakistan on 14 March 2005 and has made an announcement that it shall be focusing on the emerging markets in Asia and Pacific region.