Retevisión
Retevisiónwas aSpanishtelecommunications company; of which a portion of it continues to exist asCellnex Telecom,which was spun off fromAbertisin 2015.
History
[edit]Retevisión was founded in 1989 as apublic company,a division of the national public broadcasterRadiotelevisión Española(RTVE). Its original mission was to provide transmission facilities for television and radio signals throughout Spain.
In 1996, theFirst Aznar governmentof thePeople's Partydecided to liberalise the Spanish telecommunications market, and a license was granted to Retevisión.
In 1997, it was decided to move the company headquarters fromMadridtoBarcelona.That same year Retevisión was acquired byTelecom Italiaand the Spanish electricity utilitiesEndesaandUnion Fenosa.
The company was operating without its own landline network, and users ofTelefónicathat were Retevision subscribers needed to prepend the prefix 050, which was later replaced by 1050, to the number in order to route calls to Retevisión.
At first, customers could only call other provinces with Retevisión. With the liberalisation of thelocal loopin September 1998, Retevisión customers could make local calls.
That same year, Retevisión bought two pioneering Spanishinternet service providersServicom andRedesTB,and launched their own ISP under the brandiddeo.
In June 1998 the company obtained Spain's third license formobile telephony(afterMovistarandAirtel Móviles), and began operations in 1999 under the brand nameAmenathrough its subsidiaryRetevisión Móvil.
Throughout 1999 it also launched data services over IP for enterprises (VPNnetworking sites), and direct voice and data by radio link, although the latter services had little success.
In Summer 2000, iddeo launchedADSLservices for businesses.
In theBasque Country,Euskaltelfrom its launch in 1995 retained its distribution exclusivity versus Retevisión therefore fixed telephony and the transmission of radio and television signals was performed by Euskaltel.
The brand Retevisión as a telephony operator was abandoned in 2002 in favour of the new name Auna, a merger between Retevisión and the cable operatorAunaCable(both companies being part ofGrupo Auna). In 2005, the cable television, fixed telephony and ISP portions of Auna were absorbed by the operatorONO.In 2006,France Télécomacquired the mobile telephony operations of Amena, which led to the creation ofOrange Españaon 1 August that same year.[1][2]
Retevisión's remaining audiovisual-related portfolio was then sold by Grupo Auna to Abertis in 2003, which subsequently spun off that particular business into a new company called Cellnex Telecom in 2015.
References
[edit]- ^Muñoz, Ramón (2006-05-31)."France Télécom invertirá 200 millones en unificar sus marcas".El País(in Spanish).ISSN1134-6582.Retrieved2022-10-17.
- ^González, Alejandro Nieto (2006-06-01)."Amena y Wanadoo serán Orange".El Blog Salmón(in Spanish).Retrieved2022-10-17.
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