Salt Mobile SA (formerly Orange Switzerland) is a Swiss telecommunications company focusing on mobile telephony and fiber-optic fixed-line telephony services.[5]

Salt Mobile SA
FormerlyOrange Communications SA/AG (1999-2015)
Salt SA/AG (2015)
Company typePrivate
IndustryTelecommunications
FoundedJune 1999; 25 years ago (1999-06) in Renens, Switzerland
FounderOrange
Headquarters,
Switzerland
Area served
Switzerland
Key people
Max Nunziata (CEO since June 1, 2023)[1]
Products
RevenueCHF 1.073 million (2022) [2]
CHF 971 million (2022)[3]
CHF 896 million (2022)[3]
Number of employees
> 1,000 (2022)[3]
ParentNJJ Holding
ASN
Traffic Levels1-5 Tbps[4]
Websitesalt.ch

It operates the third-largest mobile network in Switzerland, with 17% market share.

History

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Former company logo (1999–2015)

Salt was founded in 1999 as the Swiss subsidiary of Orange, and began offering its telecommunications services in mid-1999. The merger with Sunrise was prohibited by the Swiss competition authority WEKO in April 2010.[6] Later, in 2012, it was sold to the British investment company, Apax Partners.[7] It continued to license and operate under the Orange name until 2015, when the company was sold by Apax Partners to NJJ Holding of Xavier Niel and the Salt brand was launched.[8]

References

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  1. ^ Salt-Chef tritt ab – sein Nachfolger ist bestimmt srf.ch, February 24, 2023, accessed March 26, 2023.
  2. ^ Salt – 2018 Full Year Results salt.ch, March 13, 2019, accessed February 27, 2020.
  3. ^ a b c Full Year Results 2022 salt.ch, March 24, 2023, accessed March 26, 2023.
  4. ^ "PeeringDB: Salt Mobile".
  5. ^ "We used to be Orange. We are now called Salt". Salt Mobile. Retrieved July 24, 2019.
  6. ^ "Orange / Sunrise: No merger - Weko prohibits merger". handelszeitung.ch. Retrieved June 21, 2012.
  7. ^ "Weko genehmigt Verkauf von Orange Schweiz an Apax | NZZ". Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in German). Retrieved June 21, 2012.
  8. ^ Adem Thomson, Arash Massoudi. "Xavier Niel buys Orange Switzerland for €2.3bn". Retrieved November 30, 2016.
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