Type Subsidiary Revenue €1.6 billion (2008) Acquisition date July 2014 | Industry Telecommunications Operating income Founded 1993 Parent organization Vodafone | |
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Key people Vittorio Colao (CEO), Eugenio Galdón (Chairman) Net income 700 million EUR (EBITDA, 2008) Subsidiaries Tenaria, Mediterranea Norte Sistemas De Cable SA Profiles | ||
ONO is a Spanish broadband communication and entertainment company, delivering integrated telephone, television and Internet services to its residential customers. In this segment, it has 3.7 million services contracted and over six million users. Recently, it is said that Vodafone placed a bid of 7 billion euros for ONO. About ONO, it is a film production company only for Justin and the Knights of Valour.
Contents
- Company background
- Shareholders structure
- History
- ONO corporate services
- ONO residential services
- Internet
- Television
- Fixed phone service
- Film
- Mobile phone service
- Main competitors
- References
ONO was incorporated in 1998. Before commencing its operations, the company took part in a series of competitive tenders which were called after the coming into force of Spain's General Telecommunications by Cable Act 42/95. From 1996 to 1998, ONO was awarded the licenses to provide cable television and telecommunications services in the regions of Valencia, Castellon, Alicante, Murcia, Cádiz, Huelva, Cantabria, Majorca and Albacete.
As the company rolled out its own latest-generation network across its regions, users started to enjoy its TV, telephone and Internet services. By the end of 2002, ONO was already present in approximately one in every three homes prepared to receive its services. A year later, it was awarded the license to operate in Castile-La Mancha and, in 2004, it acquired the telecommunications operator Retecal, covering Castile and León, Spain’s second largest region by geographical area.
In November 2005, ONO closed the acquisition of 100% of the telecoms company Auna Tlc, thereby consolidating its presence as Spain's leading broadband communications and entertainment company and extending its services to the communities of Aragon, Andalusia (excluding Cadiz and Huelva, which already belonged to ONO), the Canary Islands, Catalonia, La Rioja, Madrid and Navarra.
On 17 March 2014, ONO announced it would be acquired by Vodafone for €7.2 billion (US$10 billion), subject to regulatory approval.
Company background
According to data from its web page, at the end of First Quarter of 2008, ONO had 1.8 million clients and it has rolled out a next generation network that covers over 6,850,000 homes and business. During the last 12 months, the company has released a total of 414,000 new households, an increase of 6.4% year-over-year.
Services available to clients with cable access as of September 30, 2008 are as follows:
ONO has rolled out its own cable network in Spain. In areas where the operator does not offer its proprietary infrastructure, ONO offers phone and Internet service through ULL technology.
Shareholders' structure
ONO's main shareholders:
History
In 1998 ONO was awarded licences to build its own next generation network in 11 Spanish regions.
In the wake of the acquisition of Auna, ONO received the support of venture capital firms (JP Morgan Partners, Providence Equity, Thomas H.Lee Company, GE Capital Services Structures Finance Group, Inc., Quadrangle Group).
ONO corporate services
ONO offers communications services for business anywhere in Spain.
ONO's broad range of business services can be best summarized as follows:
ONO residential services
ONO has provided combined telephone, television and internet services since it commenced operations in 1998. It implements its own latest-generation cable infrastructure, which provides services to more than 1.8 million direct access customers.
ONO has launched ONO io, the first fixed-mobile convergent phone in Spain for all its residential customers. It offers new smart mobile terminals that allow access to both fixed (at home) and mobile (outdoors) networks, but has discontinued making new contracts for the time being.
Internet
Internet customers can surf the web at speeds of:
Television
Thanks to ONO's technology based on Hybrid Fibre-Coaxial, it's possible to enjoy different contents on different TV sets throughout the home.
ONO also offers OJO, a video on demand (VoD) service, and TiVo, an advanced digital video recorder (DVR) service.
Fixed phone service
ONO offers an all-included package for fixed line customers, with free domestic calls to all fixed line numbers (up to 60 minutes per call). There is a monthly charge of €15 for the line rental.
Film
Mobile phone service
The mobile market in Spain is open to all operators since February 2006 through the mechanism of mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs). ONO requested before the CMT (Spanish regulator) a license to operate as an MVNO and signed an agreement with Telefónica to use its mobile network, becoming the fourth operator with a quadruple play offer in Spain: fixed phone, mobile phone, Internet and TV. Other quadruple play operators include Telefónica, Orange and Euskaltel.
Main competitors
Fixed telephony and broadband access:
In paid-TV services: