WIND Hellas
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| Privately held company | |
| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Predecessor | STET Hellas, TIM Hellas |
| Founded | Athens, Greece July 28, 1992 as STET Hellas Telecommunications S.A. |
| Headquarters | Athens, Greece |
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Key people
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Nassos Zarkalis (Chairman & CEO) Nicolas Costaras (CIO) |
| Products |
Mobile Telephony Fixedline telephony Broadband internet |
| Services |
GSM GPRS UMTS HSPA POTS DSL |
| Owner | Golden Tree Asset Management LP (25%) |
| Website | www.wind.gr |
WIND Hellas, formerly STET Hellas, is an integrated telecommunications provider with headquarters in Athens, Greece. WIND is the 3rd largest mobile operator in Greece (after Cosmote and Vodafone) with more than 4.4 million active subscribers (September 2010).
STET Hellas originated in 1992 with the establishment of TELESTET, a subsidiary of the Italian company STET, now Telecom Italia. On September 30, 1992 the Greek Ministry of Transport and Communications issued a license to STET to create a national mobile telephony services network (GSM). The company invested the sum of 30 billion drachmas (about 88 million Euros) to create the network. This constituted one of the biggest investments in Greece since the end of the Second World War. Commercial operation started on June 29, 1993 when the first call from a mobile phone took place in the country.
In 1998 TELESTET was the first Greek mobile telephony company to be listed in international stock markets, the NASDAQ in New York City and the .
From 23 September 1999 TELESTET operated Iridium, the first mobile-telephony dedicated satellite in Greece.
In June 2001, TELESTET was the first telecommunications company in Greece and one of the first in the world to obtain ISO 9001:2000 Quality Management certification.
In June 2001 the operator's GPRS service went live. In July 2001 it was awarded the licence to offer a UMTS service for a concession fee of €146.7 million. The UMTS service went live on January 27, 2004.
On February 8, 2004, the company’s brand name changed to TIM, the name of the parent company, a part of Telecom Italia and member of FreeMove, the biggest telecommunications alliance in Europe that consists of the companies Orange (UK/France/Switzerland), Telefónica (Spain), ΤΙΜ (Italy) & T-Mobile (Germany).
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