TDC Group Annual Report 2011(6,4MB) - TDC Annual Report 2011

Internet
The four regional telephone companies were delivering
data services to primarily the financial service sector as
early as in the late 1970s. In 1995, Tele Danmark began
offering businesses and institutions internet access, as
we know it today, based on the worldwide standardised
Internet Protocol (IP) technology. The following year,
Tele Danmark began offering internet access to
residential customers and reached 160,000 customers
within one year. In 1997, the data traffic transmitted in
Tele Danmark’s network exceeded the total amount of
voice traffic produced in Denmark. Since then, data
traffic has continued to increase exponentially in line
with continuous improvements of data speed from a
measured top speed of 64 kbps in 1993 to a measured
top speed of 10 Gbps in 2012.
TDC Group Annual Report 2011
Tele Danmark is formed
In 1990, the Danish Parliament decided to merge the
regional telephone companies, KTAS, Jydsk Telefon, Fyns
Telefon and Tele Sønderjylland, into a 100 percent stateowned
holding company to ensure stronger international
competitive power. The company was named Tele Danmark
A/S. Five years later, the holding company's subsidiaries
merged to form the nationwide company Tele Danmark.
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