TDC Group Annual Report 2011(6,4MB) - TDC Annual Report 2011
TDC Group Annual Report 2011(6,4MB) - TDC Annual Report 2011
TDC Group Annual Report 2011(6,4MB) - TDC Annual Report 2011
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Nordic<br />
<strong>2011</strong> at a glance<br />
• Solid revenue and EBITDA growth supported by a strong<br />
order intake and solid progress in the public sector<br />
especially in IP-VPN and terminal sales, as well as<br />
‘Communication as a Service’ (CaaS).<br />
• Several strong wins in <strong>2011</strong>, such as contracts with the<br />
City of Vantaa (Finland), Norwegian Public Roads<br />
Administration ‘Statens Vegvesen’ (Norway),<br />
‘Logica/Region Syd’, (Hosting) and the postal company<br />
‘Posten’ (Sweden).<br />
• Introduction of a common pan-Nordic video-conference<br />
solution, further leveraging <strong>TDC</strong>’s presence across the<br />
Nordic region.<br />
• The regulatory situation in Sweden remains uncertain<br />
following a recent Swedish court ruling regarding mobile<br />
and landline termination rates for the period from 2008<br />
to February 2010.<br />
About Nordic<br />
Nordic is present in Finland, Norway and Sweden, offering a<br />
full range of operator services and in Sweden, also<br />
integrator services which include the Direct business. In<br />
addition, <strong>TDC</strong> Hosting provides IT hosting solutions in<br />
Finland, Sweden and Denmark. Operator services include<br />
landline telephony, mobile telephony, internet and network<br />
<strong>TDC</strong> <strong>Group</strong> <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>2011</strong><br />
(including IP-VPN services). The target customer segments<br />
are both the public sector and medium-sized to large<br />
enterprises in Sweden, Norway and Finland. Services are<br />
also offered to global customers through partnerships.<br />
In the mobile market, Nordic operates through agreements<br />
with local operators using MVNO agreements in Sweden<br />
and Norway and a service provider agreement in Finland,<br />
allowing <strong>TDC</strong> to offer pan-Nordic products.<br />
Nordic has its own pan-Nordic landline network, which is<br />
upgraded on an ongoing basis. The network covers mainly<br />
medium-sized to large towns in the Nordic region, and<br />
includes fibre-based backbone (fibre cable and a pan-Nordic<br />
SDH network delivering landline point-to-point capacity),<br />
PSTN/ISDN and IP/Ethernet networks. Combined with its<br />
local presence, the pan-Nordic network enables Nordic to<br />
benefit from sales synergies by utilising cross-selling<br />
opportunities to offer competitive pan-Nordic<br />
telecommunications solutions for business customers and<br />
public-sector customers across the Nordic countries.<br />
Nordic and Business benefit from sharing customer<br />
relationships as well as products and services. Leveraging<br />
on the pan-Nordic network, Nordic also offers a wide range<br />
of wholesale solutions.<br />
Through <strong>TDC</strong> Hosting, Nordic offers hosting and<br />
information technology operations solutions, with a primary<br />
focus on providing managed hosting, co-location and<br />
shared hosting for small and medium-sized enterprises.<br />
During <strong>2011</strong>, <strong>TDC</strong> Hosting also launched cloud services.<br />
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