Telio
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{{Infobox company
| name = Telio AS
| logo = File:Telio logo.png
| logo_size = 101px
| type = Aksjeselskap
| genre =
| foundation = 2003
| founder =
| location_city = Oslo
| location_country = Norway
| location =
| locations =
| area_served = Norway
Denmark
Netherlands
Switzerland
| key_people = Eirik Lunde (CEO)
Erik Osmundsen (Chairman)
Alan Duric (CTO, Co-founder)
| industry = Telecommunications
| products =
| services = VoIP
| revenue =
| operating_income =
| net_income =
| owner =
| num_employees = 100 (2007)
| parent = NextGenTel Holding
| divisions =
| subsid =
| homepage = [http://www.telio.no www.telio.no]
| footnotes =
}}
Telio (stylized as Tel.io) is a Norwegian telecommunications company that provides VoIP telephony services in Norway, Denmark and the Netherlands with a total of 200,000 customers, {{cite web |url=http://www.digi.no/903996/historisk-for-telio |title=Historisk for Telio |website=Digi.no |date=2012-10-11 |language=no}} making it the second largest VoIP service provider in Norway, after Telenor.{{cite web |url=http://www.digi.no/resultater/finans/telenor+st%F8rst+i+norge+p%E5+bredb%E5ndstelefoni/art342343.html |title=Telenor størst i Norge på bredbåndstelefoni |website=Digi.no |date=2006-10-09 |language=no}} It is also a virtual supplier of GSM mobile subscriptions.
History
Founded in 2003, it was the first company to offer VoIP in Norway when it launched the service in 2004. At the time, its competitive advantage was that it offered a fixed price without any minute fees; include free calls to Western Europe, the United States and Canada. The company was placed on the Oslo Stock Exchange in 2006. The company has announced that it will target small and medium sized businesses.{{cite magazine |url=http://www.tu.no/data/article108508.ece |title=Bedriftene lokkes til bredbåndstelefoni |magazine=Teknisk Ukeblad |date=2007-09-13 |language=no}} In 2007 it launched a cooperation with Tandberg to create a new platform for video based VoIP.{{cite news |url=http://www.dagensit.no/arkiv/article1340475.ece |title=Telio og Tandberg har en plan |newspaper=Dagens it |language=no |date=2007-09-22}}
On 20 December 2012, Telio bought NextGenTel.{{cite web| url=https://www.reuters.com/article/teliasonera-brief-idUSWEA873420121220 |title=TeliaSonera sells NextGenTel to Telio |publisher=Reuters |date=2012-12-20}} NextGenTel being the 2nd largest xDSL provider in Norway, gave Telio a unique position in the market being able to deliver VoIP, Mobile, Internet & IP TV from their own platform. Full quad-play service all within their own platform. Telio's own free smartphone app Goji{{cite web| url=http://www.gojiapp.com/ |title=Goji |publisher=Telio |date=2011-04-27}} that saw the light on 27 April 2011 has kept gaining a lot of users especially in the Middle East and in USA/Canada.
References
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External links
- [https://www.hiboost.com/collections/residential Cell Phone Signal Amplifier]
Category:VoIP companies of Norway
Category:2003 establishments in Norway
Category:Telecommunications companies of Norway
Category:Telecommunications companies established in 2003