(October 2010)
Vattenfall Europe Netcom appointed Mr Rainer Wiggers to run the company´s Sales/Marketing division. Mr Wiggers replaces Mr Jürgen Schunk who took over a new position at Vattenfall Europe Netzservice.
Before taking over as Head of Sales/Marketing at Vattenfall Europe Netcom on 18 October 2010, Mr Wiggers worked as development engineer specialized and chief of development office in analogous and digital communications technology as well as project manager and product manager for Fiber To The Curb/Building (FTTC / B) - Access solutions.
Mr Wiggers studied Electrical Engineering at Technical University (TU) Dortmund.
Vattenfall Europe Netcom Moves Headquarters to New Location in Berlin
(June 2009)
To accommodate its expanding operations, Vattenfall Europe Netcom moved its headquarters to a new location in the center of Berlin. Since Monday, 22 June 2009, the Vattenfall Europe Netcom headquarters are located at
Köpenicker Straße 73
"This new location and its spatial and technical conditions allows us to accommodate our operations", says Managing Director Dr. Carsten Krüger. The new company seat is located in the heart of Berlin, about 1500 meters from Alexanderplatz and only a few steps from S-Bahn station Jannowitzbrücke and from metro station Heinrich-Heine-Platz. The Vattenfall Europe locations Chausseestraße and Puschkinallee are only a few kilometres away.
New Phone and Fax Numbers
Cell phone numbers are still valid.
The P.O. Box address stays the same:
Vattenfall Europe Netcom
19179 Berlin
Germany
The Vattenfall Europe visitor center is located in the first floor of Vattenfall Europe Netcoms new building. The next door neighbour is the cogeneration plant Heizkraftwerk Mitte at Köpenicker Straße 60.
All phone and fax numbers of Vattenfall Europe Netcom in Berlin have changed due to the move. The new dial-in number is +49 30 20 21 55 100. The new fax number is +49 30 20 21 55 101.
PF 040280
10061 Berlin
4cE Member Company Is Czech Republic´s Largest ICT provider: ČEZnet and ČEZData merged to Create ČEZ ICT SERVICES
(October 2008)
4cE founding member ČEZnet and ČEZData merged on 1 October 2008. The name of the new company, led by CEO Kamil Čermák, is ČEZ ICT SERVICES. ČEZ ICT SERVICES is the Czech Republic´s largest ICT provider and the ČEZ Group´s single ICT provider The company will be responsible for the implementation of a single model of ICT services in order to manage and provide for the ČEZ Group's internal and external needs in terms of ICT support. ČEZ ICT SERVICES has a variety of clients from outside of the CEZ Group, such as ČEPS, GTS Novera, Telefónica O2 Czech Republic, RWE Energy Customer Services CZ, and the Ministry of the Interior. The company provides IT support to approx. 16.000 customers in the Czech Republic and 2.000 abroad. The number of direct users of voice services amounts to tens of thousands -- about 10.000 company cell phones, 20.000 cell phones that are part of the benefit program, and 20.000 land lines.
4cE Network Extended: STM-16 Link connects Austria and Bulgaria
(February 2008)
Austrian 4cE member EVN added new regions to the 4cE network map. A 2.5 Gbps capacity state-of-the-art STM-16 link between the Austrian capital, Vienna, the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, and Bulgaria´s second-largest city, Plovdiv, was installed by EVN in June 2007. Points of Presence (PoPs) in Sofia and Plovdiv allow for the termination of long-distance carriers´ services and the provision of connections into the local telephone network. Plovdiv, the endpoint of the new connection, is situated 125 kilometers South-East of Sofia, in the Upper Thracian Plain region. The city in the central part of South Bulgaria is one of the oldest in Europe and, today, the second largest of the country.
4cE company New Market Leader in Croatian Cable TV
(April 2007)
Burgenländische Elektrizitätswirtschafts-AG (BEWAG) acquired Croatia´s two leading cable TV companies. Adriatic Kabel and Digitalni Centar Medija together currently control 72 percent of the Croation cable TV market. They shall be merged with and into B.net Croatia by September, covering the business segments digital and analogue cable TV, digital fixed line telephony, broadband internet, and business services. BEWAG´s telecommunications subsidiary B.net Burgenland Telekom is 4cE member since April 2002.
Croatia currently ranks third to last of all European countries regarding broadband penetration, so B.net Croatia sees huge potential for future growth in this field. Infrastructure and digital services like IPTV or VoD shall be upgraded. Wireless internet access shall be made available outside metropolitan areas and digital services in Croatia shall be improved.
Austrian 4cE-Member Has New Name and Additional Services
(October 2005)
Austrian 4cE-member Well.COM Datahighway Burgenland has merged with its former sister company, Burgenländisches Kabelfernsehen (BKF), to form B.net Burgenland Telekom.
The new company provides triple-play services - internet, cable television and phone - in the southeastern Austrian state of Burgenland, reaching more than 60 000 households via coaxial cable and providing more than 2 000 customers with broadband internet access via Wireless Lan. For this purpose, more than 100 access points for point-to-multi-point WLAN were installed in the b.net area.
As a 4cE-member, B.net offers redundant dark fiber and leased lines connecting the Austrian capital Vienna with Budapest/Hungary and Bratislava/Slovakia. Interconnections to further Central and Eastern European countries are also available.
4cE-Basis in Poland Strengthened
(October 2004)
EXATEL S.A., the new 4cE partner in Poland, has started operations on a strong footing in October 2004: The new company, product of the merger between 4cE-founding member Tel-Energo S.A. and BPT Telebank S.A., operates Poland´s second largest telecommunications network, connecting approximately 400 towns and cities and spanning more than 15,000 kilometers. The network is interconnected with IP networks of major Polish and foreign op-erators at a capacity of up to 320 Gbps.
Both, Tel-Energo and BPT Telbank, have many years of experience in providing modern telecommunications services to different kinds of businesses such as banks, power compa-nies, telecommunications companies, and public authorities. Together with the other 4cE companies, EXATEL will offer a broad range of reliable high-quality telecommunications services in the Central European country and beyond.
New name for established telecom company: VEAGCOM is now Vattenfall Europe Netcom
(April 2004)
East-Germanys VEAGCOM, one of the 4cE -founder members, has changed its name. Since 19 April 2004, the Berlin-based optical-network operator goes by the name of Vattenfall Europe Netcom.
"The new name reflects that we are part of the Vattenfall-Europe group", says Gunnar Wilhelm, Managing Director of Vattenfall Europe Netcom. „"In the future, we will offer our well-tried telecom services under the new name Vattenfall Europe Netcom. As a member of 4cE - For connecting Europe, an alliance of network operators from Denmark, Austria, Poland, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, we will, of course, continue to offer cross-border broadband connections to and from all 4cE-member countries".
Vattenfall Europe, the fifth-largest power company in Europe which ranks third in Germany, was founded in 2002 after Swedens Vattenfall AB acquired Hamburgische Elektricitätswerke (HEW), BEWAG (Berlin), Vereinigte Energiewerke (VEAG), and Lausitzer Braunkohle (Laubag) (both East Germany) to create a new subsidiary in continental Europe. 4cE - For connecting Europe was founded beginning 2000 as a marketing alliance of tele-com-network operators in West-, Central- and Eastern Europe. Via "One-Stop-Shopping", cross-border broadband connections from 2 Mbps to 2.5 Gbps can be leased in each of the 4cE-member countries.
More information about Vattenfall Europe Netcom is available on the internet
at www.vattenfall.de/netcom or www.4cE.org.
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