Salt Mobile

{{Short description|Swiss telecommunications company}} {{Sources exist|date=March 2020}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2020}} {{Infobox company | name = Salt Mobile SA | logo = Salt Logo 2015.svg | former_name = Orange Communications SA/AG (1999-2015)<br />Salt SA/AG (2015) | type = Private | industry = Telecommunications | fate = | predecessor = | successor = | founded = {{Start date and age|1999|06}} in Renens, Switzerland | founder = Orange | defunct = | hq_location_city = Renens | hq_location_country = Switzerland | num_locations =  | area_served = Switzerland | key_people = Max Nunziata (CEO since June 1, 2023)<ref name="Salt">[https://www.srf.ch/news/wirtschaft/wechsel-an-der-spitze-salt-chef-tritt-ab-sein-nachfolger-ist-bestimmt ''Salt-Chef tritt ab – sein Nachfolger ist bestimmt''] srf.ch, February 24, 2023, accessed March 26, 2023.</ref> | products = {{Unbulleted list |Mobile telephony |Fixed-line telephony |Mobile Internet |Digital television }} | services = | revenue = CHF 1.073 million (2022) <ref>[https://www.salt.ch/media/press/files/2019/3/13/69edcc4e-d2a5-4b00-83e4-50427988629c/411/20190313_PR_FY2018_EN.pdf ''Salt – 2018 Full Year Results''] salt.ch, March 13, 2019, accessed February 27, 2020.</ref> | operating_income = CHF 971 million (2022)<ref name=":0">[https://www.salt.ch/sites/default/files/2023-03/Press%20release_Salt_FYR22_24.03.2023.pdf ''Full Year Results 2022''] salt.ch, March 24, 2023, accessed March 26, 2023.</ref> | net_income = CHF 896 million (2022)<ref name=":0" /> | assets = | equity = | num_employees = > 1,000 (2022)<ref name=":0" /> | parent = NJJ Holding | website = {{URL|salt.ch}} | module = {{Infobox NSP | child = yes | asn = 15796 | trafficlevels = 1-5 Tbps<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.peeringdb.com/net/19206 | title=PeeringDB: Salt Mobile}}</ref> }} }}

'''Salt Mobile SA''' (formerly '''Orange Switzerland''') is a Swiss telecommunications company focusing on mobile telephony and fiber-optic fixed-line telephony services.<ref>{{Cite web |date= |title=We used to be Orange. We are now called Salt. |url=https://www.salt.ch/en/about-us/ |access-date=2019-07-24 |website=Salt Mobile |language=en}}</ref>

It operates the third-largest mobile network in Switzerland, with 17% market share.

== History == thumb|Former company logo (1999–2015) Salt was founded in 1999 as the Swiss subsidiary of Orange, and began offering its telecommunications services in mid-1999. The merger with Sunrise was prohibited by the Swiss competition authority WEKO in April 2010.<ref>{{cite web |title=Orange / Sunrise: No merger - Weko prohibits merger |url=http://www.handelszeitung.ch/unternehmen/orangesunrise-keine-fusion-weko-untersagt-zusammenschluss |access-date=2012-06-21 |publisher=handelszeitung.ch |archive-date=July 4, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170704111055/http://www.handelszeitung.ch/unternehmen/orangesunrise-keine-fusion-weko-untersagt-zusammenschluss |url-status=dead }}</ref> Later, in 2012, it was sold to the British investment company, Apax Partners.<ref>{{cite news |title=Weko genehmigt Verkauf von Orange Schweiz an Apax {{!}} NZZ |url=http://www.nzz.ch/weko_genehmigt_verkauf_von_orange_schweiz_an_apax-1.15107184 |access-date=2012-06-21 |work=Neue Zürcher Zeitung |language=de}}</ref> It continued to license and operate under the Orange name until 2015, when the company was sold by Apax Partners to NJJ Holding of Xavier Niel and the Salt brand was launched.<ref>{{cite web |author=Adem Thomson, Arash Massoudi |title=Xavier Niel buys Orange Switzerland for €2.3bn |url=http://www.ft.com/content/43a46a26-86ac-11e4-8a51-00144feabdc0 |access-date=2016-11-30}}</ref>

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==External links== {{Commons category}} * {{Official website|}}

Category:Orange S.A. Category:Apax Partners companies Category:Telecommunications companies of Switzerland