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På Comviq kan du beställa många typer av mobiltelefoner tillsammans med abonnemang eller kontantkort. Comviq originally Comvik is since a Swedish prepaid and postpaid mobile phone flanker brand , fully owned by Tele2. The original Comvik operation is the predecessor to two listed companies: Tele2 and Millicom. The original Comvik was established in in an attempt to break the existing de facto state-sanctioned telecommunications monopoly held by Televerket at the time.
During the s, investor Jan Stenbeck 's strategy was to pursue, break up and create alternatives to the existing Swedish monopolies in service sectors including telephony and media. In the late s, Mr Stenbeck's Investment AB Kinnevik started to buy a number of smaller companies in Stockholm and Gothenburg that operated manual communication networks for car based equipment.
Through an operator the driver could reach the public telephone network. Eventually these companies were merged and rebranded as AB Företagstelefon in Stockholm. In parallel — and in the quiet — the plans were more ambitious. Completely new equipment was purchased, new telephone terminals were developed and then on 1 July Comvik launched Sweden's first automatic analogue mobile telephony network, three months ahead of Televerket's launch of its NMT network.
Since Televerket had a monopoly on telecommunications and the radio spectrum, a conflict arose between Televerket and Comvik. After many very public arguments where Televerket even threatened to disconnect Comvik from the public telephone network, the then- non-socialist government gave Comvik permission to continue and expand to a limited extent.
Comvik asked for and got a few more frequencies.
Därför ska du välja Comviq – jämför alla abonnemang
Finally Comvik had 27 frequencies. Televerkets NMT system had frequencies. Comvik had to expand into cell-based technology that today forms the basis of mobile telephony. The Swedish-based Ericsson sold no equipment to Comvik who instead had to develop the technology themselves using a mixture of suppliers. Comvik built up a customer base of 20, subscribers. In order to compete with Televerket they had a lower per-minute rate and offered free calls on evenings and weekends.
Comvik also launched several value added services aiming at small businesses. Because of the competitive situation, it was difficult to operate. There were no additional frequencies available, the customer base could not be increased and the company suffered heavy losses.
Comviq abonnemang – se priser och erbjudanden
However, with the stoic attitude and changing public attitudes versus monopolies, Comvik was finally awarded a formal GSM license in to be operated in competition with Televerket. Those activities later became the founding pillars of Millicom International Cellular , of which the latter now primarily operates in various African and South American countries under the Tigo brand name.
The old Comvik name was retained for the parallel-operating analog network for another few years before it was phased out. In name was changed to Tele2Comviq. In the brand was completely replaced by Tele2 brand. In , the mother company introduced Comviq Kontant as the first prepaid card in Sweden. Despite Tele2Comviq being dropped for GSM, the Comviq name was retained for the prepaid cards with a new logo and design introduced to distinguish it as a debit card.
In the Comviq brand was re-launched again as a very price competitive and simplistic prepaid SIM card brand, also now including fixed-priced, no binding contract postpaid subscription plans. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history. Tools Tools. Download as PDF Printable version. In other projects. Wikidata item. Swedish mobile phone flanker brand.
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