Cosmote Mobile Telecommunications
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COSMOTE MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS (Greek: COSMOTE ΚΙΝΗΤΕΣ ΤΗΛΕΠΙΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΕΣ) known as just Cosmote is the largest mobile network operator in Greece. The company is headquartered in Athens and is a fully owned subsidiary of the Hellenic Telecommunications Organization (OTE), the incumbent telecommunications provider in Greece. COSMOTE has developed business operations in two other Southeast Europe countries through subsidiaries: Telekom Albania (now One Telecommunications) and Telekom Romania, addressing an extended market of 45 million people. In all three countries COSMOTE counts approximately 35.6 million customers.[6]
Native name | COSMOTE – ΚΙΝΗΤΕΣ ΤΗΛΕΠΙΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΕΣ [2] |
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Company type | Subsidiary |
Industry | Telecommunications |
Founded | October 3, 1996; 27 years ago (1996-10-03)[2] in Athens, Greece[3] |
Defunct | January 2, 2024 (2024-01-02)[2] |
Fate | Merged with OTE[4] |
Headquarters | Marousi, Greece[2] |
Area served | Europe |
Key people | [2][5] |
Parent | OTE |
Website | cosmote |
In September 2015, the parent company OTE announced they are to adopt the COSMOTE brand as their uniform commercial brand covering fixed, broadband and mobile telephony. At this time, the company has chosen not to adopt the Deutsche Telekom brand under which name it operates in its Central and Eastern European operations.[7]
On Monday 26 October, the new logo was launched.