Salt Mobile

Salt Mobile SA (formerly Orange Switzerland) is a Swiss telecommunications company focusing on mobile telephony and fiber-optic fixed-line telephony services.^[5]

Salt Mobile SA

Formerly	Orange Communications SA/AG (1999-2015) Salt SA/AG (2015)
Company type	Private
Industry	Telecommunications
Founded	June 1999; 26 years ago (1999-06) in Renens, Switzerland
Founder	Orange
Headquarters	Renens , Switzerland
Area served	Switzerland
Key people	Max Nunziata (CEO since June 1, 2023)[1]
Products	Mobile telephony Fixed-line telephony Mobile Internet Digital television
Revenue	CHF 1.073 million (2022) [2]
Operating income	CHF 971 million (2022)[3]
Net income	CHF 896 million (2022)[3]
Number of employees	> 1,000 (2022)[3]
Parent	NJJ Holding
ASN	15796
Traffic Levels	1-5 Tbps[4]
Website	salt.ch

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

History

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.^[6] Later, in 2012, it was sold to the British investment company, Apax Partners.^[7] 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.^[8]