Infobox_Company
company_name = hellas online
company_
company_type = Public
foundation = 1993 | location = Athens, Greece
key_people = Nasos Zarkalis, CEO
Lazaros Lentzaris, CTO
Antonis Kerastaris CFO
area_served = Greece | industry = Telecommunications
products = Internet Services Provider, Telecommunications provider and Internet solutions
homepage = [http://www.hol.gr www.hol.gr]
Hellas Online is one of the leading Greek fixed-line telephony services providers based in Athens. hellas online (also known as "hol"), member of the Intracom Holdings group since 2006, is one of the first Internet providers in Greece to offer public dial-up Internet services, and has since evolved from an ISP, offering primarily internet access services, to a fixed-line telecommunications services provider offering a broad range of retail, business and wholesale services.
History
Hellas Online was founded in 1993[ [http://www.mlahanas.de/Greece/Info/HellasOnLine.html Hellas On-Line History] ] offering dial-up services in the Athens metropolitan area. The dial-up service was then expanded to the rest of Greece using low-toll telephone numbers. In 2006 it was acquired by Intracom [cite news |title=Greece's Intracom to fully acquire ISP Hellas On Line from Eurobank |url=http://www.forbes.com/afxnewslimited/feeds/afx/2005/08/08/afx2175284.html |work=Forbes |date=2005-08-08 |accessdate=2008-06-09 ] and expanded its services to include broadband ADSL and SHDSL services. In 2007 it acquired 100% of Attica Telecom, [cite news |title=Hellas On Line buys Attica Telecom for EUR 46.3 mln |url=http://www.telecom.paper.nl/news/article.aspx?id=165572&nr= |work=Telecom Paper |date=2007-04-24 |accessdate=2008-06-09 ] the largest provider of fiber-optic services in the city of Athens and in June of the same year established a strategic partnership with Vodafone Greece. [cite news |title=Vodafone and hol launch ADSL bundles |url=http://wirelessfederation.com/news/vodafone-and-hol-launch-adsl-bundles-greece/ |work=Wireless News |date=2007-07-04 |accessdate=2008-06-09 ] ]Network
Hellas online owns and operates a fibre optic network of approximately 3,000 kilometres (as of Spring, 2008). Its core backbone network is the second largest network in Greece after that of OTE, the incumbent operator.
Through its points of presence (PoPs) comprising physical co-location in unbundled local loops (LLUs) hellas online offers extensive population coverage in the metropolitan areas of the two largest cities in Greece, Athens (over 80%) and Thessaloniki (over 70%), and significant population coverage in the rest of Greece.
Hellas online’s extensive proprietary fibre optic network connects the three major Greek cities of Athens, Thessaloniki, and Patras, and covers significant parts of the most densely populated areas of Greece.
Hellas online’s network provides high-capacity connection between its data centres and sites, thus allowing hellas online to backhaul high bandwidth cost-effectively to its unbundled local loops, without having to lease capacity from OTE, while in certain cases, enabling hellas online to lease its own spare capacity to other Greek or international telecommunications operators.
External Links
[http://www.hol.gr hellas online]
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