Headquarter
Zürich, Switzerland
Sunrise Communications Group AG (Sunrise) is listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange in Zurich and is the leading challenger in the Swiss telecommunications market.
Sunrise is the largest non state-controlled telecommunications company in Switzerland, offering its mobile, Internet, TV and landline services to private and business customers. Sunrise offers the best mobile network in Switzerland (connect mobile network test 1/2018) providing the best geographic 4G/LTE coverage across 95% of Switzerland and 99.98% of the population. Sunrise offers 4.5G/LTE advanced with up to 900 Mbit/s in the five biggest Swiss cities already. Sunrise benefits from an 11,800 km nationwide state-of-the-art fibre network backbone. On the fixed side, Sunrise reaches over 90% of households in Switzerland with its fully-invested LLU network. The company offers the most advanced fiber technologies, such as vectoring, FTTS, FTTB and FTTH, thanks to its long-term agreement with the incumbent, SFN and local utilities.
Revenue
1.854.000CHF
2017
Employees
1645.4
2017
Customers
3.400.000
2017
Operating in
1country
2018
CEO
Olaf Swantee is CEO at Sunrise since May 2016. He spent his early career in IT, before moving into telecommunications at Orange. He became Executive Vice-President at Orange-France Telecom and sat on the EE board before taking over as Chief Executive. During H1 2014, he has accepted a non-executive board role in Legal & General, one of the largest financial services companies in the FTSE 100. He transformed EE from a joint venture of a #3 and #4 into an industry leader and increased its enterprise value by 4B£. The company was sold to BT in the beginning of Feb. 2015 for 12.5B£. Olaf was named CEO of the Year at the World Communication Awards in 2013.
Main business areas
Sunrise offers mobile, Internet, TV and landline services to private and business customers.
Market position
Sunrise is the largest non state-controlled telecommunications company in Switzerland.
