Omnitel

Omnitel is also the former name of Vodafone Italy.

Omnitel

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Industry	Mobile network operator, Internet services operator
Founded	1991
Founder	Juozas P. Kazickas and Viktoras Gediminas Gruodis
Headquarters	Vilnius, Lithuania
Area served	Lithuania
Key people	Dan Strömberg, President
Revenue	550,000,000 LTL ($263 million)
Owner	TeliaSonera AB - 100%
Number of employees	660 (2011)
Parent	TeliaSonera
Divisions	none
Slogan	Pirmiausia - Jūs
Website	www.omnitel.lt

Omnitel, a member of TeliaSonera group, is one of the largest telecommunication companies in the Baltic states.

In Lithuania, it has over 2 million customers and more than one-third of the mobile revenue market.

History

Founded in 1991 by Juozas Kazickas as Litcom, Omnitel was Lithuania's first private telecommunications company. In August 2004, Omnitel was acquired by TeliaSonera.

Omnitel was the first network operator in Lithuania to launch GSM services (in 1995) and one of the first companies in Europe having introduced packet data transfer technology GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) in its network. Omnitel, the first in Lithuania to start the commercial 3G services in 2006, which was followed by the highest speed mobile internet HSDPA.