ONI is a Portuguese telecommunications company that operates exclusively in the business-to-business market; its clients are Portuguese companies, public entities and international telecommunication companies. The main services that ONI provides are: Communications, IT Solutions. The services of the portfolio include not only designing a personalized solution for each client, but also continuously managing the implemented services. ONI´s shareholders have been Apax France and Fortino Capital since September 2015. These groups also own NOWO, a Portuguese telecommunications company that operates in the residential market.
History
Oni was founded in 1998 and owes its creation to the liberalization of the Portuguese telecommunications market. The original shareholders were the four biggest national economic groups – EDP, Millenium BCP, Brisa and Galp Energia. During its first 4 years of activity, ONI operated not only in the business-to-business market but also in the business-to-consumer market. Oni is deeply connected to the onset of the Next Generation Networks in Portugal, which had a big boost in 2009. These networks proved to be fundamental in meeting the needs of corporate customers and, since then, Oni has been exploring its own NGN. In 2008 Oni was completely acquired by The Riverside Company and Gestmin, leaving its position as a generalist operator to exclusively focus in the corporate and operator segments. Since then, the company operates under the brand Oni Communications. Between 2009 and 2011, the company was considered by Exame magazine as “One of the Best Companies to Work For”, being the only telecommunications operator on the ranking. In August 2013, its total capital was acquired by Altice, and in September 2015 was sold to and
Chronology
1998: 1st telecommunications company after market liberalization; 1st redundant SDH network in Portugal 1999: 1st Multi-Services ATM and IP network in Portugal 2000: 1st new operator offering direct access;1st Multi-Services IP-MPLS network in Portugal 2001: Integration of Brisatel and Comnexo´s network 2002: Oni captures 40% of the market share lost by the incumbent operator;1st Metro-Ethernet of client in Portugal 2003: 1st operator with a public VoIP Gateway 2004: 1st telephone service offer without signature of telephone line;1st bundled voice and Internet offering 2005: 1st commercial offer of access to the electric network: powerline. 2007: Oni is acquired by The Riverside Company and Gestmin and focus exclusively on the Corporate, Government and Carriers markets. Sells portfolio of residential and SoHo clients 2008: One of the first new operators to achieve the break-even. 2009: First Portuguese operator to present to the Portuguese Government an investment program for NGN ; Opening of the Next Generation Operation Center. 2012: Launch of the first Enterprise Cloud offer. 2014: Launch of the IP Centrex offer; Launch of service Bundles targeted to the SME market. 2015: Launch of a new offer targeted to the SME market. 2016: Launch of the first ONI´s mobile offer – Enterprise Mobile, Launch of offer SMS broadcast.
