Ascom (company)

Ascom Holding AG
Company typePublic (SIXASCN)
Industry
Founded1987
Headquarters Baar (ZG)
Key people
Nicolas Vanden Abeele (CEO)[1]
RevenueCHF 297.4 million (2022)[2]
Number of employees
1345 (31 December 2022)[2]
DivisionsWireless Solutions

Ascom Holding AG is a Swiss telecommunications company focusing on wireless on-site communications. The company has subsidiaries in 18 countries and a workforce of some 1350 employees worldwide.[2]

Ascom registered shares (symbol ASCN) are listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange in Zurich. Ascom (Schweiz) AG is a subsidiary with former company names Hasler AG, Hasler Ascom AG and Ascom AG.[3]

Ascom services are based on VoWiFi, IP-DECT, Nurse Call, paging technologies, smartphones, apps and software suites for healthcare and enterprise segments. Founded in the 1950s as TATECO (an abbreviation of Tore Andersson, Tele Control) based in Gothenburg, Sweden, Ascom Wireless Solutions is part of Ascom Holding, listed on the Swiss Stock Exchange.

The former division Ascom Network Testing was sold on 30 September 2016 to Infovista.[4]

The former Autelca division of Ascom Holding provided ticket vending machines to railways in Great Britain under the name Ascom EasyTicket.

  1. ^ Nicolas Vanden Abeele appointed new ascom CEO. ascom.com, January 26, 2022. Retrieved January 31, 2022.
  2. ^ a b c Ascom made good progress in 2022. ad-hoc announcement, 7 March 2023. Retrieved 8 March 2023.
  3. ^ Information provided by Moneyhouse
  4. ^ Giorgio V. Müller: Ascoms "letzter" Fehlschlag - Résumé einer fehlgeschlagenen Diversifizierung. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 14 February 2017, p. 28.