Wind Telecom

Wind Telecom S.p.A.

Wind Telecom headquarters in Rome, Italy
Formerly	Weather Investments S.p.A. (2005–2011)
Company type	Holding
Industry	Telecommunications
Founded	June 2005; 19 years ago (2005-06) in Rome, Italy
Founder	Naguib Sawiris
Defunct	December 1, 2017 (2017-12-01)
Fate	Merged into VimpelCom
Successor	VimpelCom
Headquarters	Rome , Italy
Area served	Italy Cambodia Algeria Bangladesh Pakistan Burundi Zimbabwe Central African Republic Egypt North Korea Namibia Greece
Products	Mobile telephony, fixed-line telephony, Broadband Internet, IT Services, IPTV
Revenue	313,000 Euro (2009)
Owner	Weather Investments II (87.88%)
Parent	VimpelCom
Subsidiaries	Wind Telecomunicazioni (99.996%) WIND Hellas (100%) Orascom Telecom Holding (50%)
Website	www.windgroup.it

Wind Telecom S.p.A. (formerly Weather Investments S.p.A.) was an Italian telecommunications holding company owned by the multinational telecommunications company VimpelCom Ltd., originally controlled by Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris.^[1]

It operated through its subsidiaries Orascom Telecom Holding S.A.E. and Wind Telecomunicazioni S.p.A. since December 2017, when it merged into VimpelCom Holdings B.V.^[2]