Telekom Austria Group Launches A1 digital

VIENNA: Telekom Austria Group has established A1 digital international, a new subsidiary that will focus on digital business areas.

Elisabetta Castiglioni has been tapped as CEO of the new venture, which will be offering custom-tailored products and services in the area of digitalization. A1 digital will initially focus on two areas: solutions in IoT (Internet of Things), which will be expanded, and cloud-based ICT solutions, which build on existing data center capacities in Austria and the Telekom Austria Group’s other markets. Internationally, the focus will be on Europe and will include the group’s existing markets in CEE as well as new markets in Western Europe, in particular, Germany. The business in Germany will be managed by a separate company in the future based in Munich.

“With Elisabetta Castiglioni we have gained a top manager who has a wealth of international experience and a proven track record in the telecommunications and technology industry,” said Alejandro Plater, the CEO of Telekom Austria Group. “With her experience in growing new business areas and her deep knowledge of how global companies act, Elisabetta is the ideal candidate to drive the paradigm shift away from our traditional core business toward digitalization.”

“Digitalization offers huge opportunities and possibilities, and we as A1 digital can offer products and services that support our customers in precisely this area and help them to generate the greatest possible benefit,” said Castiglioni. “Digitalization will change traditional business models, ushering in structural change. Digitalization will thus become a key strategic issue.”

“We are not constrained by national borders because our services and customers are not limited to any borders,” Castiglioni continued, “and from our base in Vienna we will be digitalizing both the Austrian and other regional markets.”

“This is another demonstration of the commitment of our owner América Móvil to Vienna as our headquarters and as a business location,” added Plater.