How it started
History
The company was established as a state-owned company, named Albanian Mobile Communications (AMC), in November 1995, and started commercial operations in May 1996, thus being the first mobile operator in Albania. Instructed by Aleksandër Meksi, the team working on it was led by project manager Bashkim Kasa. The company was privatized in August 2000. Cosmote acquired 85% of AMC's capital share, through COSMO-HOLDING ALBANIA S.A., COSMOTE acquired 97% of the owned subsidiary.
On 16 January 2019, OTE part of Deutsche Telekom agreed to sell the company, at the time branded as Telekom Albania, for €50 million to Albania Telecom Invest, a company owned by the Bulgarian Vivacom owner Spas Roussev and Albanian-born entrepreneur Elvin Guri.
On 10 March 2022, the Albanian Competition Authority approved the sale of ONE Telecommunication in favor of the Hungarian company 4iG. On 21 March, the company itself announced the acquisition of 99.899% indirect stakes in One Telecommunications. This is the second acquisition of a telecommunication company in the Albanian market, following that of ALBtelecom by 4iG, explaining that these two companies are complementary in the Albanian market. Following their acquisition of the telecommunications operations in Albania, Montenegro and Hungary, 4iG had an agreement to transfer the ownership of these companies to Antenna Hungária raising then its stake at the company to 76%
The display name of One is One.al, though it might appear on some phones simply as Telekom.al or AMC.
From Wikipedia’s article on Albanian Mobile Communications, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.2