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ONO

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Spanish telecommunications company

ONO was a Spanish broadband communication and entertainment company, delivering integrated telephone, television and Internet services to its residential customers. In this segment, it has 3.7 million services contracted and over six million users. ONO was incorporated in 1998.2 It is part of Vodafone.1 It ceased to exist in 2018.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 20, 2026.

Overview

Sep 29, 1998Founded1
  • Industrymobile phone industry, telecommunications industry1
  • HeadquartersMadrid1
  • Websitewww.ono.es
  • Legal formS.A.U.1

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ONO was a Spanish broadband communication and entertainment company, delivering integrated telephone, television and Internet services to its residential customers. In this segment, it has 3.7 million services contracted and over six million users.2

Corporate structure

ONO is part of a group headed by Vodafone. 126 entities, 31 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

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The story

Company background

According to data from its web page, at the end of First Quarter of 2008, ONO had 1.8 million clients and it has rolled out a next generation network that covers over 6,850,000 homes and business. During the last 12 months, the company has released a total of 414,000 new households, an increase of 6.4% year-over-year.

ONO rolled out its own cable network in Spain. In areas where the operator did not offer its proprietary infrastructure, ONO offered phone and Internet service through ULL technology.

Due to Vodafone's acquisition of Ono, Ono became defunct and no longer provide services.

History

In 1998, ONO was awarded licences to build its own next generation network in 11 Spanish regions.

In May 2004, ONO acquired Retecal, a cable operator from Castilla y León. Because of its precarious financial situation, ONO decided to help the company with a 30 million euros cash investment so that It could continue operations.

In August 2005, ONO reached an agreement with Grupo Auna shareholders to acquire its telecommunications unit for €2.2 billion. In November 2005, the acquisition was concluded, with the purchase of Auna's cable unit. Soon after ONO started the integration of both companies, creating Spain’s biggest broadband and entertainment alternative operator to former monopoly, Telefónica.

In the wake of the acquisition of Auna, ONO received the support of venture capital firms (JP Morgan Partners, Providence Equity, Thomas H.Lee Company, GE Capital Services Structures Finance Group, Inc., Quadrangle Group).

By the end of 2005, ONO started broadcasting the new DTT channels.

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In 2006, ONO had to set an up a redundancy program, affecting around 1,000 workers.

In December 2006, ONO signs an agreement with Telefónica to use its mobile network, thus becoming a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO).

At the end of 2007, the company launched "ONO io", a convergent fix-mobile phone service.

In 2008, ONO has announced that it is planning to offer broadband access at 100 Mbit/s using "DOCSIS 3.0" technology protocol. ONO has invested over €9 billion to roll out its network.

In 2009, ONO has successfully rolled out a 50 Mbit/s connection using DOCSIS 3.0, but only in certain regions of Madrid.

From Wikipedia’s article on Ono (Spain), shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Products and brands

  • telephony

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ONO corporate services

ONO offers communications services for business anywhere in Spain.

ONO's broad range of business services can be best summarized as follows:

Telephone services, offering, in addition to basic services (lines, primary services, exchanges and terminals), multiple advanced options. Additionally, with its VoIP services, it seeks to broaden its product range by incorporating multimedia options into everyday communications.

High-speed broadband services.

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Managed services such as security, hosting, online backup, ASP tools and e-learning, amongst others.

ONO residential services

ONO has provided combined telephone, television and internet services since it commenced operations in 1998. It implements its own latest-generation cable infrastructure, which provides services to more than 1.8 million direct access customers.

ONO has launched ONO io, the first fixed-mobile convergent phone in Spain for all its residential customers. It offers new smart mobile terminals that allow access to both fixed (at home) and mobile (outdoors) networks, but has discontinued making new contracts for the time being.

Fixed phone service

ONO offers an all-included package for fixed line customers, with free domestic calls to all fixed line numbers (up to 60 minutes per call). There is a monthly charge of €15 for the line rental

Mobile phone service

The mobile market in Spain is open to all operators since February 2006 through the mechanism of mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs). ONO requested to the CMT (Spanish regulator) a license to operate as an MVNO and signed an agreement with Telefónica to use its mobile network, becoming the fourth operator with a quadruple play offer in Spain: fixed phone, mobile phone, Internet and TV. Other quadruple play operators include Telefónica, Orange and Euskaltel.

From Wikipedia’s article on Ono (Spain), shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Subsidiaries and ownership

Parent company

Owners

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Timeline

  1. Jan 1, 2018Dissolved Dissolved1
  2. Sep 29, 1998Founded Founded1

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