Salt Mobile

Salt Mobile SA
FormerlyOrange Communications SA/AG (1999-2015)
Salt SA/AG (2015)
TypePrivate
IndustryTelecommunications
FoundedJune 1999 in Prilly (VD), Switzerland, as Orange Communications
Rebranded as Salt Mobile in 2015
Headquarters
Prilly (VD)
,
Switzerland
Area served
Switzerland
Key peopleMax Nunziata (CEO since June 1, 2023)
Products
RevenueCHF 1.0242 billion (2025)
Number of employees
More than 1,000 (2025)
ParentNJJ Holding
ASN
  • 15796
Traffic Levels1-5 Tbps
Websitesalt.ch

Salt Mobile SA (formerly Orange Switzerland) is a Swiss telecommunications company focusing on mobile telephony and fiber-optic fixed-line telephony services.

It operates the third-largest mobile network in Switzerland, with 17% market share.

History

Former company logo (1999–2015)

Salt was founded in 1999 as the Swiss subsidiary of Orange, and began offering its telecommunications services in mid-1999. The merger with Sunrise was prohibited by the Swiss competition authority WEKO in April 2010. Later, in 2012, it was sold to the British investment company, Apax Partners. It continued to license and operate under the Orange name until 2015, when the company was sold by Apax Partners to NJJ Holding of Xavier Niel and the Salt brand was launched.

References

  1. ↑ Leslie Haeny (February 24, 2023). "Salt erhält neuen CEO". Netzwoche (in German). Retrieved July 29, 2026.
  2. 1 2 "Full Year Results 2025" (PDF) (Press release). Salt. March 31, 2026. Retrieved July 29, 2026.
  3. ↑ "PeeringDB: Salt Mobile".
  4. ↑ "We used to be Orange. We are now called Salt". Salt Mobile. Retrieved July 24, 2019.
  5. ↑ "Orange / Sunrise: No merger - Weko prohibits merger". handelszeitung.ch. Archived from the original on July 4, 2017. Retrieved June 21, 2012.
  6. ↑ "Weko genehmigt Verkauf von Orange Schweiz an Apax | NZZ". Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in German). Retrieved June 21, 2012.
  7. ↑ Adem Thomson, Arash Massoudi. "Xavier Niel buys Orange Switzerland for €2.3bn". Retrieved November 30, 2016.