HIVE (ISP)

Tal

Type	Private
Industry	Telecommunications
Founded	Original 2004
Headquarters	Reykjavík, Iceland
Products	Telephone, Internet, VoIP, Wi-Fi, WiMax
Website	www.hive.is

HIVE was the 3rd largest Telecommuncations company in Iceland, founded in 2004. It provided broadband ADSL connection and VoIP telephone system as well as Wi-Fi fixed and mobile wireless access. In 2008 Hive merged with SKO., another Telecommuncation company, and together they took up the name Tal.

Competition

Póstur og sími had a monopoly on most telecommunications services until 1998. That year a new law came into effect and the market opened for competition. The first competitor was TAL. Others followed, the biggest one being Íslandssími. In the Internet (ISP) market the competition was a lot tougher, with names like Íslandssími, Halló!, Margmiðlun, Skíma, Skrín, Snerpa, Íslandía and Miðheimar and the list goes on. In 2003 TAL, Íslandssími and Halló! merged under the name Og Vodafone. Og Vodafone has since then bought a few Icelandic Internet Service Providers,. On October 6th Og Vodafone changed it name to Vodafone.

See also

• HIVE (ISP)
• Vodafone
• Iceland Telecom

External links

• Hive
• Tal IP fjarskipti ehf