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Company type | Subsidiary |
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Industry | Telecommunications |
Founded | 1995 |
Founder | Foundation for Research & Technology – Hellas Minoan Lines |
Headquarters | , |
Area served | Greece and Cyprus |
Key people | Nikos Stathopoulos (Chairman) Panagiotis Georgiopoulos (CEO) |
Products | Mobile Fixedline telephony Broadband IPTV Satellite television Television show Pay television IT services |
Revenue | ![]() |
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Parent | United Group |
Website | nova |
Nova Telecommunications & Media S.M.S.A. is a Greek telecommunications company which provides broadband, television, mobile and fixed services. It also offers satellite services in Cyprus. It was traded on the Athens Exchange until its delisting in 2021.[2]
In June 2016, the services for clients and SMEs were rebranded under the Nova brand.[3] The company gave up Forthnet brand completely in June 2020.
On 29 May 2020 BC Partners' United Group agreed to purchase a majority stake in Nova from a consortium of 4 Greek banks.[4] As of 29 April 2021 is the sole shareholder.
On October 15, 2021, Nova announced that they would be shutting down some of their older services (like Dialup, Call-by-Call and old technology ADSL) on December 15 of the same year.[5]
On January 11, 2023, Wind Hellas had merged with Nova, therefore fixed & mobile telephony, internet and other Wind services were rebranded to Nova.