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Otenet was a major
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of
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established in 1995. The company is now consolidated into the parent company OTE. Otenet S.A. was an S.A. (corporation) providing
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and services. The major
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of OTEnet was OTE. The other share holders were NCSR Demokritos ( Ariadnet) and
National Technical University of Athens The National (Metsovian) Technical University of Athens (NTUA; , ''National Metsovian Polytechnic''), sometimes known as Athens Polytechnic, a university in Athens, Greece. It is named in honor of its benefactors Nikolaos Stournaris, Eleni Tosi ...
each holding 10,000 shares. OTE eventually bought back the shares from these organizations in 2006.


Performance

The quality of OTEnet's services was often described as 'inadequate'. Especially the poor performance of their networks on Greece's many small islands has drawn considerable criticism.Athens News, January 2008


References


External links


OTEnet Website
Internet service providers of Greece {{telecom-company-stub