Kathrein-Werke KG is a German manufacturer of antenna systems and related electronics. The company was founded in

Rosenheim Rosenheim () is a city in Bavaria, Germany. It is an independent city located in the centre of the Rosenheim (district), district of Rosenheim (Upper Bavaria), and is also the seat of its administration. It is located on the west bank of the Inn ...

(

Upper Bavaria Upper Bavaria (, ; ) is one of the seven administrative regions of Bavaria, Germany. Geography Upper Bavaria is located in the southern portion of Bavaria, and is centered on the city of Munich, both state capital and seat of the district gove ...

) in 1919 and is still headquartered there. It is the world's oldest and largest antenna manufacturer, valued at about $1.8 billion in 2015. The company is headed by the German billionaire

Anton Kathrein Jr. Anton Kathrein Jr. (born 1983/1984) is a German billionaire businessman. He is the owner of Kathrein-Werke KG, a German manufacturer of cables, antenna and receivers that allows cellphone signals to travel across the world. The company was origi ...

who ascended to the CEO position in 2012 following the death of his father Anton Kathrein. Kathrein produces antennas for

GSM The Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) is a family of standards to describe the protocols for second-generation (2G) digital cellular networks, as used by mobile devices such as mobile phones and Mobile broadband modem, mobile broadba ...

and

UMTS The Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) is a 3G mobile cellular system for networks based on the GSM standard. UMTS uses Wideband Code Division Multiple Access, wideband code-division multiple access (W-CDMA) radio access technolog ...

mobile radio towers and for various car manufacturers such as

BMW Bayerische Motoren Werke AG, trading as BMW Group (commonly abbreviated to BMW (), sometimes anglicised as Bavarian Motor Works), is a German multinational manufacturer of vehicles and motorcycles headquartered in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. Th ...

. Most satellite receivers and satellite parabolic antennas for radio and television reception are developed and partly produced by Kathrein in Germany. Many radio and television antenna towers in Germany (the ones with red and white striped tips) are equipped with Kathrein antennas. The corresponding transmitters usually are supplied by

Rohde & Schwarz Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG ( , ) is a German multinational electronics group specializing in the fields of electronic test equipment, broadcast & media, cybersecurity, radiomonitoring and radiolocation, and radiocommunication. The company als ...

. In February 2019 it became known that the core business with mobile phone antennas and filters would be sold to the Swedish network supplier

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External links

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