ALSO Holding privately held: ALSO Holding ALSO Holding AG is a listed distribution and logistics company based in Emmen, Switzerland. ALSO Holding is Europe's third largest (after Ingram Micro and Tech Data), broad line information technology, consumer electronics and telecommunications (ICT) distributor. In 2016, ALSO had a turnover of 8.0 billion euros. ALSO is active in 15 European countries: Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Finland, France, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Austria, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland and Slovenia; and is the market leader in its core markets of Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania and Switzerland. ALSO was founded in 1984 and has been listed
Telecommunications in Latvia mobile-cellular subscribership is roughly 150 per 100 persons; the Latvian network is now connected via fiber optic cable to Estonia, Finland, and Sweden (2008). Until 2003 Lattelecom had a monopoly in the fixed telecommunications market. This led to overwhelming use of cellular phones for private customers, fixed lines being requested mostly by companies. In Latvia exist more than 2 million mobile phones but only 644,000 fixed phone connections. Since the fixed-line voice communication monopoly ended on January 1, 2003, several companies entered the market for fixed voice communication services: Aeronavigācijas serviss, Baltcom TV, Beta Telecom, Latvenergo Tehniskais Centrs, OPTRON, Rigatta,