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History

Founded in 2003, The Cloud has evolved from an indoor hotspot provider into the market leading European public access provider of Wi-Fi services.

Founded in 2003, The Cloud has evolved from an indoor hotspot provider into the market leading European public access provider of Wi-Fi services.

The Cloud builds and operates low cost high performance public access Wi-Fi networks for international retailers, restaurants, leisure and hotel chains. With the expertise and a variety of outdoor city networks, including Gothenburg, Stuttgart and The City of London, we have started the process of meshing the indoor and outdoor Wi-Fi networks.

The business has services operating across 7,000 locations with 22,000 Wi-Fi network access points in 12 European countries.  We partner with and deliver seamless services to world leading telecommunication companies working closely with device manufacturers seeking to deliver high quality simple Wi-Fi access.

The Cloud has offices in London, Munich and Stockholm.

 

History and key milestones

January 2011

    BSkyB Group acquires The Cloud

August 2010

    100+ Terrabytes of data traffic


July 2010

    600,000 + unique users

June 2010
   
    Acquired Via Wia sites in Germany

Nov 2009

    FastConnect is launched to make Wi-Fi universally simple


Nov 2009

    Launch of small screen device services

Sep 2009

    Cloud FastConnect Wi Fi locator for iPhone launched


Sep 2009

    The Times Private Tech Track 100 survey ranks The Cloud 10th fastest growing company

Jun 2009

    The Company moves its UK Headquarters to St Albans

Dec 2008

    Launch of New Service Platform (all countries)

Oct 2008

    €15.3 million funding round from Ferd Ventures, existing investors and GP Bullhound

Sep 2008

    Ranked 23rd in the Times Tech Track 100

Jan 2008

    Acquisition of hotel Wi-Fi specialist GANAG in Germany

Nov 2007

    UK launch of iPhone with O2

Oct 2007

    McDonald’s takes free Wi-Fi mainstream with The Cloud

Apr 2007

    Launch of Europe's largest outdoor Wi-Fi network in City of London

Jan 2007

    Steve Nicholson joins the Cloud as CEO

Sep 2006

    Telenor partners with The Cloud Nordics

Dec 2005

   Cloud selected as a new technology pioneer by The World Economic Forum

Dec 2005

    802.1x Wi-Fi access pilot with Intel in Stockholm

May 2005

    Roll out begins in Germany

Apr 2005

    The Cloud selected for 2005 Red Herring 100 Europe

Feb 2005

    Real Business magazine votes The Cloud one of its '50 to Watch'

Jan 2005

    Roll out begins in Nordics

Sep 2004

     02 service launched

Dec 2003

    The Cloud wins the Brainheart European Wi-Fi Award 2003

Jan 2003

    The Cloud founded