Swisscom AG provides telecommunications products and services primarily in Switzerland and Italy. Its Fixnet segment designs, constructs, and maintains network infrastructure; and offers network and services to individuals, small and medium size businesses, and to resellers. It also provides wholesale traffic services to national and international telecommunication providers; and leased lines, payphone services, operator services, and prepaid calling cards, as well as sells customer equipment and operates a directories database. In addition, this segment offers Internet and broadband services for home networks. The company’s Mobile segment consists of mobile telephony, which includes domestic and international traffic for calls made in Switzerland or abroad; and roaming by foreign operators whose customers use Swisscom’s networks. It also comprises value-added services numbers; data traffic; and sale of mobile handsets. Swisscom’s Solutions segment provides fixed-line domestic and international voice telephony services to business customers; leased lines; and intranet services. It also involves in the management of communication infrastructures; operations of traditional and IP-based voice and data communications networks for corporate customers; and provision of communications solutions. Its Fastweb segment provides broadband telecommunication services comprising language, data, Internet, Internet protocol television, and video on demand services for residential and corporate customers. The company also provides various IT services covering the integration and the operation of complex IT infrastructures; analogue and digital transmission signals, as well as telehousing to broadcasters, security and emergency services, and telecommunications providers; billing and collection services; and Internet-based services for hotel guests and conference participants. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Bern, Switzerland.