News Summary:
On September 18, 2026, Sonja Wallner, Chief Financial Officer of A1 Austria since 2015 and A1 Group since 2023, announced her decision not to extend her Management Board mandates beyond May 2027. Concurrently, Thomas Arnoldner, Deputy CEO of Telekom Austria AG, was appointed CEO of ÖBAG, the investment holding company of the Republic of Austria and a shareholder in Telekom Austria, effective February 1, 2027. Previously, on September 17, A1 and media company CosmoBlue Media signed a three-year agreement to distribute the Da Vinci HD educational and family channel across eight Central and Eastern European markets, with A1 providing uplink services, satellite capacity, conditional access system integration, monitoring, and technical support. This agreement followed A1 Telekom Austria's commencement of the HD version's transmission on September 16 for Central and Eastern Europe, upgrading from the SD version previously carried for internal use within the A1 Group. The partnership between A1 and CosmoBlue Media deepened with the initial launch of the Da Vinci channel's HD transmission across the region on September 15.
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