Conax History

The technology, including one of the world's first pay-TV smart cards, was put into large-scale operation from 1992. In 1994 Telenor Conax was established as an independent company within the Telenor group. The company is today owned 90 % by Telenor, the leading telecom, IT and media company in Norway and 10 % by Telenor Venture II ASA, a new fund of TeleVenture, with its main areas of interest within mobile communications broadband and new media / Internet.

Conax's milestones

• 1980s Pioneers at Telenor Research Labs, developing CA principles for pay-TV (initially D2MAC, then MPEG).
• 1990 Developed one of the first pay-TV smart cards in the world
• 1992 First broadcast operation with Conax conditional access launched
• 1994 Conax AS incorporated company
• 1997 First operational launch of Conax DVB platform
• 1998 Achieved ISO certification
• 2000 Mainly in-house Telenor and Canal Digital supplies and support
• 2000 New strategy approved to expand Conax to handle the international market
• 2001 Achieved BS 7799 certification
• 2001 International expansion to secure growth and value creation
• 2001 Opening of sales-and-support offices in Singapore & India
• 2002 Launch of Conax CAS5
• 2002 - 2006 The most-winning CA vendor on new official contracts worldwide
• 2003 Established subsidiary in India and sales-and-support offices in China, Brazil and Germany
• 2004 Launch of Conax CAS7
• 2004 Opening of sales-and-support office in South Korea
• 2005 Established subsidiary in USA
• 2005 Opening of sales-and-support office in Canada
• 2006 Established subsidiary in Germany
• 2006 Opening of sales-and support office in Russia
• 2006 Conax CA in operation in over 180 installations in more than 60 countries around the world
• 2006 Revision of mission, vision and strategy