About Colt
Colt aims to be the leader in enabling customers’ digital transformation through agile and on-demand, high bandwidth solutions. The Colt IQ Network connects over 800 data centres across Europe, Asia and North America’s largest business hubs, with over 25,000 on-net buildings and growing.
Colt has built its reputation on putting customers first, with a focus on delivering connectivity for enterprises that are global yet need local attention. Customers include data intensive organisations spanning over 200 cities in nearly 30 countries. Colt counts 19 of the top 25 global telecoms companies and 18 out of the top 25 global media companies (Forbes 2000 list, 2016) amongst its customers. In addition, Colt works with over 50 exchange venues and 13 European central banks.
An early proponent of consumerisation and on demand networking, Colt is also recognised as an innovator and pioneer in software defined networks (SDN) and network function virtualisation (NFV). Our customers know connectivity matters and so do we.
Privately owned, Colt is one of the most financially sound companies in its industry and able to provide the best customer experience at a competitive price. For more information, please visit www.colt.net
Our vision
To be the most customer oriented business in our industry.
The belief behind Colt’s vision is that we can provide the best experience for our customers because we have the size and scale to deliver
the infrastructure they need, while retaining the agility and personal customer experience they expect. We provide seamless integration between Europe, Asia and North America, over a common platform and technology to offer a consistent and predictable service.
Being customer oriented to us means we recruit the very best people to serve our customers. Our people are specialists with local knowledge
who support customers in 16 languages across Europe, Asia and North America.
We have a culture where the customer comes first and we like to think that as a company we’re big enough to matter but small enough to
care.
Our values
We are a winning team with strong shared values – Customer, Ownership, Leadership and Teamwork – that guide how we do business with
our customers, partners and each other.
It’s not just what we do, it is how we go about our business that makes us stand out from the crowd. Our shared values are the promise we
make to each other and we care passionately about living them in what we do.
Our customers want people who see things through their eyes and to do this we need to keep things simple. We are recognised for how we
take ownership, for the way we step up to the challenge and stay focused on the outcome. We demonstrate leadership in everything we do,
we are straight with people, even when things are tough, and balance this with a strong focus on helping our people be amazing.
We are fast on our feet and work for each other so that what we deliver to our customer is absolutely rock solid – that’s teamwork, that’s Colt’s promise.
We tell our customers to be demanding, as we know we can handle it.
CSR
Our CSR activity is based on 4 key pillars: Colleagues; Customers, Community and Charity.
Colleagues are at the heart of our company’s success and we aim to create a great working environment at Colt. By living our values we
have a diverse, motivated and driven workforce who achieve more for themselves, those around them, and the business as a whole.
Assisting our customers is always at the forefront of our mind. We help both our customers and suppliers reduce their impact on the environmentby creating more environmentally friendly, energy efficient technology service alternatives.
Our community is also crucial in meeting our corporate social responsibility targets where we work hard to ensure our sustainable activities
help to make Colt an energy efficient company.
Finally, being charitable is also a vital part of being a ‘Coltie’. Every Colt employee is entitled to two paid volunteering days outside of their
annual leave and we encourage all our employees to get involved with local charities to spread the Colt values.
Our offices
We have Colt offices across 3 continents and in 21 countries – Austria, Belgium, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, India, Italy,
Japan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, USA and UK.
We have over 5000 employees with 16 languages spoken.