Introducing IPA

Pioneers by Conviction

With the company founded by Kurt Bodinger in 2000, IP Austria Communication became the first Austrian company to launch a development project for a packet-switched telephone network. Just two years later, the company entered the market and successfully implemented its first projects.

IP Austria Communications

25 Years of Innovation & Growth – 2000 to 2025

2000
Founding & Launch Phase
Founding of IPA Communications with 5 employees at Anton-Baumgartnerstraße 125, 1230 Vienna

Always at the pulse of the times

The entire IP Austria Communication team, made up of many specialists and experts from IT and telecommunications, knows how to drive processes and developments forward and repeatedly take a market-leading role.

Kurt Bodinger

Kurt Bodinger

Founder

He started in telecommunications in 1976. Beginning as a young technician and later working in marketing and sales, he founded IP Austria in 2000, Austria’s first IP provider.

Richard Polasek

Richard Polasek

Managing Director

Formerly a developer at Siemens in telephone-system development, he soon moved to the mobile communications division as development manager and later worked as a database specialist at Bet and Win. Today he is CEO of IP Austria.