It all started back in 1988 when a bank manager in Umea (a city in northern Sweden) had a problem. He needed a conference telephone installed in the bank’s new offices, and despite testing all the systems on the market wasn’t at all satisfied. The main problem was that the sound was ’cut’ which meant you had to wait for each other to talk in turn. This made a conversation difficult and the whole experience frustrating.

The bank manager asked an electrical consultant working at the new offices if he could find a good conference telephone solution. The consultant was Peter Renkel, who is today the Managing Director of Konftel. Renkel searched the market and quickly concluded that there was no quality solution available.

Renkel had a friend called John-Erik Eriksson, who is today the Acoustic Designer at Konftel. In 1998 Peter and John-Erik started a small company as a hobby building sound systems in assembly halls and other difficult sound environments in their spare time.

Is it alright if we try and build a conference telephone system? asked Peter Renkel. The rest, as they say, is history. The bank manager said yes and was delighted with the results. He used the system constantly and pretty soon Renkel started to get enquiries about building more systems. The Swedish government telecommunications agency Televerket was also interested. Two local businessmen backed the project and a short time afterwards Konftel was founded.

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