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EU-hosted, non-EU parentTelephony & VoIPHeadquarters: AT

Drei Austria: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Drei is the Austrian mobile network operator of the Hutchison group. It sells mobile telephony and mobile internet under the Drei brand and, for consumers, telephony, internet and TV products. Its business offer ranges from tariffs for small businesses and self-employed people to private networks, IoT and mobile device management. It also sells wholesale services such as MVNO access. The services are delivered as network connectivity and managed telecom contracts rather than as software that the customer runs.

Hutchison Drei Austria GmbH is registered in Vienna and is wholly owned by Hutchison Drei Austria Holdings GmbH. This is a subsidiary of CK Hutchison Holdings in Hong Kong. Because the ultimate parent sits outside the EU, the ownership question matters for jurisdiction and control for European organisations. The public pages do not state where customer data is hosted, so customers with sensitive traffic should ask for hosting locations and data-transfer terms before contracting.

Sovereignty score
71 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    EU-only hosting
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-360
    Key management with a European vendor
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-655
    Closed source, runtime with the vendor

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 11, 2026
Headquarters
AT (EU)Verified by hand
Ultimate parent company
HKVerified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
NoVendor-stated
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Type
Product
Website

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Drei Austria

The European alternatives to Drei Austria come from our knowledge base of over 6,800 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Drei Austria

Drei Austria is headquartered in AT and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data. The ultimate owner is based in HK. Foreign control undermines part of the certainty a European headquarters offers.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so Drei Austria scores best on data residency.

Drei Austria is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Drei Austria together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Drei Austria?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Drei Austria include A1 Telekom Austria, Adversus and Auerswald. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Drei Austria?

Our list of EU alternatives to Drei Austria is mostly commercial options. Browse the category on the map for open-source choices.

Is Drei Austria GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Drei Austria is headquartered in AT (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Drei Austria an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

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Compliance evidence

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