The story
The company was founded in 1987 and started building analog PSTN modems. In 1990 the company produces PCMCIA modems.
By the mid 1990s the company was focusing on making multi function PC Card communication adapters such as PSTN+GSM (data over GSM), then 3in1 PSTN+GSM+ISDN, then 4in1 PSTN+GSM+ISDN+Ethernet adaptors.
In the 2000s the group moved into the development and manufacture of mobile computing devices such as high-speed data transmission devices for wired and wireless, PSTN, ISDN, Local area network (Ethernet), GSM, GPRS, ADSL devices. It also provided video security devices and Internet appliances hardware and non-PC internet terminals branded as atMax and @max. Most of the mobile products were sold as Original equipment manufacturer (OEM) provider for other companies such as Toshiba France and Spain, Sony ITE Europe, IBM, Apple Europe, RFI Germany, and Anycom.
In 2001 some employees of the industrial modules department left to create Telecom Design. In 2003, the Video security division was sold to the company Atral.
In 2005 the COM One group closed and was delisted from the stock exchange. The brand was bought by Baracoda company to focus it on Bluetooth end user products. Under Baracoda's ownership Com One launched hardware to listen internet radios over Wi-Fi in 2007.
By 2008 the company's web sites (www.com1.fr and com-one.biz) were closed and the brand was discontinued.
From Wikipedia’s article on Com One group, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3