Com Hem

Com Hem

Type	Private
Industry	Telecommunications
Founded	1983
Founder(s)	Televerket
Headquarters	Stockholm, Sweden
Area served	Countrywide
Key people	Tomas Franzén, CEO
Services	Television, Telecommunications
Revenue	SEK 3531,9M FY2007
Owner(s)	BC Partners
Employees	700 (2008)
Website	www.comhem.se

Com Hem AB of Sweden, supplies triple play services that include cable tv, digital television, broadband, telephony and HDTV.

Founded in 1983 as Televerket Kabel-TV as part of the former state-owned Televerket, the company has been successively named Svenska Kabel-TV AB and Telia InfoMedia TeleVision AB, before becoming 'Com Hem' (a play with the Swedish phrase "Kom hem" = Come Home).

Today the company has nearly 62 different TV channels available to its customers. Digital TV was introduced in 1997. A broadband service that uses the company's proprietary cable network was launched in 1999. In 2004 IP telephony was introduced and the company became Sweden's first nationwide triple play operator.^{[citation needed]} Com Hem now reach one third of Sweden's households.^{[citation needed]}

All the households connected to the Com Hem cable network have access to broadband services, services for fixed telephony (VoIP) and a wide range of TV programs. Com Hem also provides interactive services that facilitate management, communication and maintenance for property owners.^[specify]

The company has around 700 employees with offices in Stockholm, Göteborg, Malmö, Västerås and Härnösand. When Televerket was privatized, the company remained as part of Telia, before being bought by private equity firm EQT.^{[citation needed]} Com Hem was acquired by the US venture capital companies The Carlyle Group and Providence Equity Partners, from January 1, 2006. In July 2011, BC Partners acquired Com Hem AB from earlier owners.^[1]

Com Hem has been ranked as the TV brand with the least satisfied customers in Sweden 2007, 2008 and 2009 according to Svenskt Kvalitetsindex, an independent customer survey company. ^[2]

Analog channels

• SVT1
• SVT2
• TV3
• TV4
• Kanal 5
• TV6
• TV4 Plus
• TV8 (upgraded networks only)
• Kanal 9
• MTV
• TV4 Sport
• SVT24
• SVTB
• Kunskapskanalen

The analog package may also include a few local channels, usually an open access channel such as public access channels known as Öppna Kanalen. In areas near Denmark, Norway or Finland, Com Hem usually includes channels from the neighboring countries such as TV Finland, YLE TV1, DR1, TV2 Denmark and NRK1.

Digital channels

	Channel	8 favoriter	Package
1.	SVT1		Small
2.	SVT2		Small
3.	TV3	Yes	Medium
4.	TV4		Small
5.	Kanal 5	Yes	Medium
6.	TV6		Small
7.	TV4 Plus	Yes	Medium
8.	TV8	Yes	Medium
9.	Kanal 9	Yes	Medium
10.	Eurosport	Yes	Medium
11.	PPV Nu - (information about pay-per-view)
20.	Com Hem-kanalen
36.	BBC Knowledge	Yes	Large
37.	BBC HD	Yes	Large/HDTV
38.	History Channel HD	Yes	Large/HDTV
39.	National Geographic Wild	Yes	Large
40.	TV7	Yes	Medium
41.	Animal Planet	Yes	Medium
42.	Axess TV		Small
43.	BBC Entertainment	Yes	Medium
44.	Discovery Channel	Yes	Medium
45.	Discovery World	Yes	Large
46.	Discovery Science	Yes	Large
47.	TLC	Yes	Large
48.	Discovery HD	Yes	HDTV
49.	Kanal 10	Yes	No
50.	MTV	Yes	Medium
51.	MTV Two	Yes	Large
52.	Mezzo	Yes	Large
53.	National Geographic Channel	Yes	Large
54.	Playboy TV	Yes	Large
55.	Star!	Yes	Medium
56.	Travel Channel	Yes	Large
57.	TV400	Yes	Medium
58.	National Geographic Channel HD	Yes	HDTV
59.	VH1	Yes	Medium
60.	Viasat Nature/Crime	Yes	Medium
61.	Viasat History	Yes	Medium
62.	Comedy Central	Yes	Medium
63.	TV4 Fakta	Yes	Large
64.	TV4 Guld	Yes	Medium
65.	TV4 Komedi	Yes	Medium
66.	SVT HD		Small
67.	Silver HD	Yes	HDTV
68.	Fashion TV	Yes	No
69.	Yacht & Sail	Yes	No
70.	TV4 Science Fiction	Yes	Large
71.	Zone Reality	Yes	No
72.	TV4 HD	Yes	Large/HDTV
73.	BBC Lifestyle	Yes	Large
74.	ZTV	Yes	Medium
75.	Canal+ Sport HD	No	Canal+
76.	Canal+ Sport 1	No	Canal+
77.	Canal+ Sport 2	No	Canal+
79.	Canal+ First	No	Canal+
80.	Canal+ Hits	No	Canal+
81.	Canal+ Action	No	Canal+
82.	Canal+ Comedy	No	Canal+
83.	Canal+ Drama	No	Canal+
84.	Canal+ Film HD	No	Canal+
85.	TV1000	No	TV1000
86.	TV1000 Plus One	No	TV1000
87.	TV1000 Family	No	TV1000
88.	TV1000 Action	No	TV1000
89.	TV1000 Nordic	No	TV1000
90.	TV1000 Classic	No	TV1000
91.	TV1000 Drama	No	TV1000
92.	Showtime	Yes	No
93.	TCM	Yes	Medium
94.	TV4 Film	Yes	Medium
95.	Silver	Yes	Large
96.	Viasat Explorer	Yes	Large
97.	TV1000 HD	No	TV1000
98.	SF-Kanalen	No	Canal+
99.	Hustler TV	No	No
100.	TV4 Sport	Yes	Medium
101.	Extreme Sports Channel	Yes	Large
102.	Eurosport HD	Yes	HDTV
103.	Eurosport 2	Yes	Medium
104.	ESPN Classic	Yes	Large
105.	Viasat Sport	No	Viasat Sport
106.	Viasat Fotboll	No	Viasat Sport
107.	Viasat Motor	No	Viasat Sport
108.	Motors TV	Yes	Large
109.	Viasat Golf	No	No
110.	ESPN America	Yes	No
111.	Viasat Sport HD	No	Viasat Sport
113.	Viasat Hockey	No	Viasat Sport
120.	CNN International	Yes	Medium
121.	BBC World News	Yes	Large
122.	CNBC Europe	Yes	Large
125.	Kunskapskanalen		Small
126.	Sky News International	Yes	Large
128.	Al Jazeera English	Yes	Large
150.	Cartoon Network	Yes	Medium
152.	Nickelodeon	Yes	Medium
153.	SVTB/SVT24		Small
154.	Disney Channel	Yes	Large
155.	Disney XD	Yes	Large
156.	Disney Junior	Yes	Medium
170.	DR1	Yes	No
171.	NRK1	Yes	No
172.	TV Finland	Yes	No
174.	HRT1	Yes	No
175.	Pink Plus	No	No
176.	Channel One Russia Worldwide	No	No
177.	Rai Uno	Yes	No
178.	TV Chile	No	No
179.	TVP Polonia	Yes	No
180.	TV5MONDE	Yes	No
181.	TVE Internacional	Yes	No
182.	ZDF	Yes	No
183.	Al Jazeera Arabic	Yes	No
184.	MBC Europe	Yes	No
185.	Show TV	Yes	No
186.	TRT Türk	Yes	No
187.	Irib 2	Yes	No
200.	ART Movies	Yes	No
201.	LBC Europe	Yes	No
202.	IRINN	Yes	No
206.	RTS Sat	Yes	No
207.	RTK	Yes	No
208.	OBN	Yes	No
209.	TV Montenegro RTCG	Yes	No
210.	3sat	Yes	No
211.	Canal 24 Horas	Yes	No
212.	Canal de las Estrellas	Yes	No
213.	Rai Due	Yes	No
214.	RTP Internacional	Yes	No
215.	France 2	Yes	No
216.	Duna TV	Yes	No
217.	m2	Yes	No
218.	ERT International	Yes	No
219.	ProTV International	Yes	No
220.	Polsat 2 International	Yes	No
221.	Hayat	No	No

References

1. ^ "Om Com Hem" (in Swedish). Com Hem. http://www.comhem.se/portal/comhem/comhem_start. Retrieved 2008-09-12. 
2. ^ "SKI" (in Swedish). SKI. http://www.kvalitetsindex.se/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=168. Retrieved 2009-11-04. 

See also

• List of Swedish television channels

External links

• Official Com Hem website
• The Carlyle Group website
• Comhem in .TEL domain for mobile phone browsers website