UPC Romania

Infobox_Company
company_name = UPC Romania
company_
company_type = Subsidiary of Liberty Global
company_slogan = Simple for Everybody
foundation = 1992 as Astral
location = Bucharest, Romania
key_people = Jack Mikaloff CEO
num_employees = 2,300 (2005)
revenue = profit €66.90 million (2006)
industry = Telecommunications
products = Fixed-line telephony,
Internet services, Cable TV
homepage = [http://www.upc.ro www.upc.ro]

UPC Romania is Romania's second-largest telecommunications company, a cable television network, internet service provider and telephone operator.

UPC Romania operates on the Romanian market since 1992. In 2005, UPC Romania acquired Astral Telecom (a process that ended on October 1st 2006)

Founded in Cluj-Napoca as "Astral Telecom S.A." in 1993, it is currently the owner largest cable network in Romania, is also one of the most important Romanian ISPs, having about 900,000 customers (2005) and generating 25% of the web traffic in Romania.

Astral was rebranded in 2003 by Brandient, when it launched a new marketing image as well as the motto "Creat să evolueze" ("Created to evolve" in Romanian).

In 2005, Astral Telecom S.A. was bought for $420 million by UGC Europe and renamed UPC-Astral. At that time, UPC-Astral had 1,28 million customers for its TV cable service, 50,000 for the broadband (cable) Internet service, and 30,000 for the phone-over-TV-cable service. [http://www.9am.ro/stiri-revista-presei/Business/21042/Duetul-cablistilor-in-pas-de-monopol] ro icon

EPG

Beside the basis package, it include two other additional subscriptions.

Internet Subscriptions

Home Usage:

"Small": 1Mbit/s Downstream/256kbit/s Upstream for 25 lei.

"Medium": 10Mbit/s Downstream/1Mbit/s Upstream for 35 lei.

"Large": 20Mbit/s Downstream/2Mbit/s Upstream for 60 lei. [ [http://www.upc.ro/internet/ UPC Romania - Internet - Internet Produse ] ]

UPC is maybe the only Romanian ISP that limits its bandwidth. It should be noted that this is not mentioned on their website. Full-time p2p restrictions are applied.