- UPC Broadband
Infobox Company
company_name = UPC Broadband
Liberty Global, Inc.
company_
company_type =Private company
foundation = as "UnitedPhilips Cable",Netherlands
location =
key_people = President and Chief Operating Officer of UPC Broadband, Gene M. Musselman
area_served =Ireland ,Romania ,Poland ,Netherlands ,Czech Republic ,Austria ,Switzerland ,Slovakia ,Belgium ,Slovenia ,Hungary
industry = Communications
products =Cable television , communications
revenue =
operating_income =
net_income =
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parent = Liberty Global, Inc.
subsid =
homepage = [http://www.lgi.com/ Liberty Global] , [http://www.upc.nl/ UPC Netherlands]
footnotes =UPC Broadband is a Pan-European Communications company owned by
Liberty Global and is active in several European countries providing bundled cable television, internet and telephone services.UPC was founded in the
Netherlands , originally as "UnitedPhilips Cable" and later "Pan-Europe Communications", before being bought out byLiberty Global . UPC serves about 6.6 million analogue cable television subscribers in 12 countries of Europe, and is the absolutely dominant provider in countries like theNetherlands ,Ireland ,Poland ,Switzerland ,Austria ,Slovakia ,Hungary andCzech Republic . UPC has previously had operations inFrance ,Sweden andNorway but these business units have been sold off.In Ireland, UPC have approximately 1,769,292 customers or 41.7%, [ [http://www.ntl.ie/index.php?PageID=1058 NTL report approximate customer number in Ireland, for Chorus and NTL] ] [ [http://www.cso.ie/statistics/size_of_households.htm Irish Central Statistics Office figures for average number of persons per household] ]
In
2005 , Liberty Global Europe bought theRomania n communications companyAstral Telecom for $420 million, theSwiss communications companyCablecom for CHF2.8 billion, and theSlovenia n communications companyUPC Telemach for EUR71 million. In2007 UPC Telemach also bought 66.7% [http://www.delo.si/index.php?sv_path=41,36,217954] ofLjubljanski kabel (major competition inLjubljana ) and grew its market share to 40% inSlovenia .Liberty Global's European operations is divided into two business units,
UPC Broadband andChello , orChellomedia ; which is also a very large media provider on the European continent.Companies in the UPC unit:
*Cablecom Switzerland
*UPC Belgium/Telenet
*UPC Austria
*UPC Czech Republic
*UPC Hungary
*UPC Ireland
*UPC Netherlands
*UPC Poland
*UPC Romania
*UPC Broadband Slovakia
*UPC Telemach SloveniaReferences
External links
* [http://www.lgi.com/ Liberty Global Corporate Website]
* [http://www.upc.ie/ UPC Ireland]
* [http://www.upc.ro/ UPC Romania]
* [http://www.upc.at/ UPC Austria]
* [http://www.upc.nl/ UPC Netherlands]
* [http://www.upc.cz/ UPC Czech Republic]
* [http://www.upc.sk/ UPC Slovakia]
* [http://www.upc.hu/ UPC Hungary]
* [http://www.upc.si/ UPC Telemach Slovenia]
* [http://www.upc.pl/ UPC Poland]
* [http://www.telenet.be/ UPC Belgium/Telenet]
* [http://www.cablecom.ch/ Cablecom Switzerland]
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