Liberty Global Europe
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| Liberty Global Inc. | |
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| Image:Liberty Global.gif | |
| Type | |
| Founded | |
| Headquarters | Meridian, CO USA Schiphol-Rijk, Netherlands Europe-UPC Broadband Division, Chellomedia Division London, United Kingdom Europe-Chellomedia Division |
| Key people | John C. Malone - Chairman of the Board Michael T. Fries - President and CEO |
| Industry | Media |
| Products | Video, telephone, and broadband Internet services |
| Revenue | Revenue: $2.1 billion for the 3 months ended March 31, 2007, $6.5 billion for the 12 months ended December 31, 2006 |
| Employees | 20,500 |
| Website | [1]
operations = Europe, Asia Pacific, The Americas |
Liberty Global Europe (formerly UGC Europe, and previously United Pan-Europe Communications or UPC, and still usually primarily trading under that brand) is Europe's biggest cable TV provider. It also provides internet access, telephony and other related services. It is an operation (100% ownership since early 2004) of the US-based company Liberty Global (arose in June 2005 through a merger of UnitedGlobalCom (UGC) with Liberty Media International), which is the world's leading Cable TV provider. Liberty Global is listed on NASDAQ, but is ultimately controlled by John C. Malone. Liberty Global is based at Meridian, Colorado.
It serves about 6.6 million analogue subscribers in 12 countries of Europe, and is the absolutely dominant provider in countries like the Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary and Czech Republic.
In Ireland, UPC have approximately 1,769,292 people or 41.7%, [1][2]
In 2005, UGC Europe bought the Romanian communications company Astral Telecom for $420 million, the Swiss communications company cablecom for CHF2.8 billion, and the Slovenian communications company Telemach for EUR71 million. In 2007 Telemach also bought 66.7%[3] of Ljubljanski kabel (major competition in Ljubljana) and grew its market share to 40% in Slovenia.
Its business is divided into two units:
- UPC Broadband (Dutch language) (TV, telephony, internet access (see also chello), satellite TV)
- Chellomedia (broadband content, interactive services etc.)
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[edit] References
- ^ NTL report approximate customer number in Ireland, for Chorus and NTL
- ^ Irish Central Statistics Office figures for average number of persons per household
- ^ http://www.delo.si/index.php?sv_path=41,36,217954
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