UPC Broadband

Acquisitions

In 2005, Liberty Global 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 UPC Telemach for EUR71 million. In 2007 UPC Telemach also bought 66.7% of Ljubljanski kabel (major competition in Ljubljana) and grew its market share to 40% in Slovenia.

Former UPC operations

UPC sold French Citecable operations in France in 1996, in Germany in 1997 and Spain and Portugal in 1998.

In 2002, UPC sold their 47% ownership interest in Tevel Israel International Communications Ltd.

In 1999, UPC purchased approximately 25% of Primacom cable company in Germany. In April 2000 UPC announced that will buy EWT/TSS Group and in 2001 EWT/TSS merged with Primacom. In 2006 UPC sold their remaining shares in company.

In 2007, UPC sold their 50% shares in Melita telecommunications company in Malta to GMT Communications Partners.

UPC Norway was bought by Candover Investments for $542 million and changed the name to Get AS.

UPC France was sold for $1.56 billion, in 2006, to Noos (Ypso Holding) before being integrated into Numericable and then SFR in 2016.

UPC Sweden was sold in April 2006 for $427 million to Com Hem.

In 1997 the company started offering broadband internet and landline telephony in the Netherlands. These services have also been extended to other countries under the chello brand for internet services and Priority Telecom for telephony and later for b2b services. In 2007 the company replaced the chello brand with UPC for internet services.

UPC operated several television channels under the UPCtv brand, and later after the acquisition of Zone Vision merged with it under the Zone Media brand and later rebranded as Chello Zone, part of Chellomedia. Chellomedia was sold in 2014 to AMC Networks and renamed as AMC Networks International.