• Revenue: $338.4 million (annualized results for the three months ended September 30, 2009)
• 1.2 million homes passed
• 800,000 video subscribers, of which 324,000 are digital cable and DTH subscribers
  • Digital video services include DVR and HD
• 325,000 broadband internet subscribers
  • Internetspeeds range up to 120 Mbps
• 245,000 telephony subscribers
  

as of September 30, 2009

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UPC Hungary is the largest cable television operator in Hungary. UPC Hungary provides analog & digital video, broadband internet, and traditional circuit-switched & digital telephony services (VoIP) to 905,000 customers as of September 30, 2009. UPC Hungary is the largest of Liberty Global’s operations in Central and Eastern Europe in terms of revenue.

UPC Hungary’s customers are located in 18 major Hungarian cities and towns and their surrounding areas, including the capital city of Budapest. Its network is 97% upgraded to two-way capability, with 65% of its cable homes served by a network with a bandwidth of at least 750 Mhz.

UPC Hungary also offers business customers located in its service areas a variety of internet and telephony packages, managed leased lines, and virtual private network services primarily to its small office at home (SOHO) customers and small to medium size business customers.

Video

UPC Hungary provides analog and digital video services. An analog cable subscriber receives up to 55 channels and one premium movie package, depending on location. In April 2008, UPC Hungary launched digital programming services and by year end 2008, digital programming services were available to 879,000 homes passed. UPC Hungary offers a digital package of up to 73 channels (including the channels in its analog service), plus premium packages and HD programming. Through its digital service, UPC Hungary also offers DVR and HD-DVR time-shifting capabilities.

UPC Hungary also offers UPC Direct, a digital satellite television service that provides over 150 coded and free to air TV channels and approximately 30 radio stations in digital quality.

Internet

UPC Hungary offers multiple tiers of broadband internet service with download speeds ranging from 1 Mbps to 120 Mbps. On July 1, 2009, UPC Hungary announced the commercial launch of its next generation ultra fast internet over cable, UPC Fiber Power, with speeds up to 120 Mbps. Following a gradual deployment, over one million homes will be enabled to benefit from connections that are five times faster than ADSL’s maximum speed, by the end of this year. UPC Hungary provides broadband internet services to subscribers in 18 cities, including Budapest.

Voice

UPC Hungary offers fixed-line voice with traditional circuit-switched telephony, as well as feature-rich digital telephony via VoIP (Voice of Internet Protocol) over its two-way capable network throughout Hungary.

¹ Digital penetration: Digital penetration is calculated by dividing our digital cable subscribers by the sum of our analog cable and digital cable subscribers. As of period end.

² Internet penetration: Internet penetration is calculated by dividing our internet subscribers by internet homes serviceable. As of period end.

³ Voice penetration: Voice penetration is calculated by dividing our voice subscribers by the voice homes serviceable. As of period end.

Information above is presented as of December 31, 2008, unless otherwise stated.

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