• Revenue: $1.0 billion for the 12 months ended December 31, 2009
• 2.0 million homes passed
• 1.5 million video subscribers, of which 379,000 are digital cable subscribers
  • Digital video services include DVR, HD and VoD
• 487,000 broadband internet subscribers
  • Internet speeds range up to 100 Mbps
• 304,000 telephony subscribers
  

as of December 31, 2009

Cablecom

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Switzerland

Cablecom, a UPC Broadband operation, is the largest cable television operator in Switzerland. Cablecom provides video, broadband internet, and traditional circuit-switched & digital (VoIP) telephony services to 1.6 million customers as of December 31, 2009.  Cablecom also offers mobile voice services through a pre-paid offering.

Cablecom’s customers are located in 24 of the 26 member states (Cantons) of Switzerland, including the major cities of Bern, the capital city, Zurich, Lausanne, and Geneva. Its nationwide network is 83% upgraded to two-way capability, with 83% of its cable homes passed served by a network with a bandwidth of at least 650 MHz.

Video

For its analog cable customers, Cablecom offers a basic service of 36 video channels and 45 radio channels. For its digital cable customers, Cablecom offers a package of over 115 video channels and 100 radio channels (including the channels in its analog service) and a range of additional pay television programming in a variety of foreign language program packages and premium channel packages. Through its digital service, Cablecom also offers video on demand services (VoD), DVR & HD-DVR time-shifting functionality, as well as HD programming.

Internet

Cablecom offers eight tiers of broadband internet service with download speeds ranging from 250 Kbps to 100 Mbps. In September 2009, Cablecom launched Fiber Power in Zurich, its next-generation broadband internet service with download speeds of up to 100+ Mbps, utilizing DOCSIS 3.0 technology. The FiberPower service is available to 30% of its two-way homes passed.

Voice

Cablecom offers multi-feature digital telephony via VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) to 83% of its homes passed.
Cablecom also offers a pre-paid mobile service to all customers in Switzerland.

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, 2009, unless otherwise stated.

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