• Revenue: 1.0 billion (annualized results for the three months ended September 30, 2009)
• 2.0 million homes passed
• 1.6 million video subscribers, of which 362,000 are digital cable subscribers
  • Digital video services include DVR, HD and VOD
• 485,000 broadband internet subscribers
  • Internet speeds range up to 100 Mbps
• 305,000 telephony subscribers
  

as of September 30, 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 September 30, 2009.  Cablecom also offers mobile voice services through a pre-paid offering.

Cablecom’s customers are located in three regional clusters, including the major cities of Bern, Zurich, Lausanne, and Geneva. Its nationwide network is 72% upgraded to two-way capability, with 77% 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 approximately 40 video channels and approximately 45 radio channels. For its digital cable customers, Cablecom offers a package of over 100 video channels, over 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. Through its digital service, Cablecom also offers video on demand services (VOD), DVR & HD-DVR time-shifting functionality, as well as HD television channels.

Internet

Cablecom offers eight tiers of broadband internet service with download speeds ranging from 250 Kbps to 25 Mbps. In mid-2009, Cablecom plans to launch UPC Fiber Power in Zurich, an ultra high-speed internet service with download speeds of up to 120 Mbps, utilizing the EuroDOCSIS 3.0 platform.

Voice

Cablecom offers multi-feature digital telephony via VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) to over 80% 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, 2008, unless otherwise stated.

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