Liberty Global
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| Type | Public (NASDAQ: LBTYA) |
| Founded | 2005 |
| Headquarters | Meridian, Colorado, 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, Telecommunications |
| Products | Television, broadband internet, cable television, telephone, direct broadcast satellite |
| 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 | www.lgi.com |
Liberty Global (NASDAQ: LBTYA) is an international media company and one of the largest broadband providers outside the United States of America. The company is born from a fusion of Liberty Media and UGC (UnitedGlobalCom).
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, 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 Denver, 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 viewers 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 (TV, telephony, internet access (see also chello), satellite TV)
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- UPC Ireland
- UPC Romania
- UPC Austria
- UPC Netherlands
- UPC Czech Republic
- UPC Hungary
- Chellomedia (27 owned and operated TV channels, and on-demand services, web and ITV content.)
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