UPC Broadband
UPC Broadband offers residential customers the value and choice of triple play services, combining television (basic analogue and digital), Internet and telephony. In addition, UPC Broadband offers a digital satellite service in Central Europe. UPC Broadband has over eight million customers in 11 countries.
Basic analogue cable is UPC Broadband's traditional service and with more than 6.6 million basic analogue cable subscribers at the end of Q2 2003, more than 65% of the 11 million homes in UPC Broadband's footprint subscribed to this service. UPC Broadband aims to sell additional services to homes within the UPC Broadband footprint and many customers for UPC Broadband's New Services (digital, Internet and telephony) will be existing analogue television subscribers. Subscribers to UPC Broadband's New Services grew by 20% during 2002. More than one million subscribers across Europe now subscribe to a New Service offered by UPC Broadband on a total of eight million customers for UPC Broadband's services. UPC Broadband ended Q2 2003 with 459,000 telephony subscribers in six countries. UPC Broadband had 723,000 broadband internet subscribers in ten countries, being the largest broadband internet provider via cable in Europe. At the end of Q2 2003, UPC Broadband had 129,000 digital television customers in five countries, the Netherlands, France, Austria, Norway and Sweden.