Com Hem was a Swedish brand owned by Tele2 AB[1] which supplied Triple Play services that included cable television, broadband internet and fixed-line telephone.
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| Company type | Aktiebolag |
|---|---|
| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Founded | 1983 |
| Founder | Televerket |
| Fate | Merged into Tele2 in 2018–2019; discontinued as a brand as of April 2021 |
| Successor | Tele2 |
| Headquarters | Stockholm, Sweden |
Area served | Countrywide |
Key people | Anders Nilsson, CEO |
| Services | Cable television Broadband internet Fixed-line telephone MVNO (via Com Hem Mobil and Penny) |
| Revenue |  SEK 4.91 billion (2016) |
| SEK 1.48 billion (2016) | |
Number of employees | 993 (2016) |
| Parent | Kinnevik (18,5%) Public since 17 June 2014 |
| Subsidiaries | Boxer TV Access |
| Website | comhem |
Founded in 1983 as Televerket Kabel-TV as part of the former state-owned Televerket, the company was successively named Svenska Kabel-TV AB and Telia InfoMedia TeleVision AB, before becoming 'Com Hem' (a play on the Swedish phrase Kom hem, "come home") in 1999. In 2003, Telia had to sell Com Hem to EQT AB to satisfy EU competition requirements as a result of its merger with Sonera of Finland that same year.[2]
In 2021 the company had 135 TV channels available. Digital TV was introduced in 1997. A broadband service that used the company's proprietary cable network was launched in 1999. In 2004 VoIP telephone was introduced, and the company became Sweden's first nationwide triple play service provider.
All households connected to the Com Hem Cable Network had access to broadband Internet services, services, fixed-line telephony and a wide range of TV channels. Com Hem also provided interactive services that facilitated management, communication and maintenance for property owners.
The company had around 1000 employees, with offices in Stockholm, Gothenburg, Malmö, Västerås, Härnösand, Sundsvall and Örnsköldsvik.
In 2011, EQT sold the company to BC Partners. Com Hem held its initial public offering (IPO) on 17 June 2014 and became listed on Stockholm Stock Exchange. On 27 April 2017 Kinnevik acquired approximately 18.5% of the stock and became Com Hem's largest stock holder. Com Hem also operated mobile services as an MVNO using its own brand and since early-2020, also with an online-only brand called Penny (managed by Tele2 since 2021) whose operations are modelled after Google Fi Wireless, and is also a broadband flanker brand using Com Hem/Tele2's fixed-line infrastructure.[3] Com Hem's mobile services utilised the Tele2 (SUNAB and Net4Mobility) infrastructure in 2G GSM, 3G UMTS and 4G LTE.
Com Hem had been ranked as the TV brand with the least satisfied customers in Sweden in 2007, 2008 and 2009 according to Svenskt Kvalitetsindex, an independent customer survey company.[citation needed] It has since almost reached the top of the ranking with the most satisfied customers, according to the same source.[4][5] Analogue channels were withdrawn from the cable television network on 8 September 2020.[citation needed]
On 27 April 2021, the owner Tele2 discontinued the use of the Com Hem brand, while continuing to provide the same services under its own brand.[6]
Analogue channels - Withdrawn
edit- NFL Network
- Animal Planet
- Travel Escape (TV channel)
- The Learning Channel
- W Network
- History Channel
- Hunan Television
- SVT1
- SVT2
- TV3
- TV4
- Kanal 5
- TV6
- TV7
- TV8
- Kanal 9
- TV10
- Kanal 11
- TV12
- MTV
- TV4 Sport
- SVT24
- SVTB
- Love Nature
- CNN International
- Golf Channel
- Makeful
- CNBC
- WWE Network
- Fashion TV
- SET International
- DW-TV
- CTi International
- SAB TV
- Kunskapskanalen
The analogue package could also include a few local channels, usually an open access channel such as public access channels known as Öppna Kanalen (sv). In areas near Denmark, Norway or Finland, Com Hem usually included channels from the neighboring countries such as TV Finland, YLE TV1, DR1, TV2 Denmark and NRK1.
Digital channels
edit| Channel | 8 favorites | Package | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | SVT1 | Small | |
| 2. | SVT2 | Small | |
| 3. | TV3 | Yes | Medium |
| 4. | TV4 | Small | |
| 5. | Kanal 5 | Yes | Medium |
| 6. | TV6 | Small | |
| 7. | TV4 Plus | Yes | Medium |
| 8. | TV8 | Yes | Medium |
| 9. | Kanal 9 | Yes | Medium |
| 10. | Eurosport | Yes | Medium |
| 11. | TV10 | ||
| 12. | Kanal 11 | ||
| 13. | TV12 | ||
| 14. | Kanal 10 | ||
| 15. | Kanal Global | ||
| 16. | Horse1 | ||
| 17. | Lifestyle TV | ||
| 18. | Öppna Kanalen | ||
| 19. | TVins | ||
| 20. | Com Hem-kanalen | ||
| 36. | BBC Knowledge | Yes | Large |
| 37. | BBC HD | Yes | Large/HDTV |
| 38. | History Channel HD | Yes | Large/HDTV |
| 39. | Nat Geo Wild | Yes | Large |
| 40. | TV7 | Yes | Medium |
| 41. | Animal Planet | Yes | Medium |
| 42. | Axess TV | Small | |
| 43. | BBC Entertainment | Yes | Medium |
| 44. | Discovery Channel | Yes | Medium |
| 45. | Discovery World | Yes | Large |
| 46. | Discovery Science | Yes | Large |
| 47. | TLC | Yes | Large |
| 48. | Discovery HD | Yes | HDTV |
| 49. | Kanal 10 | Yes | No |
| 50. | MTV | Yes | Medium |
| 51. | MTV Rocks | Yes | Large |
| 52. | Mezzo TV | Yes | Large |
| 53. | National Geographic Channel | Yes | Large |
| 54. | Playboy TV | Yes | Large |
| 55. | Star! | Yes | Medium |
| 56. | Travel Channel | Yes | Large |
| 57. | TNT | Yes | Medium |
| 58. | National Geographic Channel HD | Yes | HDTV |
| 59. | VH1 | Yes | Medium |
| 60. | Viasat Nature/Crime | Yes | Medium |
| 61. | Viasat History | Yes | Medium |
| 62. | Comedy Central | Yes | Medium |
| 63. | TV4 Fakta | Yes | Large |
| 64. | TV4 Guld | Yes | Medium |
| 65. | TV4 Komedi | Yes | Medium |
| 66. | SVT HD | Small | |
| 67. | Silver HD | Yes | HDTV |
| 68. | FashionTV | Yes | No |
| 69. | Yacht & Sail | Yes | No |
| 70. | TV4 Fakta XL | Yes | Large |
| 71. | CBS Reality | Yes | No |
| 72. | TV4 HD | Yes | Large/HDTV |
| 73. | BBC Lifestyle | Yes | Large |
| 74. | Sjuan | Yes | Medium |
| 75. | C More Sport | No | Canal |
| 76. | C More Fotboll | No | Canal |
| 77. | C More Hockey | No | Canal |
| 79. | C More First | No | Canal |
| 80. | C More Hits | No | Canal |
| 81. | C More Action | No | Canal |
| 82. | C More Series | No | Canal |
| 83. | C More Emotion | No | Canal |
| 84. | C More Live | No | Canal |
| 85. | Viasat Film | No | TV1000 |
| 86. | Viasat Film Comedy | No | TV1000 |
| 87. | Viasat Film Family | No | TV1000 |
| 88. | Viasat Film Action | No | TV1000 |
| 89. | AMC | No | |
| 90. | Viasat Film Classic | No | TV1000 |
| 91. | Viasat Film Drama | No | TV1000 |
| 92. | Showtime | Yes | No |
| 93. | TCM | Yes | Medium |
| 94. | TV4 Film | Yes | Medium |
| 95. | Silver | Yes | Large |
| 96. | Viasat Explorer | Yes | Large |
| 97. | Sundance Channel | No | |
| 98. | SF-kanalen | No | Canal |
| 99. | Hustler TV | No | No |
| 100. | Viasat Sport | Yes | Medium |
| 101. | Extreme Sports Channel | Yes | Large |
| 102. | Eurosport HD | Yes | HDTV |
| 103. | TV4 Sport Xtra | Yes | Medium |
| 104. | ESPN Classic | Yes | Large |
| 105. | Viasat Fotboll | No | Viasat Sport |
| 106. | Viasat Hockey | No | Viasat Sport |
| 107. | Viasat Motor | No | Viasat Sport |
| 108. | Motors TV | Yes | Large |
| 109. | Viasat Golf | No | No |
| 110. | Fuel TV | Yes | No |
| 111. | Viasat Sport HD | No | Viasat Sport |
| 113. | C More Tennis | No | |
| 114. | C More Extreme | ||
| 115. | Viasat Ticket | ||
| 119. | SVT24 | ||
| 120. | CNN International | Yes | Medium |
| 121. | BBC World News | Yes | Large |
| 122. | CNBC Europe | Yes | Large |
| 123. | Bloomberg TV | ||
| 124. | euronews | ||
| 125. | Kunskapskanalen | Small | |
| 126. | Sky News International | Yes | Large |
| 127. | Channel NewsAsia | Large | |
| 128. | Al Jazeera English | Yes | Large |
| 129. | RT | ||
| 150. | Cartoon Network | Yes | Medium |
| 152. | Nickelodeon | Yes | Medium |
| 153. | SVT Barnkanalen | Small | |
| 154. | Disney Channel | Yes | Large |
| 155. | Disney XD | Yes | Large |
| 156. | Disney Junior | Yes | Medium |
| 157 | Nick Jr. Channel | ||
| 158. | C More Kids | ||
| 170. | DR1 | Yes | No |
| 171. | NRK1 | Yes | No |
| 172. | Yle Fem | Yes | No |
| 174. | HRT1 | Yes | No |
| 175. | Pink Plus | No | No |
| 176. | Channel One Russia Worldwide | No | No |
| 177. | DW-TV | Yes | No |
| 178. | TV Chile | No | No |
| 179. | TVP Polonia | Yes | No |
| 180. | TV5MONDE | Yes | No |
| 181. | TVE Internacional | Yes | No |
| 182. | ZDF | Yes | No |
| 183. | Al Jazeera Arabic | Yes | No |
| 184. | MBC Europe | Yes | No |
| 185. | Show TV | Yes | No |
| 186. | TRT Türk | Yes | No |
| 187. | IRIB 2 | Yes | No |
| 200. | ART Movies | Yes | No |
| 201. | LBC Europe | Yes | No |
| 202. | IRINN | Yes | No |
| 206. | RTS Sat | Yes | No |
| 207. | RTK | Yes | No |
| 208. | OBN | Yes | No |
| 209. | TVCG Montenegro | Yes | No |
| 210. | 3sat | Yes | No |
| 211. | Canal 24 Horas | Yes | No |
| 212. | Canal de las Estrellas | Yes | No |
| 213. | Rai Italia | Yes | No |
| 214. | RTP Internacional | Yes | No |
| 215. | France 2 | Yes | No |
| 216. | Duna TV | Yes | No |
| 217. | m2 | Yes | No |
| 218. | NEPIT World | Yes | No |
| 219. | PRO TV Internaţional | Yes | No |
| 220. | Polsat International | Yes | No |
| 221. | Wion Tv | Yes | Yes |
| 222. | TVP1 | No | Yes |
| 223. | TVP2 | No | Yes |
| 224. | TVP Info | No | Yes |
| 223. | RTL | No | Yes |
| 223. | ProSieben | No | Yes |
| 224. | RIK Sat | No | Yes |
| 225. | Sat.1 | Yes | Yes |
| 226. | NPO 1 | No | Yes |
| 227. | NPO 2 | No | Yes |
| 228. | BBC One (Scotland) | Yes | Yes |
| 229. | RTE One | Yes | Yes |
| 230. | S4C | Yes | Yes |
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Om Fusionen Boxer". Boxer (in Swedish). Retrieved 24 May 2020.
- ^ "Operatörer i ny jätteaffär – Tele2 köper Com Hem - Computer Sweden". 10 July 2022. Archived from the original on 10 July 2022. Retrieved 8 September 2022.
- ^ "Penny är en ny lågprisoperatör - erbjuder både mobil- och bredbandsabonnemang". 2 February 2020.
- ^ Svenskt Kvalitetsindex (Swedish)
- ^ 2017 report for Digital TV and Broadband (Swedish only).
- ^ "Mobile, broadband and entertainment converges in one brand as Com Hem becomes Tele2 - Tele2". 27 April 2021. Archived from the original on 27 April 2021. Retrieved 15 March 2024.
External links
edit- Official Com Hem website
- Official Com Hem Group website (in English)