i-Cable Communications Limited () is a

Hong Kong Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the wor ...

telecommunications company owned by Forever Top (Asia) Limited, which acquired the company from The Wharf Group in 2017.

Overview

Founded in 1999, the company provides broadband internet and

pay-TV Pay television, also known as subscription television, premium television or, when referring to an individual service, a premium channel, refers to subscription-based television services, usually provided by multichannel television providers, b ...

services. i-Cable also develops its fibre coaxial network (also used for the paid-TV service). The broadband internet access service deploying

cable modem A cable modem is a type of network bridge that provides bi-directional data communication via radio frequency channels on a hybrid fiber-coaxial (HFC), radio frequency over glass (RFoG) and coaxial cable infrastructure. Cable modems are pri ...

based technology via the

TCP/IP The Internet protocol suite, commonly known as TCP/IP, is a framework for organizing the communication protocols used in the Internet and similar computer networks according to functional criteria. The foundational protocols in the suite are ...

which is differed from the

PPPoE The Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet (PPPoE) is a network protocol for Encapsulation (networking), encapsulating Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) frames inside Ethernet frames. It appeared in 1999, in the context of the boom of DSL as the solu ...

technology provided by conventional carrier.

Ownership

i-Cable also owns Hong Kong Cable Television, a cable television and Internet service provider, and Fantastic Television, a

free-to-air Free-to-air (FTA) services are television (TV) and radio services broadcast in unencrypted form, allowing any person with the appropriate receiving equipment to receive the signal and view or listen to the content without requiring a subscri ...

television broadcaster.

External links

* Companies traded over-the-counter in the United States Companies listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange Internet service providers of Hong Kong Companies formerly listed on the Nasdaq Television stations in Hong Kong The Wharf (Holdings) {{HK-tv-stub