UPC Sweden

UPC Sweden was a Swedish cable television distributor, mainly active in the Stockholm region. It was the second largest cable network in Sweden before it was integrated into

Com Hem Com Hem was a Swedish brand owned by Tele2 AB which supplied Triple Play services that included cable television, broadband internet and fixed-line telephone. Founded in 1983 as Televerket Kabel-TV as part of the former state-owned Televerke ...

in 2006. It was formed in 1985 by the three estate companies Familjebostäder,

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and Stockholmshem as StjärnTV. It was later sold to

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, who passed it on to Scandinavian Equity Partners in 1998. They, now known as EQT Scandinavia, sold it to

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in 1999 who changed the company name to UPC in 2000. Digital television was launched in 2001, but it kept an analogue basic package for its entire existence. In April 2006, Liberty Global Europe (formerly UPC) decided to sell many of their assets, including UPC Sweden and UPC Norway. The Swedish part was sold to

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and

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, two American equity firms that also owned

, the largest cable company in Sweden. The UPC brand was replaced by the Com Hem brand in November and the cable network was technically integrated in April 2007. Cable television companies Television in Sweden {{Sweden-company-stub