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introduced by
Wind Hellas Wind Hellas (formerly TELESTET Hellas and later also TIM Hellas) was a Greek integrated telecommunications provider with headquarters in Athens, Greece. As of September 2010, Wind was the third largest mobile operator in Greece (after Cosmote ...
in April 2018. It was based on a
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infrastructure, where digital sound and vision was carried through a
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to a
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and the customer's
television Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. Additionally, the term can refer to a physical television set rather than the medium of transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, ...
. In December 2022 Wind Vision has been replaced by
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.


History

On 25 April 2018,
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Nassos Zarkalis introduced the
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's IPTV service. It was the first
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in
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with
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integrated. Also, it was the first service offering
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with
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technology. The service offered more than 60 live television channels, access to all
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services such as Google Play Movies,
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,
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, the use of an
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, multi-screen and
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(seven-day catch-up and restart). It was available to all Wind
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subscribers and provides two packages, ''family pack'' and ''full pack'', which includes all
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channels. By the end of March 2021 it was announced that wind vision had 80,000 subscribers making it the fourth largest
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provider. On June 1, 2022, Wind Hellas announced that its stores now have the
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platform for sale, essentially marking the first combined product action of the two companies, the completion of the
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under the
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of the second by the end of year is an intention for
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, providing "holistic"
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and content
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(
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and mobile
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,
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and
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). After nine days (June 10) it was announced that as of December 31 of the same year, the Wind Vision service is being canceled as part of the consolidation, giving the owners of the service the possibility to replace it with the Eon TV platform with exclusive preferential terms.


Channels list

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ANT1 Antenna, better known as ANT1, is a free-to-air television network airing in Greece. The alternate spelling is wordplay in Greek; ''ena'' (ένα) is the Greek number ''1'' (one), thus ''ANT1'' is pronounced the same as ''Antenna'' (Αντένν ...
* Star Channel *
Open TV Open TV, formerly Epsilontv, is a Greek free-to-air television station, based in Paiania, East Attica. History It belonged to Radio-television S.A. which was sold from Communist Party of Greece to the Cypriot offshore company A-Orizon Media ...
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Makedonia TV Makedonia TV (Greek: Μακεδονία TV) is a Greek private national free-to-air television channel broadcasting from Marousi, Athens and earlier from Thessaloniki, the capital of Macedonia in Greece. It was founded in 1991 by a group of journ ...
;Entertainment channels *
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* E! *
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;Sports channels * Novasports 24HD * Novasports 1HD * Novasports 2HD * Novasports 3HD * Novasports 4HD * Novasports 5HD *
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*Nautical Channel *Motorvision.TV *
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;Documentary channels *
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See also

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Eon TV Eon TV is a pay television service launched by United Group in October 2021 that is available in Southeast European countries, namely Greece, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Montenegro, Slovenia and Serbia. It is based on a broadband I ...
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Wind Hellas Wind Hellas (formerly TELESTET Hellas and later also TIM Hellas) was a Greek integrated telecommunications provider with headquarters in Athens, Greece. As of September 2010, Wind was the third largest mobile operator in Greece (after Cosmote ...


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