Tele2Vision

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Tele2Vision (known as KabelVision before 2004) is a Swedish cable television distributor owned by Tele2. It was started in 1986 ^[1].

Tele2 was relatively late in adopting digital television, broadcasting analogue only until early 2006 (the other major distributors, Com Hem, SPA and Canal Digital, had been offering digital television for several years by then). The switch was however more straightforward. While the other distributors were simulcasting both analogue and digital television, Tele2Vision closed down most of the analogue channels when they launched digital television, leaving only SVT1, SVT2, SVT24, Barnkanalen, Kunskapskanalen and TV4 on analogue.

The digital broadcasts always include the SVT channels, TV4, TV6 and Aftonbladet TV7. The foundation of the digital offering are "interest packages" containing channels in different genres:

"Entertainment": TV3, Kanal 5, TV8, MTV, TV4 Plus and Viasat Nature/Crime.
"Sport": TV4 Sport, Eurosport, Eurosport 2, ESPN Classic, Extreme Sports and Viasat Sport 3.
"Documentary": Viasat History, Viasat Explorer, Discovery Channel, Discovery Travel & Living and Animal Planet.
"Factual": CNN, BBC World, DiTV, TV4 Fakta and Travel Channel

In addition there are premium packages containing the channels from TV1000, Viasat Sport and Canal+, a children's package containg Disney Channel, Nickelodeon and Jetix and some à la carte channels.

Like many other cable television distributors, Tele2Vision has launched triple play services, later on expanding into quadruple play.