| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Founded | 1983 |
| Founder(s) | Televerket |
| Headquarters | Stockholm, Sweden |
| Area served | Countrywide |
| Key people | Tomas Franzén, CEO |
| Services | Television, Telecommunications |
| Revenue | SEK 3531,9M FY2007 |
| Owner(s) | BC Partners |
| Employees | 700 (2008) |
| Website | www.comhem.se |
Com Hem AB of Sweden, supplies triple play services that include cable tv, digital television, broadband, telephony and HDTV.
Founded in 1983 as Televerket Kabel-TV as part of the former state-owned Televerket, the company has been successively named Svenska Kabel-TV AB and Telia InfoMedia TeleVision AB, before becoming 'Com Hem' (a play with the Swedish phrase "Kom hem" = Come Home).
Today the company has nearly 136 different TV channels available to its customers. Digital TV was introduced in 1997. A broadband service that uses the company's proprietary cable network was launched in 1999. In 2004 IP telephony was introduced and the company became Sweden's first nationwide triple play operator. Com Hem now reach one third of Sweden's households.
All the households connected to the Com Hem cable network have access to broadband services, services for fixed telephony (VoIP) and a wide range of TV programs. Com Hem also provides interactive services that facilitate management, communication and maintenance for property owners.
The company has around 700 employees with offices in Stockholm, Göteborg, Malmö, Västerås and Härnösand. When Televerket was privatized, the company remained as part of Telia, before being bought by private equity firm EQT. Com Hem was acquired by the US venture capital companies The Carlyle Group and Providence Equity Partners, from January 1, 2006. In July 2011, BC Partners acquired Com Hem AB from earlier owners.[1]
Com Hem has been ranked as the TV brand with the least satisfied customers in Sweden 2007, 2008 and 2009 according to Svenskt Kvalitetsindex, an independent customer survey company. [2]
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The analog package may also include a few local channels, usually an open access channel such as public access channels known as Öppna Kanalen. In areas near Denmark, Norway or Finland, Com Hem usually includes channels from the neighboring countries such as TV Finland, YLE TV1, DR1, TV2 Denmark and NRK1.
| Channel | 8 favoriter | 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. | PPV Nu - (information about pay-per-view) | ||
| 20. | Com Hem-kanalen | ||
| 36. | BBC Knowledge | Yes | Large |
| 37. | BBC HD | Yes | Large/HDTV |
| 38. | History Channel HD | Yes | Large/HDTV |
| 39. | National Geographic 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 Two | Yes | Large |
| 52. | Mezzo | Yes | Large |
| 53. | National Geographic Channel | Yes | Large |
| 54. | Playboy TV | Yes | Large |
| 55. | Star! | Yes | Medium |
| 56. | Travel Channel | Yes | Large |
| 57. | TV400 | 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. | Fashion TV | Yes | No |
| 69. | Yacht & Sail | Yes | No |
| 70. | TV4 Science Fiction | Yes | Large |
| 71. | Zone Reality | Yes | No |
| 72. | TV4 HD | Yes | Large/HDTV |
| 73. | BBC Lifestyle | Yes | Large |
| 74. | ZTV | Yes | Medium |
| 75. | Canal+ Sport HD | No | Canal+ |
| 76. | Canal+ Sport 1 | No | Canal+ |
| 77. | Canal+ Sport 2 | No | Canal+ |
| 79. | Canal+ First | No | Canal+ |
| 80. | Canal+ Hits | No | Canal+ |
| 81. | Canal+ Action | No | Canal+ |
| 82. | Canal+ Comedy | No | Canal+ |
| 83. | Canal+ Drama | No | Canal+ |
| 84. | Canal+ Film HD | No | Canal+ |
| 85. | TV1000 | No | TV1000 |
| 86. | TV1000 Plus One | No | TV1000 |
| 87. | TV1000 Family | No | TV1000 |
| 88. | TV1000 Action | No | TV1000 |
| 89. | TV1000 Nordic | No | TV1000 |
| 90. | TV1000 Classic | No | TV1000 |
| 91. | TV1000 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. | TV1000 HD | No | TV1000 |
| 98. | SF-Kanalen | No | Canal+ |
| 99. | Hustler TV | No | No |
| 100. | TV4 Sport | Yes | Medium |
| 101. | Extreme Sports Channel | Yes | Large |
| 102. | Eurosport HD | Yes | HDTV |
| 103. | Eurosport 2 | Yes | Medium |
| 104. | ESPN Classic | Yes | Large |
| 105. | Viasat Sport | No | Viasat Sport |
| 106. | Viasat Fotboll | No | Viasat Sport |
| 107. | Viasat Motor | No | Viasat Sport |
| 108. | Motors TV | Yes | Large |
| 109. | Viasat Golf | No | No |
| 110. | ESPN America | Yes | No |
| 111. | Viasat Sport HD | No | Viasat Sport |
| 113. | Viasat Hockey | No | Viasat Sport |
| 120. | CNN International | Yes | Medium |
| 121. | BBC World News | Yes | Large |
| 122. | CNBC Europe | Yes | Large |
| 125. | Kunskapskanalen | Small | |
| 126. | Sky News International | Yes | Large |
| 128. | Al Jazeera English | Yes | Large |
| 150. | Cartoon Network | Yes | Medium |
| 152. | Nickelodeon | Yes | Medium |
| 153. | SVTB/SVT24 | Small | |
| 154. | Disney Channel | Yes | Large |
| 155. | Disney XD | Yes | Large |
| 156. | Disney Junior | Yes | Medium |
| 170. | DR1 | Yes | No |
| 171. | NRK1 | Yes | No |
| 172. | TV Finland | Yes | No |
| 174. | HRT1 | Yes | No |
| 175. | Pink Plus | No | No |
| 176. | Channel One Russia Worldwide | No | No |
| 177. | Rai Uno | 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. | TV Montenegro RTCG | Yes | No |
| 210. | 3sat | Yes | No |
| 211. | Canal 24 Horas | Yes | No |
| 212. | Canal de las Estrellas | Yes | No |
| 213. | Rai Due | Yes | No |
| 214. | RTP Internacional | Yes | No |
| 215. | France 2 | Yes | No |
| 216. | Duna TV | Yes | No |
| 217. | m2 | Yes | No |
| 218. | ERT International | Yes | No |
| 219. | ProTV International | Yes | No |
| 220. | Polsat 2 International | Yes | No |
| 221. | Hayat | No | No |
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