UPC Nederland B.V.

Type	Besloten Vennootschap
Founded	1998
Headquarters	Amsterdam, Netherlands
Area served	Parts of: Flevoland Friesland Gelderland North Brabant North Holland South Holland
Industry	Telecommunications
Products	Cable television Broadband Internet Telephony
Parent	Liberty Global
Website	upc.nl

UPC Netherlands (Dutch: UPC Nederland) is the second largest cable operator in the Netherlands, providing cable television (digital and analog), broadband Internet, and telephone service to both residential and commercial customers.

[edit] History

UPC Netherlands operates in the Dutch marked since 1998. It came to market on an aggressive manner by rapidly buying up local cable companies and offering connections below the cost price, a common practice during the internet hype. This went at the expense of service and reliability. Nowadays UPC seems to have learned its lessons from the past, in 2006 UPC Netherlands won the Golden Contact Center Award for best costumer service in the Netherlands.

Some of the larger cable companies bought by UPC where: A2000 (Amsterdam and surrounding regions), Telekabel-Zuidelijk (Gelderland, Brabant, and Friesland), Gelrevision (Veluwe and East Gelderland), Eneco K&T (Rotterdam and surrounding regions) and several smaller and mid-sized networks. Now the UPC's customer base consists of approximately 2.3 million subscribers

[edit] Services

A Pace set-top box with a UPC smart card and remote, used by UPC Netherlands.

UPC Netherlands offers analog and digital cable television, broadband Internet access, and voice over IP telephone services.

[edit] Cable television

[edit] Internet

UPC Netherlands was in 2008 the first cable company in Europe to be using the new EuroDOCSIS 3.0 cable standard. This new standard made it possible to achieve speeds comparable to fiber, up to 120 Mbps. UPC offers the following subscription forms:

[edit] References

[edit] See also

• Television in the Netherlands
• Digital television in the Netherlands
• Internet in the Netherlands
• UPC Broadband
• List of cable companies in the Netherlands

[edit] External links

• UPC Netherlands homepage (Dutch)