Tele2Vision

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Tele2Vision (known as KabelVision before 2004) was a Swedish cable television distributor owned by Tele2 that 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, TV4 and TV6 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:

On top of the interest packages, there are additional packages:

There is also some à la carte channels.

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

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References

  1. "Om Tele2Vision". Tele2Vision. Archived from the original on 2006-10-24. Retrieved 2007-06-17.