UPC Broadband

In 2005, Liberty Global Europe bought the Romanian communications company Astral Telecom for $420 million, the Swiss communications company Cablecom for CHF2.8 billion, and the Slovenian communications company UPC Telemach for EUR71 million. In 2007 UPC Telemach also bought 66.7% of Ljubljanski kabel{{cite web|title=UPC Telemach buys Ljubljanski kabel|url=http://www.telecompaper.com/news/upc-telemach-buys-ljubljanski-kabel--558810|website=Telecompaper|access-date=29 September 2015|date=11 June 2007}} (major competition in Ljubljana) and grew its market share to 40% in Slovenia.

UPC sold French Citecable operations in France in 1996, in Germany in 1997 and Spain and Portugal in 1998.

In 2002, UPC sold their 47% ownership interest in Tevel Israel International Communications Ltd.

In 1999, UPC purchased approximately 25% of Primacom cable company in Germany. In April 2000 UPC announced that will buy EWT/TSS Group and in 2001 EWT/TSS merged with Primacom.{{Cite web |url=https://www.screendaily.com/cable-giants-upc-and-primacom-merge-in-germany/405404.article |title= Cable giants UPC and PrimaCom merge in Germany |publisher=screendaily.com |date=29 March 2001}} In 2006 UPC sold their remaining shares in company.

In 2007, UPC sold their 50% shares in Melita telecommunications company in Malta to GMT Communications Partners.{{Cite web |url=http://archive.businesstoday.com.mt/2009/09/16/interview.html |title=Melita, two years after |publisher=businesstoday.com.mt |date= 16 September 2009}}

UPC Norway was bought by Candover Investments for $542 million and changed the name to Get AS.{{Cite web |url=https://www.bizjournals.com/denver/stories/2006/01/23/daily18.html |title=Liberty Global Completes Sale of UPC Norway |publisher=bizhournals.com |date=24 January 2006}}

UPC France was sold for $1.56 billion, in 2006, to Noos (Ypso Holding) before being integrated into Numericable and then SFR in 2016.{{Cite web |url=https://www.multichannel.com/news/liberty-global-wraps-upc-france-sale-332378 |title= Liberty Global Wraps UPC France Sale |publisher=multichannel.com |date=20 July 2006}}

UPC Sweden was sold in April 2006 for $427 million to Com Hem.{{Cite web |url=https://rethinkresearch.biz/articles/liberty-global-sells-off-upc-sweden-for-427-million/ |title=Liberty Global sells off UPC Sweden for $427 million |publisher=rethinkresearch.biz |date= 12 April 2006}}

UPC acquired in 2005, the majority stake in the Telemach operator in Slovenia, renaming it UPC Telemach. After the complete acquisition of all shares in 2008, the name was changed to UPC. In 2009 the company was resold to Telemach, returning to the old name.{{Cite web |url=https://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2009/07/17/upc-slovenia-sale-completed/ |title=UPC Slovenia sale completed |publisher=broadbandtvnews.com |date=17 July 2009}}

In October 2015, UPC Ireland Was merged with Virgin Media Ireland, UPC got first rebranded with Chorus:NTL in 2010.

UPC Netherlands merged with Ziggo, another Liberty Global subsidiary. The new company was formed under name Ziggo and in 2016 merged with Vodafone Netherlands to form VodafoneZiggo.

UPC Austria was acquired by T-Mobile Austria on 31 July 2018 and fully integrated in Magenta Telekom in May 2019.{{Cite web |url= https://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2018/07/31/liberty-global-completes-sale-of-upc-austria/ |title=Liberty Global completes sale of UPC Austria |publisher=broadbandtvnews.com |date= 31 July 2018}}

In July 2019, Vodafone bought Liberty Global operations in Germany where operates Unitymedia, another Liberty Global subsidiary, Hungary, Romania and the Czech Republic.{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/vodafone-closes-213-billion-liberty-global-deal-1227891|title=Vodafone Closes $21.3 Billion Liberty Global Deal|date=31 July 2019 |publisher=Hollywood Reporter|access-date=30 August 2019}} On March 31, 2020 UPC Czech Republic merged with Vodafone Czech Republic, UPC Hungary merged with Vodafone Hungary and UPC Romania merged with Vodafone Romania.{{cite web |url=https://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2019/07/31/liberty-global-completes-vodafone-cable-deal/ |title=Liberty Global completes Vodafone cable deal |date=31 July 2019 |publisher=Broadbandtvnews.com }}

UPC Poland was sold to Polish cellular telecommunications provider Play (owned by Iliad Group) for US$1.8 billion. Deal was closed on April 1, 2022.{{cite web|url=https://iliad-strapi.s3.fr-par.scw.cloud/CP_010422_Eng_fe20cbb292.pdf|title=iliad completes the acquisition of UPC Polska|publisher=iliad Group|date=2022-04-01|access-date=2022-04-01}}

In May 2022, Liberty Global re-branded its Swiss operation, Sunrise UPC, as simply Sunrise.{{cite web |last1=Thomson |first1=Stuart |title=Sunrise UPC makes Sunrise its principal brand |url=https://www.digitaltveurope.com/2022/05/19/sunrise-upc-makes-sunrise-its-principal-brand/ |website=Digital TV Europe |date=19 May 2022 |publisher=Informa PLC |access-date=5 July 2022}}

In 1997 the company started offering broadband internet and landline telephony in the Netherlands. These services have also been extended to other countries under the chello brand for internet services and Priority Telecom for telephony and later for b2b services. In 2007 the company replaced the chello brand with UPC for internet services.

UPC operated several television channels under the UPCtv brand,{{Cite web |url=http://getfilings.com/o0000912057-02-015106.html |title= UnitedGlobalCom, Inc. Report| publisher= getfilings.com |date= 31 December 2001}} and later after the acquisition of Zone Vision merged with it under the Zone Media brand and later rebranded as Chello Zone, part of Chellomedia. Chellomedia was sold in 2014 to AMC Networks and renamed as AMC Networks International.

• [https://www.upc.sk/ UPC Slovakia]
• [https://www.upc.ch/ UPC Switzerland]

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