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Liberty Global Q2 revenue up 1.4%

Liberty Global has announced its Q2 2024 financial results. CEO Mike Fries stated, “Q2 has been another active quarter as we’ve continued to drive our strategic priorities; maximising the value of our FMCs, leveraging our Ventures portfolio, and taking steps to deliver that value directly to shareholders over time. ” “Our plan to spin-off Sunrise […]

July 26, 2024

Sunrise doubles speeds of hybrid fibre-coaxial cable network

Sunrise reports it has more than doubled the speed of its hybrid fibre-coaxial cable network. “Fast and reliable Internet is a basic need, not only in cities, but throughout Switzerland. That’s why we’re more than doubling the Internet speed on our hybrid fibre-coaxial cable network, to which around 80 per cent of Swiss households are […]

May 30, 2024

Liberty Global “in great shape” despite subs decline

Liberty Global has reported tht Q1 revenue increased 4.1 per cent YoY on a reported basis and 1.9 per cent on a rebased basis to $1.94 billion (€1.81bn). Q1 net earnings (loss) increased 173.9 per cent YoY on a reported basis to $527 million. CEO Mike Fries stated: “On our extended fourth quarter results call […]

May 2, 2024

Switzerland: Apple TV+ on Sunrise TV

Apple TV+ is now available in Switzerland on the Sunrise TV Box as an integrated app.  “We’re launching Apple TV+ on our own TV Box as a Swiss premiere. With this, Sunrise TV is offering another exclusive benefit and, thanks to the award-winning movies and series from Apple TV+, an even larger choice of outstanding […]

December 12, 2023

Switzerland: wedotv on oneplus and Sunrise

AVoD and FAST channel operator wedotv is now distributing its services in Switzerland on CH Media Entertainment’s oneplus streaming platform, as well as via Liberty Global owned Sunrise. CH Media Entertainment recently launched its streaming platform oneplus, which offers consumers an array of programming choices, from movies to series, in various genres, documentaries and live […]

August 2, 2023

Green Streams, Varnish bring strategic partnership to life for Sunrise

German OTT & IPTV TV & Entertainment SaaS platform provider, Green Streams, has announced a new partnership with Varnish Software to augment its platform facilitating the rapid introduction of modern TV and entertainment products for pay TV and Internet Service Providers (ISPs). To ensure fast, reliable and secure video distribution for Green Streams’ platform, the […]

May 19, 2023

Sunrise partners with Skyline

Skyline Communications, a provider of end-to-end vendor- and domain-agnostic digital transformation solutions for the ICT media and broadband industry, has announced that Sunrise, the largest private telecommunications company in Switzerland, has selected Skyline’s DataMiner platform for the fully automated provisioning of their latest generation of CIN and Remote PHY Nodes. These nodes form the outer […]

January 26, 2023

EBL, Sunrise complete telecom takeover

Sunrise has acquired the telecom business of its long-standing partner, EBL, with retroactive effect from January 1st 2023. The takeover is the result of many years of cooperation between the two companies in Switzerland. A total of 60,000 telecom customers currently connected in the regions of Liestal, Laufen, Romandy, and Bern as well as in […]

January 16, 2023

Liberty Global Q3 revenue down 8.3%

Liberty Global has published its Q3 2022 financial results. Mike Fries, CEO, commented: “Despite the macroeconomic challenges in Europe we clearly have a resilient business model, as demonstrated by our solid results in Q3. Connectivity remains an essential service with strong demand across our footprint for reliable and seamless access to high-quality fixed and mobile […]

November 2, 2022

Switzerland: Ad deal for time-shift TV

TV broadcasters and TV channels have reached an agreement enabling them to continue offering time-shifted television (replay TV) in its current form in Switzerland in the future. This allows the channels to use new advertising formats to compensate for the revenue lost if commercials are skipped when viewing replay TV. Sunrise is implementing this agreement […]

September 14, 2022