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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

EBL sells telecom division to Sunrise

EBL has been active in the telecom business since 2000 and owns telecom networks in some 200 municipalities in Switzerland. At the same time, EBL has for several years been pursuing a policy of expansion of its business areas to incorporate renewable energy/heat production and distribution. As a result of this strategic focus, EBL is […]

September 1, 2022

Sunrise deploys Media Distillery to enhance TV user experience

Media Distillery, a provider of AI technology to understand what’s inside video, has announced that Switzerland’s largest private telecommunications company Sunrise, a wholly owned subsidiary of Liberty Global, has deployed EPG Correction Distillery to improve the video user experience for its digital TV customers. Thanks to Media Distillery’s AI technology, which went live at Sunrise in […]

June 28, 2022

CH Media, Sunrise UPC partnership

CH Media and Sunrise UPC are entering into a long-term strategic partnership to drive the expansion of Swiss streaming service, oneplus, from CH Media and to enhance the portfolio and the customer offering of Sunrise UPC. As part of the new partnership, oneplus will become an integral component of the Sunrise product range in the […]

March 4, 2022

Sunrise UPC expands 4K gaming via 5G

Sunrise UPC, the Swiss telcom, has launched its cloud gaming service with 4K resolution via 5G, for iOS (iPhone, iPads) and MacOS devices (MacBooks, iMacs, etc.). Over 100 games are now available via 5G or Wi-Fi on almost all mobile devices and – also new – directly on all Samsung smart TV models. Two new […]

December 6, 2021

yallo launches own TV offer

The yallo product family continues to grow and Christoph Richartz, Chief YOL Officer at Sunrise UPC, has announcde: “We are impressing more and more customers with innovative and powerful products and want to continue growing. Following the addition of fiber optics to our mobile portfolio offer, we are now taking another step towards becoming a […]

October 19, 2021

Sunrise appoints UPC Executive Committee

Sunrise UPC has announces its new executive leadership team, which it says “combines the best talent from both companies with the goal of stability and strategic clarity”. The full Sunrise UPC Executive Committee comprises of: André Krause, CEO Severina Pascu, Deputy CEO and Chief Operating Officer Jany Fruytier, Chief Financial Officer Elmar Grasser, Chief Technical […]

December 4, 2020