Allente is a Nordic TV distributor that offers TV solutions via
satellite TV
Satellite television is a service that delivers television programming to viewers by relaying it from a communications satellite orbiting the Earth directly to the viewer's location. The signals are received via an outdoor parabolic antenna commo ...
and
IPTV, to 1.2 million customers in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. In addition, the company offers streaming services, as well as IPTV solutions and fiber broadband via open networks. The company was established on 5 May 2020, as a result of a merger between
Canal Digital
Canal Digital was a Nordic pay TV and internet service provider in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland that was founded in March 1997 as a joint venture between the French pay TV company Canal+ and the Norwegian telecommunications opera ...
and
Viasat Consumer. The merger was planned the year before, but was only approved by the EU on that date.
The company is owned 50/50 by
Telenor Group (which owned Canal Digital) and Nordic Entertainment Group, now
Viaplay Group
Viaplay Group AB, formerly known as Nordic Entertainment Group AB (NENT Group), is a Swedish media and entertainment company headquartered in Stockholm.
The company operates the namesake video streaming services Viaplay and Viafree, advertising ...
, (which owned Viasat).
The company is headquartered in
Oslo and
Stockholm
Stockholm () is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, largest city of Sweden as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people liv ...
.
The CEO of Allente is Jonas Gustafsson.
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Cable television companies of Norway
Cable television companies
Companies based in Oslo
Direct broadcast satellite services
Internet service providers of Norway
Mass media companies established in 2020
Nordic Entertainment Group
Telenor
Television broadcasting companies of Norway
Television in Denmark
Television in Finland
Television in Sweden
Television networks in Sweden