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Com Hem was a Swedish brand owned by Tele2 AB which supplied Triple Play services that included
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. Founded in 1983 as Televerket Kabel-TV as part of the former state-owned Televerket, the company was successively named Svenska Kabel-TV AB and Telia InfoMedia TeleVision AB, before becoming 'Com Hem' (a play on the Swedish phrase ''Kom hem'', "come home") in 1999. In 2003, Telia had to sell Com Hem to EQT Partners to satisfy EU competition requirements as a result of its merger with
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of Finland that same year. In 2021 the company had 135+ TV channels available.
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was introduced in 1997. A broadband service that used the company's proprietary
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was launched in 1999. In 2004
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telephone was introduced, and the company became Sweden's first nationwide triple play service provider. All households connected to the Com Hem Cable Network had access to broadband Internet services, services, fixed-line telephony and a wide range of TV channels. Com Hem also provided interactive services that facilitated management, communication and maintenance for property owners. The company had around 1000 employees, with offices in
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and Örnsköldsvik. In 2011, EQT sold the company to BC Partners. Com Hem held its initial public offering ( IPO) on 17 June 2014 and became listed on
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. On 27 April 2017
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acquired approximately 18.5% of the stock and became Com Hem's largest stock holder. Com Hem also operated mobile services as an
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using its own brand and since early-2020, also with an online-only brand called Penny (managed by Tele2 since 2021) whose operations are modelled after
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, and is also a broadband
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using Com Hem/Tele2's fixed-line infrastructure. Com Hem's mobile services utilised the Tele2 (
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and
Net4Mobility Net4Mobility is a joint venture between Telenor Sweden and Tele2 Sweden. The company’s main goal is to build, own and operate a GSM (2G), LTE (4G) and 5G NR Network and Transmission Network in Sweden. The mobile network covers 99 percent of the ...
) infrastructure in 2G
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, 3G
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and 4G LTE. Com Hem had been ranked as the TV brand with the least satisfied customers in Sweden in 2007, 2008 and 2009 according to Svenskt Kvalitetsindex, an independent customer survey company. It has since almost reached the top of the ranking with the most satisfied customers, according to the same source. Analogue channels were withdrawn from the cable television network on 8 September 2020. On 27 April 2021, the owner Tele2 discontinued the use of the Com Hem brand, while continuing to provide the same services under its own brand.
Mobile, broadband and entertainment converges in one brand as Com Hem becomes Tele2


Analogue channels - Withdrawn

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The analogue package could also include a few local channels, usually an open access channel such as public access channels known as Öppna Kanalen ( sv). In areas near Denmark, Norway or Finland, Com Hem usually included channels from the neighboring countries such as
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, YLE TV1, DR1,
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and NRK1.


Digital channels


See also

* List of Swedish television channels


References


External links


Official ''Com Hem'' website

Official ''Com Hem Group'' website
(in English) {{Carlyle Group Telecommunications companies established in 1983 Television in Sweden Cable television companies Internet service providers of Sweden VoIP services VoIP companies of Sweden Private equity portfolio companies The Carlyle Group companies Providence Equity Partners companies Telecommunications companies of Sweden Companies based in Stockholm Companies listed on Nasdaq Stockholm Swedish companies established in 1983