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It serves about 6.6 milion analogue subscribers in 12 countries of Europe, and is the absolutely dominant provider in countries like the Netherlands , Austria , Slovakia or the Czech Republic .

In Ireland , it owns nearly the entire cable network (apart from a few small operations) as well as the entire MMDS network, through its two subsidaries, Chorus Communications and NTL Ireland . In November 2005 , the Irish Competition Authority approved the sale of NTL Ireland (from NTL , via a temporary sale to Morgan Stanley ) to Liberty Global, subject to conditions regarding the influence of John C. Malone on the Irish business. The Minister For Enterprise, Trade & Employment raised no further objections and the purchase was completed in December 2005 . It is expected that the two companies will be merged into a single company, UPC Ireland, during 2006 .

In 2005 , UGC Europe bought the Romania n communications company Astral Telecom for $420 million.

In 2005 , UGC Europe bought the Swiss communications company Cablecom for CHF2.8 billion

Its business is divided into two units:
  • UPC Broadband (TV, telephony, internet access (see also Chello ), satellite TV)

  • chellomedia (broadband content, interactive services etc.)



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