
Streaming live video portal Zattoo plans an app for upc cablecom’s Horizon platform in the near future.
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Streaming live video portal Zattoo plans an app for upc cablecom’s Horizon platform in the near future.

UPC Cablecom’s launch of its Horizon product in Switzerland has met with the same teething problems as in the Netherlands.

Swiss cable operator UPC cablecom will start distributing HbbTV signals on the network from January 2013.

Subscribers to UPC Cablecom will have online access to significantly more channels than their Dutch counterparts when the Horizon platform is launched in Switzerland early next year.

UPC Cablecom is describing its plan to drop separate charges for basic TV and 2 Mbps internet as the most far reaching change on the Swiss cable market since the introduction of digital TV.

UPC Cablecom added another 54,600 subscriptions in the second quarter across TV, internet and telephony.
Switzerland’s UPC Cablecom has added 17 new digital channels. A further 21 of the existing channels will now be available in HD.
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