Merged with Com Hem since 2018, Swedish operator Tele2 has shed its legacy scales by transitioning to a pure streaming-based video strategy – setting a bar for service providers the world over as an early adopter of a self-managed private CDN. The details of this significant business transformation have just been made public in a case study published by Swedish CDN and caching specialist Varnish Software, which springboarded Tele2 to streaming bragging rights. This suggests that Tele2 has just annexed its 879,000 pay TV subscribers, which generated $250 million for the operator in 2022. This is not quite the overnight transformation that Tele2 and Varnish Software are implying, but a slow-burning migration from traditional video distribution – split 631,000 cable…