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Top 100 Operator Profiles

Cogeco (Canada)

Cogeco Communications is the 8th largest cable operator in North America, serving both halves of the continent, including the East Cost of the US via Atlantic Broadband. Cogeco offers the Epico IPTV platform based on Android TV Operator Tier.

Com Hem (Sweden)

Comcast (USA)

Comcast’s NBCUniversal launched the live and on-demand streaming service Peacock in the US market in July 2020, three months later than scheduled. Peacock’s European debut followed in November 2021.

Cox Communications (USA)

Cox Communications is a US privately owned subsidiary of Cox Enterprises offering cable TV and broadband. Its TV Everywhere app launched in 2011, as part of a streaming strategy almost entirely based on copying Comcast, the most recent move being to offer Flex streaming devices.

Cyfrowy Polsat (Poland)

Incumbent DTH operator Cyfrowy Polsat offers the seventh largest subscription TV service in Europe across Satellite and OTT. Its EvoBox Stream set top is Android TV-based with dedicated hardware.

Dailymotion (France)

Founded in 2005, Dailymotion is the world’s second largest video aggregation platform. French mass media firm Vivendi owns a majority stake.

DAZN (Global)

Deutsche Telekom (Germany)

Dish Network (USA)

Dish launched its free TV Everywhere service, Dish Anywhere, in August 2010. Then in January 2015, Dish’s subscription OTT service, Sling TV, was unveiled and for the past few years has been a successful tool at offsetting the satellite TV exodus.

Dish TV (India)

DNA Oy (Finland)

The DNA Welho MatkaTV OTT service launched in September 2012, and was then followed by an upgraded system in 2015 simply called DNA TV. DNA Oy is now owned by Telenor and has just sold its DTT pay TV business to competitor Digita Oy for an undisclosed sum.

Foxtel (Australia)

Australian pay TV company Foxtel is jointly owned by Telstra and News Corp Australia. Foxtel currently runs a trio of video streaming services—Foxtel Now, Kayo Sports, and Binge. The SVoD service Presto was shuttered in early 2017.

Get AS (Norway)

Norwegian cable operator Get launched its Get TV mobile app in September 2014, around the same time it was acquired by TDC Group, before being sold to Telia in 2018.

HBO Max (USA)

Hulu (USA)

iflix (APAC) (Malaysia)

Billed as the Netflix killer of Asia, iflix launched in Malaysia in May 2015 as a competitively priced SVoD offering and is available in 13 countries today. iflix has evolved into an OTT video offering covering all bases—which poses a key challenge for Netflix in these regions.

KDDI (Japan)

KDDI is the second-placed mobile network operator in Japan, behind NTT. Its Video Pass SVoD service launched in 2012 and now goes as the au Smart Pass platform, which was only injected with video content for the first time in June 2020.

Korea Telecom (South Korea)

KPN (Netherlands)

KPN is the incumbent operator in the Netherlands and is a company with serious survival challenges. Its main TV offering is the IPTV service iTV, and although It launched the OTT service KPN Play in late 2015, this lasted less than three years and was shuttered in July 2018.

LG U+ (South Korea)

A subsidiary of the electronics giant LG, the South Korean telco LG Uplus offers IPTV, broadband, and telephony. It also served up content via the mobile-first live and on-demand service U+ Mobile TV, until this was shut down in mid-2021.