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Top 100 Operator Profiles

M7 Deutschland (KabelKiosk)
M7 Deutschland (KabelKiosk) (Germany)
M7 Deutschland is an affiliate of the Luxembourg-based pay TV provider M7 Group. M7 Deutschland entered the OTT space when it acquired the operations of KabelKiosk from Eutelsat in 2014.
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Magenta Telekom
Magenta Telekom (Austria)
Deutsche Telekom completed the merger of T-Mobile Austria with UPC Austria in May 2019, forming Magenta Telekom – a new full-service provider of mobile and fixed network services. Liberty Global’s TV Everywhere service Horizon Go launched in Austria in November 2013, and has since been replaced by Magenta TV and a new Magenta TV Everywhere app.
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Magine TV
Magine TV (Germany)
Magine TV is a cloud based OTT network, serving broadcasters, which launched in Sweden in 2013, and then fully expanded to Germany in April 2014 after running in Beta for 8 months.
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Magyar Telekom
Magyar Telekom (Hungary)
Magyar Telekom, a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom, is the largest telco in Hungary. Its OTT multiscreen service TV Go was launched in May 2014.
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Maxdome
Maxdome (Germany)
Maxdome has maxed out. The German OTT video platform, owned by ProSiebenSat.1, will be shuttered as of summer 2021. The company was founded in 2006 and became Germany’s largest VoD library with over 50,000 titles. Consider this document Maxdome’s obituary, one that does not mark a failed venture, but a successful one that will live on inside the operations of parent company ProSiebenSat.1 as part of the Joyn video streaming platform—which is operated jointly with Discovery.
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Mediacom
Mediacom (USA)
Mediacom Communications Corporation bills itself as the 5th largest cable company in the US, and boasts a declining video base and a growing broadband base, running across two separated business entities Mediacom Broadband and Mediacom. They were separated due to the controlling owner first taking them private in 2011 and then relisting them separately.
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Mediaset
Mediaset (Italy)
Mediaset is the largest broadcaster in Italy, operating a variety of OTT offerings include Mediaset Play, Infinity and the TivuOn hybrid DTH-OTT service in partnership with Telecom Italia and RAI.
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Mola TV
Mola TV (Indonesia)
In Indonesia, the world’s fourth most populous country with 277 million people, Mola TV is one to watch. Only founded in 2018, Mola TV is a multi-platform service provider for cable TV, IPTV, and OTT video—across live and on-demand mediums.
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Molotov
Molotov (France)
French OTT video service Molotov launched in November 2016.
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Movistar
Movistar (Chile)
Telefónica Chile was rebranded as Movistar in 2009, and was formerly called CTC. It is the largest fixed line operator in the country with its own Movistar Play OTT service, but it looks as though Telefonica is now looking to exit Chile altogether.
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MTNL
MTNL (India)
State-owned telco Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) offers the mobile TV service NexGTv from DigiVive, plus the IPTV service iControl, serving Delhi and Mumbai. MTNL had been due to merge with BSNL in 2021, but as of writing the merger had been deferred by the country’s Group of Ministers due to high debt on MTNL.
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Multimedia Polska / Vectra
Multimedia Polska / Vectra (Poland)
Third-placed Polish cable operator Multimedia Polska was acquired by second-placed Vectra in early 2020, fending off the expected takeover by Liberty Global, and allowing it to claim the title of Poland’s largest cable operator – admittedly still using two distinct brands. Multimedia offers the multiscreen TV Everywhere service Multimedia Go and Vectra’s strategy seems focused on building out fiber infrastructure in Poland, paving the way for IPTV services which are still relatively minor in this part of the world.
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Net Servicos
Net Servicos (Brazil)
Net Servicos is the largest cable TV operator in Brazil. It is owned by Claro which is in turn part of Carlos Slim’s giant Mexican telco group América Móvil. Net Servicos runs the OTT service Now Clube.
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Netflix
Netflix (USA, Global)
The US SVoD heavyweight is now global in reach in 190 countries. Its technology prowess is widely reported upon, having designed much of its system in-house, later shifting its entire operations over to AWS cloud.
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New T-Mobile
New T-Mobile (USA)
Following the mega-merger between T-Mobile US and Sprint, which completed in April 2020, a revamped TVision was launched some two years behind schedule—based on Android TV and Layer3 TV technology. Once TVision finds its feet and expands from an exclusive TMO wireless service to general availability, it should eventually phase out the aging Sprint TV app.
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NOS
NOS (Portugal)
Portuguese MSO NOS is the incumbent cable operator in the country. The NOS TV app launched in 2012 as Iris Online and the VoD offering NOS Play rolled out in 2015, followed by the updated RDK-based pay TV platform which opened the door to third-party OTT video.
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Nova
Nova (Greece)
Unveiled in 2019, Nova’s latest venture is Novaflix, a standalone OTT video service targeting non-pay TV subs. This complements the Nova Go TV Everywhere service launched in 2014, and the On-Demand platform which was added in 2016. Nova is owned by Forthnet, in which United Group now owns a sizable stake.
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NTT Docomo
NTT Docomo (Japan)
NTT Docomo, a subsidiary of government-owned telco NTT, is the incumbent MNO in Japan. Its Hikari TV service launched in March 2013, and dTV (was BeeTV) launched way back in 2009.
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Oi
Oi (Brazil)
Oi Play is the operator’s OTT VOD service, which is bundled with broadband, mobile and telephony with DTH satellite TV in Brazil, offered at no additional cost to Oi TV paying customers. The company has further operations in Africa and East Timor and is in the process of finalizing the sale of its mobile division, having recently sold a majority stake in its broadband infrastructure wing.
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Orange
Orange (France)
France’s incumbent telco has delivered mobile TV for over a decade and today offers the La TV d’Orange multiscreen service. The OCS (Orange Cinéma Séries) movie collection is also delivered to mobiles.
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