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Top 100 Operator Profiles

Orange (Spain)

The Spanish arm of Orange operates mobile, broadband and TV services, acquiring rival operator Jazztel in 2015. The Orange TV Everywhere service launched in Spain in 2013, joined by the OTT service Cine y Series.

Orange Polska (Poland)

Orange previously provided streaming video via the brand Orange Play, running since July 2012, but this has since been replaced simply with Orange TV. Orange Poland then rolled out a new hybrid OTT/IPTV service in September 2019.

PCCW (Hong Kong)

PCCW’s OTT video service Viu was founded in late 2016 and today is available in 16 markets across APAC and MENA regions. PCCW then launched the OTT app Now TV in May 2018 along with an Android TV set top.

Platforma Canal+ (Poland)

Proximus (Belgium)

Belgium’s incumbent telco Proximus launched its first TV Everywhere service TV Partout in 2011, which rebranded to Proximus TV in 2017, before evolving into the current Pickx platform—a fully-fledged advanced Android TV Operator Tier service.

PT First Media (Indonesia)

Indonesian cable TV operator PT First Media, part of the Lippo Group and formerly called PT Broadband Multimedia, runs the OTT service First Media Go and TV Anywhere app FirstMediaX (FMX).

Rakuten TV (Spain)

Spanish OTT service Wuaki.tv was founded in 2009, and went on to be acquired by Japan’s Rakuten in 2012, the world’s third largest e-commerce group, for an undisclosed fee. The service was then rebranded as Rakuten TV in July 2017.

Reliance Jio (India)

Reliance Jio was founded by energy and telecoms conglomerate Reliance Industries in 2007, launching its first OTT service Jio On Demand in April 2016. Jio has since gone on to heavily disrupt the mobile market in India - and is in the process of doing the same in broadband and DTH sectors.

Rogers Communications (Canada)

The shomi joint OTT venture with Shaw was short-lived—going live in summer 2015 then shuttering in late 2016. Rogers now licenses the Comcast X1 platform for Ignite TV, after scrapping its in-house Eclipse IPTV service which was due to launch in 2016.

Salt (Switzerland)

Swiss mobile operator Salt was bought out from Orange by Iliad founder Xavier Niel. Although it doesn’t offer an OTT video service as such, Salt has packaged together an IPTV platform with multiscreen viewing, built around an aggressive 10 Gbps fiber broadband offering.

Shaw (Canada)

SK Telecom (South Korea)

SK Telecom’s IP video venture started in 2012 with the mobile video service BTV, followed by the mobile IPTV service Oksusu, launched in 2016. SKT has since merged Oksusu with ad-supported service Pooq to form a new OTT video offering called wave—one with international ambitions.

Sky (UK)

Sky Deutschland (Germany)

Sky, now owned by Comcast, launched its Sky Online OTT offering in October 2014, when it closed down the SVoD service Sky Snap after just 10 months. Content from Snap was then integrated into the two packages available in the Sky Online service (called Sky Ticket in Germany).

Sky Italia (Italy)

Now owned by Comcast, Sky Italia launched its subscription streaming service Sky Online in December 2013 which has since been rebranded as Now TV, and also offers TV Everywhere via Sky Go.

Sky NZ (New Zealand)

Sky is the country’s incumbent pay TV provider and is churning subs hard and fast to OTT. It runs the complimentary Sky Go streaming service and the standalone OTT video services Lightbox and Neon, which it plans to merge.

Slovak Telekom (Slovakia)

Slovak Telekom is the largest operator in Slovakia, and is now owned by Deutsche Telekom. Its Magio Go OTT service was launched in June 2013.

Smart Communications (Philippines)

Smart Communications is a mobile arm of Philippine incumbent telco PLDT (Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company). Its TV offerings include streaming apps Smartlife, I Want TV, and ViewStream, plus pay-per-view (PPV) movie services and an Android set top.

SoftBank (Japan)

After numerous attempts to become a major video force in the Japanese market, particularly mobile-first delivery, SoftBank exited the TV market in 2017—just 3 years after launching the OTT video service BBTV Next.

Sunrise UPC (Switzerland)

Sunrise UPC, owned by Liberty Global, is the largest cable television operator in Switzerland. It offers the TV Everywhere service UPC TV, and is in the process of integrating operations with Sunrise—acquired by merger.