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Cable / Satellite

Modern cable networks are a major element of a region’s quality: NRW is Germany’s largest and most dynamic cable market with approx. 4 million connected households. NetCologne, the most successful German city carrier, has its headquarters in NRW alongside Unitymedia, the largest cable operator. NRW offers an outstanding environment for the development of new digital services with leading content and infrastructure providers based in the region. The international industry comes together in Cologne each year for ANGA COM, Europe’s largest broadband and satellite event.

Facts and figures

  • Germany’s largest cable market with around 4 million connected households
  • Unitymedia is the federal state‘s largest cable network operator with 2.4 billion euros turnover
  • NetCologne is the largest city-carrier in Germany with 262 million euros turnover
  • Media Broadcast establishes a new DVB-T2 / freenet TV standard and DAB+
  • ANGA COM: Europe’s largest broadband event

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Cable & satellite in NRW

 

Timo von Lepel
Managing Director NetCologne
NRW is where Germany's communications pulse is beating and there isn't anywhere else where the digital infrastructure is as developed as here. NetCologne has been providing the people and companies in the Rhineland with high-performance networks for more than 20 years and is thus an important motor for digitisation - as well as in the future.
Thomas Braun
President ANGA Verband Deutscher Kabelnetzbetreiber
The cable, broadband and TV industry is booming, and ANGA Cable at Cologne’s Messegelände offers the perfect market place. Europe’s leading conference and fair for cable, broadband and satellite registered record numbers of exhibitors and visitors again this year.
Lutz Schüler
CEO Unitymedia
North Rhine-Westphalia is one of the most important media and economic regions in Europe. We are proud to contribute to the continuing success of its businesses and citizens with a first-class broadband infrastructure and quality products.
Herbert Strobel
Managing Director ASTRO Strobel Kommunikationssysteme
NRW is the home of important network operators. The modern infrastructures are used by companies and consumers alike. Thus, we have an excellent environment as a system provider for cable television networks and digital headend technology
Wolfgang Breuer
Chairman of the Board of Management, MEDIA BROADCAST
The proximity to many of our clients and business partners as well as the possibility of recruiting media-savvy employees - nowhere in Germany is this better met for MEDIA BROADCAST as a company with a nationwide presence than in the media region of NRW.