Film- und Medienstiftung NRW

Film und Medien Stiftung NRW➝Media Region NRW➝Media Branches NRW➝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
Vodafone active as a nationwide cable network operator
Deutsche Telekom: own offering for satellite customers
NetCologne is the largest city-carrier in Germany with 244 million euros turnover
Media Broadcast establishes a new DVB-T2 standard
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 COM at Cologne’s Messegelände offers the perfect market place. Europe’s leading conference and fair for cable, broadband and satellite is regularly able to register a record number of exhibitors and visitors.

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.