UPC Holding is a European telecommunications company owned by Liberty Global which provides cable television, broadband internet and fixed telephony in Europe.
[2] UPC was a major telecommunications provider in the world and operating in Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Hungary, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia and Sweden.
In 2007 UPC Telemach also bought 66.7% of Ljubljanski kabel[4] (major competition in Ljubljana) and grew its market share to 40% in Slovenia.
UPC sold French Citecable operations in France in 1996, in Germany in 1997 and Spain and Portugal in 1998.
In 2007, UPC sold their 50% shares in Melita telecommunications company in Malta to GMT Communications Partners.
[7] UPC France was sold for $1.56 billion, in 2006, to Noos (Ypso Holding) before being integrated into Numericable and then SFR in 2016.
[13] UPC Poland was sold to Polish cellular telecommunications provider Play (owned by Iliad Group) for US$1.8 billion.