Com Hem is a Swedish brand owned by Tele2 AB which supplies Triple Play services that include cable television, broadband internet and fixed-line telephone. Founded in 1983 as Televerket Kabel-TV as part of the former state-owned Televerket, the company was successively named Svenska Kabel-TV AB and Telia InfoMedia TeleVision AB, before becoming 'Com Hem' in 1999. In 2003, Telia had to sell Com Hem to EQT Partners as a result of its merger with Sonera of Finland that same year. Today the company has 135+ TV channels available. Digital TV was introduced in 1997. A broadband service that uses the company's proprietary cable network was launched in 1999. In 2004 VoIPtelephone was introduced and the company became Sweden's first nationwide triple playservice provider. All households connected to the Com Hem Cable Network have access to broadband Internet services, services, fixed-line telephony and a wide range of TV channels. Com Hem also provides interactive services that facilitate management, communication and maintenance for property owners. The company has around 1000 employees, with offices in Stockholm, Gothenburg, Malmö, Västerås, Härnösand, Sundsvall and Örnsköldsvik. In 2011, EQT sold the company to BC Partners. Com Hem held its initial public offering on 17 June 2014 and is now listed on Stockholm Stock Exchange. On 27 April 2017 Kinnevik acquired approximately 18.5% of the stock and became Com Hem's largest stock holder. In early 2020, Com Hem launched Penny, a lower-cost mobile virtual network operator using the Tele2 infrastructure in 2G, 3G and 4G LTE, and also a broadband flanker brand using Com Hem's fixed-line infrastructure. Com Hem had been ranked as the TV brand with the least satisfied customers in Sweden in 2007, 2008 and 2009 according to Svenskt Kvalitetsindex, an independent customer survey company. It has since almost reached the top of the ranking with the most satisfied customers, according to the same source.
The analog package may also include a few local channels, usually an open access channel such as public access channels known as Öppna Kanalen. In areas near Denmark, Norway or Finland, Com Hem usually includes channels from the neighboring countries such as TV Finland, YLE TV1, DR1, TV2 Denmark and NRK1.
