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Sky Cable (stylized as SKYcable) is a cable television service of Sky Cable Corporation, the Philippines' largest cable television provider.〔http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/bbcworldwide/worldwidestories/pressreleases/2011/01_january/cbeebies_philippines. shtml〕 Its franchise area covers Metropolitan Manila, and its suburb or neighboring areas and it is also in provincial areas that both digital and few analog services, and it has 700,000 subscribers controlling 45% of the cable TV market.〔http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/business/06/28/12/skycable-focus-digitization-efforts-allots-p1-b-capex〕 == History == Since it started community antenna television system operation in the Philippines on January 26, 1992, SkyCable provides cable Internet, VoIP services and digital cable TV service. * On June 6, 1990, SkyCable Corporation was incorporated via 79.3% stake in Sky Vision Corporation, operator of cable brands, SkyCable and Sun Cable.〔http://www.pse.com.ph/html/ListedCompanies/pdf/2010/ABS_17A_Apr2010.pdf〕 * On April 18, 1991, Sky Vision Corporation was incorporated and ventures into cable television (SkyCable and Sun Cable), communication, system, television media, shopping network (Sky Mall) and film distribution (Sky Jemah). It is owned 18.8% by ABS-CBN Corporation and 78% by Lopez Inc.〔 * On March 30, 1995, Central CATV Inc. was granted a 25-year provisional franchise to establish, construct, maintain and operated community antenna television system in the Philippines through Republic Act 7969.〔(Philippine Laws, Statutes And Codes - Chan Robles Virtual Law Library )〕 * In 1997, Sky Vision Corporation acquired 47% of Pilipino Cable Corp., operator of Sun Cable for P900 million.〔(Sky Vision buys Lorenzo stake in Pilipino Cable - The Philippine Star » News » Business )〕 * In 1997, SkyCable launches its first cable TV branded credit card in the Philippines, the SkyCard MasterCard with SolidBank and the SkyCard-Citibank MasterCard with Citibank N. A.〔(Lopez Holdings Corporation )〕 * In 2001, Benpress Holdings Inc. and Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company signed a master consolidation agreement for SkyCable Corporation to consolidate its interest.〔(Lopez Holdings Corporation )〕 * In July 2001, Unilink Communications Corp. operator of Home Cable, Philippines second largest cable TV company, merged its CATV operation to SkyCable and created Beyond Cable Inc. with an enterprise value of P14.5 billion. Beyond Cable Inc. controls 66.5% through Benpress Holdings Corp. and 33.5% through MediaQuest Holdings, Inc.〔(Home, SkyCable merge - The Philippine Star » News » Business )〕〔(GMA Network opposes SkyCable-Home Cable full consolidation )〕 * On December 7, 2001, Beyond Cable Holdings Inc. was incorporated.〔 * In April 2008, then ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation (now ABS-CBN Corporation), which owns about two-thirds of the equity of SkyCable, started consolidating the cable company’s fiscal result into its financial report including SkyCable’s general and administrative expenses or the GAEX.〔http://ir.abs-cbn.com/ir/shareholderfaqs.aspx〕 * In May 2011, Singaporean firm Sampaquita Communications Pte. Ltd. acquired 40 percent of SkyCable through Philippine Depositary Receipts worth P3.612 billion and P250 million of convertible notes to fund the expansion of SkyCable’s broadband Internet and cable TV services.〔(Business - Singaporean firm gets 40% of SkyCable - INQUIRER. net )〕 * On May 11, 2012, SkyCable bought Destiny Cable Inc., Uni-Cable TV Inc. and Solid Broadband Corp. 's cable TV and broadband internet assets and subscribers with consolidating value of P3.497 billion.〔http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/business/05/11/12/sky-cable-buys-destiny-cable’s-assets〕〔http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/business/05/14/12/skycable-aims-grow-market-signs-3-deals〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「SkyCable」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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