UPC Netherlands

UPC Nederland B.V.

Former type	Besloten Vennootschap
Industry	Telecommunications
Successor	Ziggo
Founded	1998
Defunct	2015
Headquarters	Amsterdam, Netherlands
Area served	Parts of: Flevoland Friesland Gelderland North Brabant North Holland South Holland
Products	Cable television Broadband Internet Telephony
Parent	Liberty Global
Website	upc.nl

UPC Nederland (English: UPC Netherlands) was the second largest cable operator in the Netherlands, providing cable television (digital and analogue), broadband Internet, and telephone service to both residential and commercial customers.

In early 2015, UPC Nederland started merging with Ziggo. The name UPC was finally phased out in favor of Ziggo on 13 April 2015.

UPC Nederland was formed in 1995 as a joint venture between the Philips Electronics and United International Holdings, a United States-owned media company, setting off on a path of quick acquisition of the Netherlands' then mostly regional TV cable operators, many of whom were already partially owned by Philips. The South-Eastern and Eastern cable networks were unified under the UPC name in 1998, with other networks, the largest being the Amsterdam A2000 network, joining later.

Some of the larger cable companies bought by UPC were: A2000 (Amsterdam and surrounding regions), Telekabel (Gelderland, Brabant, and Friesland), Gelrevision (Northern part of the Veluwe, South-east Flevoland and East Gelderland),Eneco K&T (Rotterdam and surrounding regions),Combivisie (Brabant) and several smaller and mid-sized networks.

On 27 January 2014 Liberty Global announced that it would acquire Ziggo. In December 2014 the shares of Ziggo N.V. were delisted from Euronext Amsterdam as Ziggo was converted into the Dutch private limited company Ziggo Holding B.V. (Besloten Vennootschap), owned by Liberty Global. On 5 January 2015 Ziggo started to harmonize its cable network with the UPC Nederland cable network. The name UPC was finally phased out in favor of Ziggo on 13 April 2015.

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