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Who owned Boxer TV Access from 2000 to 2005?
Boxer TV Access Boxer TV Access is a Swedish brand owned by Tele2 AB providing pay television channels on the digital terrestrial television network in Sweden . Modeled on the British ITV Digital , it was founded in October 1999 . Some channels on the Swedish DTT are free-to-air , but most of the channels require subscription from Boxer . Boxer has claimed to have around 500,000 subscribers by June 2016 when it was acquired by ComHem . Boxer offers dozens of channels , with the number of channels varying depending on location and how one wants to count . As of early 2008 , channels from Boxer broadcast on four national transmitter networks , of which three ( MUX2 , MUX3 and MUX4 ) can be received by 98 percent of the population using a regular antenna . The fourth network , named MUX5 , has lower coverage . Another transmitter network ( MUX1 ) has higher coverage but it doesnt contain any Boxer channels . The majority shareholder was held in Boxer TV Access by Teracom which is owned by the Swedish state . The British venture capital firm 3i held a 30 percent stake . Teracom acquired this 30% stake from 3i in November 2008 . Teracom sees this 100% stake as a logical next step . 3I had held the 30% having acquired the shares from Skandia Media Invest in 2005 . With its 100% stake , Teracom moves from majority to sole shareholder in Boxer . Teracom has always been the main shareholder in Boxer and acquiring all the shares is a logical continuation of that ownership . Boxer will continue its successful business in the same manner as before , that is being a pay-TV operator dedicated to terrestrial platforms and working independently of any individual broadcaster , says Crister Fritzson , CEO of Teracom . In March 2008 , Boxer TV A/S , a subsidiary of Boxer TV Access , won the franchise to build and operate the terrestrial pay television platform in Denmark . In February 2009 it launched this service in Jutland covering West Denmark . This service will extend during 2009 to most of Denmark . In 2008 , Boxer announced that it had put in a bid to operate three of the four multiplexes of the DTT service for Ireland , in conjunction with Irish company Communicorp . On 21 July 2008 Boxer DTT Ireland were awarded the Irish franchise Boxer TV Ireland subject to contract . However , on 20 April 2009 the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland announced that contract negotiations had ended and Boxer DTT Ireland had withdrawn its application to operate the multiplexes . In 2016 , Swedens operator Com Hem announced it had acquired Boxer TV-Access AB for an enterprise value of SEK 1,330m . Channels . - MPEG-4 indicates that the channel requires a DVB-T or DVB-T2 receiver with MPEG-4 support . - HDTV indicates that the channel requires a HD-ready TV and a DVB-T2 HDTV receiver . Monopoly distribution . Boxer had a monopoly for encrypted of television signals in the digital terrestrial network . If a broadcaster got to distribute television it had to either broadcast free-to-air or use the encryption services of Boxer . This was a contravention to European Union rules which require that there is an open market for radio and television broadcasting . On 17 October 2006 the European Commission announced that it was taking Sweden to the European Court of Justice for failure to abolish the monopoly . Neelie Kroes , Commissioner for Competition , said : I regret that I have had to refer Sweden to the Court , but Swedish viewers should no longer be denied their right , guaranteed by ( EU ) law , to choose digital terrestrial TV suppliers . The case against Sweden at the European Court of Justice taken by the European Commission , has since been withdrawn as a result of Swedens amendment of the broadcast regulations . Previously , Sweden only allowed a single operator to handle all encryption services on the DTT platform but under the amended regulation , new operators will be able to offer encrypted DTT services making it possible for them to launch pay-DTT services .