Toggle (Flarland)

Toggle is a Flarlandian telecommunications company founded in 2014 from the merger of the IBC pay-TV operation Flow and local cable providers. It is owned by Toggle Telecom, created in 2014 following the sell of IBC's telecommunication assets.
==History==
===Cable experiments===
The first known large-scale cable television experiments were conducted in Wembley in 1980. By the middle of the decade, these have manifested themselves into two cable companies: Wembley Cable and Whitecastle Cable. By then the local cable industry was already stating to expand, largely due to the creation of Satellite Broadcasters a couple years earlier, who beamed its first channels to interested local cable providers.
In 1986, Cable Wembley had an estimated 40.000 subscribers. These accounted to around half of the cable subscriptions of the time.
===FST launches===
A deregulation of the satellite industry in late 1985 meant that a second satellite television operator had to be in operation by the end of the decade. The winner behind the license was IBC, who decided to launch Flarlandian Satellite Television (FST). It began regular operations in October 1987. This marked the start of IBC's long-running experience in the field of telecommunications.
Months before launching, it acquired the rights to feature films of half the studios Satellite Broadcasters had, as well as shaping up the first sports channel in Flarland. While initially it had good relations with Satellite Broadcasters, as the years went on the relations became more "divided" as the two providers were competing for their offers. In 1989, FSB launched as a protest against the competition, but failed considerably.
===Later developments of cable and creation of Cable Flarland===
In order to control a key part of the cable and television industry, IBC bought Cable Wembley in June 1989. Using the expertise of its regional operations, they managed to either buy or set up local cable operators, thus creating a loose federation called Cable Flarland in October 1989. Initially Cable Flarland was not a company name but the combination of all cable operators that had existed at the time. It was speculated in 1990 that IBC and its regional counterparts were owning 80% of the cable networks in Flarland. There were even plans to invest in Ashtalaia's cable networks, but the plans were halted.
As a consequence of the 1990 Commercial Broadcasting Act, IBC was forced to merge two of its companies, Cable Wembley and Cable Northwest, into the Cable Flarland company in July 1992. The holding formerly known as Cable Flarland was now renamed Flarlandian Cable Networks (FCN).
===Satellite dominance===
By 1991, FST now had twice the subscribers as Satellite Broadcasters. The satellite war was now getting more intense as the two companies had to battle for who had the better programming. This led to Satellite Broadcasters' removal of the basic FST channels apart from Network 7 due to must-carry regulations.
FST was now Flarland's leading subscription television company.
===Merging the brands===
In 2007, IBC Telecommunications decided to introduce a 12-month plan to abandon the old FST and Cable Flarland brands, to be replaced by a new brand, Flow. The Flow brand was introduced in January 2008.
===Toggle===
At the same time the renaming deal was on the cards, talks of a merger with Unity Telecom were underway.
==Offer==
List of channels on Toggle