Telia adds HBO to TV offering

News Video Sweden 15 NOV 2012
Telia adds HBO to TV offering
Swedish operator Telia has launched the new HBO service as part of its TV offering. This means that Telia's almost 500,000 TV customers can watch new episodes of the channel's popular series subtitled in Swedish within one day of the original broadcast. The price for HBO will be SEK 79 per month, and customers can watch it on TV as well as on computer, phones and tablets. On TV, it will also be available in HD quality. In conjunction with the launch, Telia is offering the HBO package for six months to existing as well as new TV customers. In addition to the channel's daily 24-hour programming, with new series from HBO and other content providers such as Starz, the offer includes all the past seasons of classic series from HBO as well as a selection of library movies. Telia will be the first TV operator to launch the HBO service in the Nordic countries. Sweden will be the first market, followed by Finland later in 2012. The channel is also expected to launch eventually in Norway and Denmark.

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