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Sky Cable Corporation (or simply Sky and stylized as SKY) is a Filipino cable telecommunications company and the country's largest cable television provider. It is a subsidiary of the media conglomerate ABS-CBN Corporation and is based in Pasig City. Sky operates in Mega Manila and provincially through its various subsidiaries. Sky was founded on June 6, 1990 as Central CATV, Inc. by Benpres Holdings Corporation (now Lopez Holdings Corporation). Today it expanded to offer digital cable, broadband internet, VoIP (discontinued in 2013), mobile internet, video streaming, and video on demand services to its over 840 thousands subscribers nationwide. ==History== On 6 June 1990, Sky Cable Corporation was incorporated as Central CATV, Inc.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.lopezgroup.org/members/281-sky-cable.html?tmpl=component )〕 On 25 March 1991, Sky Vision Corporation, a holding company incorporated with the primary purpose of buying and owning stocks of Central CATV, Inc. was founded. On March 30, 1995, Central CATV Inc. was granted a 25-year provisional franchise to establish, construct, maintain and operate community antenna television system in the Philippines through Republic Act 7969.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.chanrobles.com/republicacts/republicactno7969.html )〕 In 1997, Sky Vision Corporation acquired 47% of Pilipino Cable Corporation for 900 million pesos. In 2001, Sky Cable and Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company's Home Cable entered into a master consolidation agreement to form the holding company Beyond Cable, Inc.〔 In April 2008, then ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation (now ABS-CBN Corporation), started consolidating the cable company’s fiscal result into its financial statement.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://ir.abs-cbn.com/ir/shareholderfaqs.aspx )〕 In May 2011, Singapore-based firm Sampaquita Communications Pte., Ltd. acquired 40 percent of Sky Cable through Philippine Depositary Receipts (PDR) worth 3.612 billion and 250 million pesos of convertible notes to fund the expansion of Sky Cable’s broadband internet and cable television services. On 11 May 2012, Sky Cable acquired the assets of Destiny Cable (from Destiny Cable Inc.), UniCable (from Uni-Cable TV, Inc.) and MyDestiny broadband internet (from Solid Broadband Corporation) with consolidating value of 3.497 billion pesos. In 2013, SkyCable revenues increased by 18% to P6.99 billion from P5.94 billion. The growth in SkyCable revenues was partly attributable to the acquisition of Destiny Cable, Inc. Postpaid revenues grew by 16% and broadband revenues by 33%. SKY’s cable TV subscriber count improved by 10 percent as of the end of 2012 while SKYbroadband registered a 44 percent percent growth on its base versus the previous year. In 2013, Sky discontinued its voice over IP service and started offering bundled plans with ABS-CBNmobile postpaid service which includes a wireless landline connection, SMS, and voice. According to news reports by Interaksyon and ''Manila Times'', Sky is planning to enter the direct-to-home television market by investing as much as 252 million pesos to roll-out direct broadcast satellite service across 251 cities and municipalities in the Philippines. 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「Sky (cable company)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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