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Altibox AS

Formerly	Lyse Tele AS
Company type	Aksjeselskap
Industry	Telecommunications
Founded	May 30, 2002; 22 years ago (2002-05-30) in Stavanger, Norway
Areas served	Norway and Denmark
Services	Broadband IPTV VoIP
Parent	Lyse Energi
Website	altibox.no

Altibox is a unified brand name for Broadband, IPTV and VoIP services distributed in Norway and Denmark with over 35 local Norwegian and 6 Danish FTTH networks. Altibox was set up by Southwestern Norwegian multi-utility firm Lyse Energi in 2002 under the name Lyse Tele. The company subsequently changed its name to Altibox in 2009.

The vast majority of Altibox customers self-install (over 80 percent).

In 2016, Altibox became the sponsor and namesake of the Altibox Norway Chess Tournament, an annual event that has been called the strongest chess tournament in the world.

In December 2019, the company announced that it had bought all the shares in Skagenfiber, a provider of subsea cables from Norway to Denmark and Norway to Newcastle (UK).

References

1. Planen var 28.000 norske fiberkunder. Det kan du trygt si de slo
2. Norway raises $445 million from 5G spectrum sale
3. Netflix og Xbox skal hjelpe Altibox i kampen om TV-kundene
4. Investment in Nordic Networks Continues as Altibox Buys Skagenfiber

External links

• Official site
• Arstechnica article
• Broadband TV news article

• Telecommunications in Norway
• Norwegian companies established in 2002
• TvOS software