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Portugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...

 private telecommunications operator, founded on September 27, 1993, and in 1995 obtains the licences to start operating.
It bought Pluricanal Aveiro S.A. to Pluricanal.

It offers Cable Television
Cable television
Cable television is a system of providing television programs to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted to televisions through coaxial cables or digital light pulses through fixed optical fibers located on the subscriber's property, much like the over-the-air method used in traditional...

, Internet
Internet
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...

 and Telephone
Telephone
The telephone , colloquially referred to as a phone, is a telecommunications device that transmits and receives sounds, usually the human voice. Telephones are a point-to-point communication system whose most basic function is to allow two people separated by large distances to talk to each other...

 services.

It is owned by Cogeco
Cogeco
Cogeco Inc. is a Canadian media and communications company. The name is an acronym for Compagnie Générale de Communication .-History:...

.

Television

Television packages can be acquired separatly or in group, through packages Duplo (Double Play) and Triplo (Triple Play).

Television channels

  • AXN
    AXN
    AXN is a Pay television, cable and satellite television channel owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, which was first launched on May 22, 1997. The network is now spread across several regions in the world, including Japan, Europe, other parts of Asia and Latin America...

  • BBC Entertainment
    BBC Entertainment
    BBC Entertainment is an international television channel showcasing comedy, drama, light entertainment and children's programming from the BBC and other UK production houses...

  • BBC World
    BBC World
    BBC World News is the BBC's international news and current affairs television channel. It has the largest audience of any BBC channel in the world...

  • Bloomberg
    Bloomberg Television
    Bloomberg Television is a 24-hour global network broadcasting business and financial news. It is distributed globally, reaching over 200 million homes worldwide. It is owned and operated by Bloomberg L.P...

  • Canal de História
    Canal de Historia
    Canal de História is the only thematic channel dedicated to the history of television in Spain and Portugal. The Chello Multicanal produces and distributes Canal de Historia in Spain and Portugal through its agreement with A&E, creator of the History Channel, which is present in 130 countries and...

  • Canal Panda
    Canal Panda
    Canal Panda is the first Portuguese cable television channel dedicated to children's programming, mostly animated series. The channel was founded in 1996 as Panda Club in Spain and Portugal, but the name was changed to Canal Panda in 1997. In 2000, the channel left Spain, thus concentrating...

  • Canal V! (exclusive)
  • Cartoon Network
    Cartoon Network (Latin America)
    Cartoon Network Latin America and Brazil is a cable television channel and is an edition of the Time Warner-owned Cartoon Network for the Latin American region and the Caribbean...

     / TCM
    TCM
    -Arts and sciences:* Trinity College of Music, a leading music conservatory, based in Greenwich, London, United Kingdom* Theory of Condensed Matter group, a theoretical physics research group in the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge...

  • CNN International
    CNN
    Cable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...

  • Discovery Channel
    Discovery Channel
    Discovery Channel is an American satellite and cable specialty channel , founded by John Hendricks and distributed by Discovery Communications. It is a publicly traded company run by CEO David Zaslav...

  • Disney Cinemagic
    Disney Cinemagic
    Disney Cinemagic is the premium subscription movie service, available through Sky, TalkTalk TV and Virgin Media. The channel first appeared on 16 March 2006, airing previews, preparing for the official launch that took place at 17:00 on 19 March 2006....

     - Premium
  • Disney Cinemagic HD - Premium
  • Disney Channel
    Disney Channel
    Disney Channel is an American basic cable and satellite television network, owned by the Disney-ABC Television Group division of The Walt Disney Company. It is under the direction of Disney-ABC Television Group President Anne Sweeney. The channel's headquarters is located on West Alameda Ave. in...

  • ESPN Classic
    ESPN Classic
    ESPN Classic is a sports channel that features reruns of famous sporting events, sports documentaries, and sports themed movies. Such programs includes biographies of famous sports figures or a rerun of a famous World Series or Super Bowl, often with added commentary on the event...

  • Eurosport
    Eurosport
    Eurosport is a pan-European television sport network operated by French broadcaster TF1 Group. The network of channels are available in 59 countries, in 20 different languages providing viewers with European and international sporting events...

  • Eurosport 2
    Eurosport 2
    Eurosport 2 is a European sports television network. It is a sister channel to Eurosport and Eurosport News. Several different versions of the channel exist across Europe, where television rights for sport differ.-Launch:...

  • Fashion TV
    Fashion TV
    Fashion TV is an international fashion and lifestyle broadcasting television channel. It was founded in France in 1997 by its Polish-born president Michel Adam Lisowski, Fashion TV is the only 24/7 international TV network exclusively dedicated to fashion, beauty, glamour and style and has become...

  • FOX
    Fox Broadcasting Company
    Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...

  • FOX HD
    Fox Broadcasting Company
    Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...

  • Canal Hollywood
    Canal Hollywood
    Canal Hollywood is a movies cable channel available in Spain and Portugal.Owned by Dreamia , Canal Hollywood was founded in 1995, and was one of the first Iberian cable channels ever. It presents movies by all of the major studios.In 2011 was created a version in HD in both countries.- External...

  • Hustler TV
    Hustler TV
    Hustler TV is an American pornographic premium television channel available through satellite, video on demand and digital cable. The channel is dedicated to offering explicit adult material, uncut and uncensored from Hustler, one of the most well known brands in adult entertainment. The channel...

     - Premium
  • TVC1
    TVCine
    TVCine is a Portuguese premium television brand used on four movie channels, operated by ZON Multimédia. They showcase recent movies and premieres from all the major studios, as well as comedy, action, classic and old movies....

     - Premium
  • TVC2
    TVCine
    TVCine is a Portuguese premium television brand used on four movie channels, operated by ZON Multimédia. They showcase recent movies and premieres from all the major studios, as well as comedy, action, classic and old movies....

    - Premium
  • TVC3
    TVCine
    TVCine is a Portuguese premium television brand used on four movie channels, operated by ZON Multimédia. They showcase recent movies and premieres from all the major studios, as well as comedy, action, classic and old movies....

     - Premium
  • TVC
    TVCine
    TVCine is a Portuguese premium television brand used on four movie channels, operated by ZON Multimédia. They showcase recent movies and premieres from all the major studios, as well as comedy, action, classic and old movies....

     - Premium
  • M6
  • MCM TOP
    MCM
    -Science and technology:* Thousand circular mils or kcmil, the wire gauge is equivalent cross sectional area * Million cubic metre, the unit of volume...

  • MGM
  • Motors TV
    Motors TV
    Motors TV is a television channel dedicated to news, documentaries and coverage of motorsport and automobiles, and to a lesser extent motorbikes, boats, aircraft and models. It is available in many countries via satellite and cable, with audio in English, French, German and Serbian...

  • MTV Portugal
    MTV Portugal
    MTV Portugal is a 24-hour general entertainment channel serving Portugal.The channel was launched on July 1, 2003 replacing MTV Europe within the territory. In its initial stages MTV Portugal shared similar content to MTV Spain and MTV Italy, while also airing programming from MTV US and MTV Europe...

  • National Geographic Channel
    National Geographic Channel
    National Geographic Channel, also commercially abbreviated and trademarked as Nat Geo, is a subscription television channel that airs non-fiction television programs produced by the National Geographic Society. Like History and the Discovery Channel, the channel features documentaries with factual...

  • National Geographic Channel HD
  • Odisseia
  • People+Arts
    People+Arts
    Liv is an entertainment television channel in Latin America. It is jointly owned by Discovery Communications.The channel was launched in October 1997 as the local version of Travel Channel...

  • Playboy TV
    Playboy TV
    Playboy TV is a premium monthly subscription television channel. Since its launch in 1982 in partnership with Cablevision which eventually sold their share back to Playboy, Playboy TV has become a leading entertainment channel for adult entertainment...

     - Premium
  • Rai Uno
    Rai Uno
    Rai 1 is the primary television station of RAI, the national public service broadcaster, and the most watched television channel in Italy. It was born as Rai Tv from 1954 to 1961, called Programma Nazionale from 1961 to 1979, after called Rete 1 from 1979 to 1982, then called Rai Uno from 1982 to...

  • Rede Record Internacional
    Rede Record
    Rede Record de Televisão is a Brazilian television network, founded in 1953 by Paulo Machado de Carvalho, also founder of Rádio Record. Currently it is owned by businessman Edir Macedo, founder and bishop of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God. Since 2007 it is Brazil's second largest...

  • RTP1
  • RTP2
  • RTPN
    RTPN
    RTP Informação is a Portuguese 24-hour news channel operated by Rádio e Televisão de Portugal available on cable and satellite. The channel was launched in 2001 as NTV, a cable news channel headquartered in Porto. It was originally a joint-venture between PT Multimédia, Lusomundo and the...

  • RTP África
    RTP África
    RTP África is a terrestrial television channel for the Portuguese-speaking African countries owned by RTP with programming from Portuguese public and private television channels and African public networks, RTP África also airs its own news, food and music TV shows...

  • RTP Memória
    RTP Memória
    RTP Memória is a Portuguese television channel that airs mainly classic Radiotelevisão Portuguesa programming and foreign entertainment programming...

  • Sat.1
    Sat.1
    Sat.1 is a privately owned German television broadcasting station. Sat.1 was the first privately owned television broadcasting station in Germany, having started one day before RTL Television....

  • SIC
  • SIC Notícias
    SIC Notícias
    SIC Notícias is the cable news channel of the Portuguese television network SIC and the second thematic channel of the station. It replaced CNL , a Lisbon region independent cable news channel owned by TV Cabo, on January 8, 2001...

  • SIC Mulher
    Sic mulher
    SIC Mulher is a Portuguese cable television channel owned by Sociedade Independente de Comunicação and launched on March 8, 2003...

  • SIC Radical
    SIC Radical
    SIC Radical is a cable television channel in Portugal owned by Sociedade Independente de Comunicação.SIC Radical is an entertainment channel targeted at teens and young adults. Programs are mostly imported, mainly from the United States and the United Kingdom...

  • Sky News
    Sky News
    Sky News is a 24-hour British and international satellite television news broadcaster with an emphasis on UK and international news stories.The service places emphasis on rolling news, including the latest breaking news. Sky News also hosts localised versions of the channel in Australia and in New...

  • Sony Asia - Premium
  • SportTV 1
    Sport TV
    SportTV is the brand name for a group of seven Portuguese sports-oriented television channels. SportTV is the dominant subscription television sports brand in Portugal. The first channel, then known as only SportTV, was launched on 16 September 1998 and is produced by ZON Multimédia and...

     - Premium
  • SportTV 2
    Sport TV
    SportTV is the brand name for a group of seven Portuguese sports-oriented television channels. SportTV is the dominant subscription television sports brand in Portugal. The first channel, then known as only SportTV, was launched on 16 September 1998 and is produced by ZON Multimédia and...

     - Premium
  • SportTV 3
    Sport TV
    SportTV is the brand name for a group of seven Portuguese sports-oriented television channels. SportTV is the dominant subscription television sports brand in Portugal. The first channel, then known as only SportTV, was launched on 16 September 1998 and is produced by ZON Multimédia and...

     - Premium
  • SportTV HD
    Sport TV
    SportTV is the brand name for a group of seven Portuguese sports-oriented television channels. SportTV is the dominant subscription television sports brand in Portugal. The first channel, then known as only SportTV, was launched on 16 September 1998 and is produced by ZON Multimédia and...

     - Premium
  • The Biography Channel
    The Biography Channel
    The Biography Channel is an American digital cable television channel owned by A&E and based on the television series of the same name. A version of the channel also airs on ONO and Telefónica in Spain and on Sky Digital and cable television in the United Kingdom, a version of the channel also...

  • Travel Channel
    Travel Channel
    The Travel Channel is a satellite and cable television channel that is headquartered in Chevy Chase, Maryland, US. It features documentaries and how-to shows related to travel and leisure around the United States and throughout the world. Programming has included shows in African animal safaris,...

  • Television de Galicia
  • TV5 Monde
  • TVE Internacional
    TVE Internacional
    TVE Internacional is an internationally-broadcast Spanish language channel run by Spain's national broadcaster, TVE. Programming includes a mix of news, discussion-based programmes and drama and documentaries from TVE's La 1 and La 2 Spanish networks. It was launched in 1989...

  • TVI
    TVI (Portugal)
    Televisão Independente is Portugal's fourth terrestrial television channel, launched in 1993. It has been leading audience ratings since 2005. It competes directly with SIC and RTP1.-History:...

  • VH1
    VH1
    VH1 or Vh1 is an American cable television network based in New York City. Launched on January 1, 1985 in the old space of Turner Broadcasting's short-lived Cable Music Channel, the original purpose of the channel was to build on the success of MTV by playing music videos, but targeting a slightly...

  • Zone Reality
    Zone Reality
    Zone Reality is a European reality television channel.Zone Reality broadcasts in both analogue and digital to over 120 million viewers throughout Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America....



Cabovisão Digital exclusive channels
  • TV Canção Nova
  • Nat Geo Wild
  • Fox Crime
    Fox Crime
    Fox Crime is a television network, launched by the Fox International Channels, which airs across several countries of Europe and Asia, such as Italy, Spain, Portugal, Slovenia and Bulgaria...

  • Baby TV
  • Animax
    Animax
    is a Japanese anime satellite television network, dedicated to broadcasting anime programming. A subsidiary of Japanese media conglomerate Sony, it is headquartered in in Minato, Tokyo, Japan, with its co-founders and shareholders including Sony Pictures Entertainment and the noted anime studios...

  • BenficaTV
  • Boomerang
    Boomerang
    A boomerang is a flying tool with a curved shape used as a weapon or for sport.-Description:A boomerang is usually thought of as a wooden device, although historically boomerang-like devices have also been made from bones. Modern boomerangs used for sport are often made from carbon fibre-reinforced...

  • ESPN America
  • Chasse et Pêche
    Chasse et Pêche
    Chasse et Pêche is a French television channel dedicated to hunting and fishing.-History of the channel:Created in April 1996 for the AB Sat package, Chasse et Pêche is a channel based around hunting and fishing for sport, and those who enjoy them....

  • MCM Pop
  • Trace TV
    Trace TV
    Trace Urban is a French music video television network devoted to play urban contemporary music videos, founded by the French businessmen Olivier Laouchez and Claude Grunitzky....

  • Afro Music
  • Mezzo
    Mezzo
    mezzo is the Italian word for "half", "middle" or "medium". It is pronounced in English, but in Italian.In music, mezzo is the beginning of various Italian musical terms...

  • Classic FM TV
    Classic FM TV
    Classic FM TV is a web based internet channel owned by Classic FM. Until 14 December 2007 it was available as a television channel on the Sky Digital and Virgin Media cable TV services. Classic FM TV now only broadcasts online in the United Kingdom via the Internet.- Other media :Classic FM TV is...

  • Nat Geo Music
    Nat Geo Music
    Nat Geo Music was a music TV channel, owned in Italy by Fox International Channels Italy, which used to broadcast documentaries concerning 'the meeting between music and culture' around the world. The channel used to be broadcast only in Italy and Portugal...

  • E! Entertainment
  • Zone Club
    Zone Club
    Zone Club is a European lifestyle and entertainment channel. The channel focuses on six different programme categories: style, health, home, travel, food and relationships...

  • Sony Entertainment Television
    Sony Entertainment Television (Portugal)
    Sony Entertainment Television in Portugal is a television channel operated by Sony Pictures Television International Networks Iberia. Its programming is basically focused on television series and movies. The channel was launched in Portugal on April 14, 2008, as part of the meo and Optimus Clix TV...

  • Arte
    Arte
    Arte is a Franco-German TV network. It is a European culture channel and aims to promote quality programming especially in areas of culture and the arts...

  • Casa Club
  • Luxe TV
  • Wine TV
    Wine TV
    Wine TV or Wine Network was a digital cable & satellite television channel that aired programming about Wine and Spirits. It was the only such channel in the world, featuring programming dedicated to wine lovers including shows about wine making, wine growing, wine selection, cooking with wine and...

  • France 24
    France 24
    France 24 is an international news and current affairs television channel. The service is aimed at the overseas market, similar to BBC World News, DW-TV, NHK World and RT, and broadcast through satellite and cable operators throughout the world. During 2010 the channel started broadcasting through...

  • Al Jazeera
    Al Jazeera
    Al Jazeera is an independent broadcaster owned by the state of Qatar through the Qatar Media Corporation and headquartered in Doha, Qatar...

  • Record News
    Record News
    Record News is the first 24-hour free-to-air terrestrial news channel in Brazil. It is owned by Rede Record.-History:In 1953, Rede Record de Televisão started as the second Brazilian TV channel . As the network completes 54 years, a new channel has been started by it. This is the first Brazilian...

  • Andalucia
  • Deutsche Welle
    Deutsche Welle
    Deutsche Welle or DW, is Germany's international broadcaster. The service is aimed at the overseas market. It broadcasts news and information on shortwave, Internet and satellite radio on 98.7 DZFE in 30 languages . It has a satellite television service , that is available in four languages, and...

  • Inter+
    Inter (TV channel)
    Inter is the major TV channel in Ukraine. Based on it later was formed the whole new media group with variety of different other channels. Inter is among the top-rated networks in Ukraine, competing with such as 1+1 and Pershyi Natsionalnyi channels...

  • RITV
  • Porto Canal
    Porto Canal
    Porto Canal is a metropolitan television station for Greater Porto, Portugal based in Matosinhos. It has rapidly taken a hold of late night ratings, due to its programming being extremely rich in unintentional humor...

  • Telesur
    Telesur
    Telesur may refer to* teleSUR, a Latin American terrestrial and satellite television network* Telesur , a telecommunications operator from Suriname...


Internet

Through the designation Netvisão, through television network and through DOCSIS
DOCSIS
Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification is an international telecommunications standard that permits the addition of high-speed data transfer to an existing cable TV system...

 (for regular packages) and DOCSIS 3.0 (for Nitro packages), Cabovisão sells Internet services, commercializing five connections:
Services Download Speed Upload Speed Download Traffic Upload Traffic Price
Netvisão Banda Larga 3Mb 3Mb 256Kb 10 GB (Happy-hours from 1h until 9h) Unlimited 17,99€ / month
Netvisão Banda Larga 10Mb 10Mb 512Kb Depending on the chosen package Unlimited 23,99€ / month
Netvisão Banda Larga 30Mb 30Mb 1Mb Depending on the chosen package Unlimited 44,99€ / month
Nitro 60Mb 60Mb 3Mb Unlimited Unlimited 63,65€ / month (1 year promotion - 58,65€ / month)
Nitro 120Mb 120Mb 6Mb Unlimited Unlimited 70,65€ / month (1 year promotion - 65,65€ / month)

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