A Dictionary of Dutchness

Ziggo

Ziggo is the name of the company created by the merger of three cable tv and internet providers: Casema, @home and Multikabel. Ziggo has some 3.3 million cable and 1.4 million internet subscribers, 800,000 digital tv and 700,000 telecom customers. It also managed to attract 14,664 complaints about poor service in the first six days of its existence in 2008. ‘Unique,’ says the consumers association.