Kabel Deutschland’s VoD footprint reaches 5.5m homes

Kabel Deutschland, the German cableco owned by Vodafone Group, has expanded the coverage of its video on demand (VoD) service to a number of new towns and cities, including Bayreuth, Buxtehude, Erlangen, Gera, Jever, Michendorf, Muhlhausen, Nordhorn, Potsdam, Sonthofen and Uelzen. An additional 300,000 households are now able to access Select Video’s content library of more than 11,000 television programmes and films, raising total coverage to 5.5 million homes in over 140 towns and cities. The service was first launched in March 2011. Kabel Deutschland operates cable networks in 13 federal states in Germany and supplies approximately 8.3 million connected households.