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Below: ANGA party night during the show

In 2016, ANGA COM attracted 450 exhibitors and 18,000 participants from 76 countries. The event attracted a 52 per- cent share of international visitors as well as a visitor increase of 6 per cent on the previous year. ANGA COM provides a broadband and audiovisual media-focused marketplace for network operators, vendors and content providers all over Europe. ANGA COM is organised by the Association of German Cable Operators (ANGA). The association represents the interests of the German cable industry and its work focuses on the improvement of competition conditions for this sector. Amongst the 200 member companies are Astra; Eutelsat; Media Broadcast; Telekom Deutschland; Unitymedia and Vodafone. Further members are leading system providers such as ARRIS; Astro Strobel; Cisco; Kathrein; Nagra; Nokia; Teleste; Triax and Wisi. ANGA’s network operators supply almost 18 million households with TV signals. Approximately 6.6 million

households use their cable connection for broadband Internet and 6.3 million households use it for telephony.

SCTE and ANGA bursary programme The SCTE TM (Society for Broadband Professionals) and ANGA (The Association of German Cable Operators) sent twenty lucky winners of the SCTE/ANGA bursaries to this year’s ANGA COM conference and exhibition. SCTE members have the opportunity to apply again for bursaries to ANGA COM in 2017. The bursary winners were mainly chosen from various international cable operators (such as Virgin Media, IPKO and others). They each received a package that included pre-paid flights and hotel accommodation for three nights (courtesy of the SCTE) and entrance to the full conference offering (courtesy of ANGA). Bursary winners must be members of the SCTE. The SCTE held a party for all bursary winners, SCTE

Above: The ANGA COM conference

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Vol. 38 No. 4 - November 2016 Issue