Vision Communications

Vision Communications is a Salerian media and telecommunications conglomerate that was founded in August 1988. The company provides fixed-line internet, mobile and subscription television services to their subscribers in Saleria and its overseas territories.

History
Vision Communications was founded sometime in August 1988 by Leone Harris. Harris proposed a plan to launch a satellite television service that would compete with the then-rival TeleCavo cable TV service (now Vision TV).

On 31 July 1989, the same date that Sky One became a UK and Ireland-only channel, the company announced in a press conference that they would launch three channels, a general entertainment channel (under the name Canale Vision), a movie channel (under the name Vision Movies) and a sports channel (under the name Vision Sports), which they would be expected to launch by early 1990. However by early 1990, only Canale Vision (now Vision Entertainment) and Vision Movies (now Cinevision) were launched on the Astra 1A satellite, while Vision Sports was launched four year later as part of the subscription-based Vision Sat (now Vision Direct) satellite TV package.

On 09 March 1994, Vision Communications launched Vision Sat (now Vision Direct), which it was the first direct-to-home satellite service to be officially broadcast in Saleria. On the same year, the company launched VisionLink (then Vision DSL, now Vision Broadband), which it was marked as the first commercially available Internet service provider in the country.

In 1995, Vision Communications entered the mobile telecommunications market by launching its GSM-powered digital cellular services under the VisionLink Mobile brand (now Vision Mobile).

In 1998, Vision Sat began broadcasting in digital using the DVB-S digital satellite standard. It was the first digital television service to be broadcast in Saleria, two years before the introduction of its digital terrestrial television service in the country. Analog satellite transmissions were closed down on 30 December 2003 and viewers who weren't able to switch to the digital service at the time received a free upgrade to the digital service.

In 01 March 2001, Vision Communications began to provide ADSL-based broadband connections to new and existing subscribers for the first time in Saleria under the name Vision DSL. The company would eventually rebrand its broadband service in 2004 under the current name, Vision Broadband.

On 01 November 2005, Vision Communications acquired the then-rival cable television provider TeleCavo. Former Vision Communications CEO, Enrico De Bartolo, told The Saleria Journal that the acquisition would "benefit new and existing subscribers of the service." At the end of 2005, it was rebranded to Vision TV in order keep in line with the company's branding.

In 2010, Vision Communications acquired CineStream, which it was the oldest streaming television service in Saleria. The service was eventually rebranded to Vision On Demand in late 2010 and finally, Vision TV Now in 2020.

On the 20th of October 2021, Vision Communications announced its plans to sell its Vision Direct direct-to-home pay television service to Sky Group sometime in early 2022.

Vision Direct
Vision Direct is the flagship direct-to-home, pay television service of Vision Communications. The service provides over 254 digital television channels that are transmitted in either DVB-S (for standard definition channels) or DVB-S2 (for high-definition and 4K channels) digital satellite television format. All of its channels on the service are transmitted from the satellites of Astra 1KR, Astra 1L and Astra 1M at 19.2° East.

Vision TV
Vision TV is the cable TV service of Vision Communications. The service provides the same number of channels as Vision Direct that are transmitted in either DVB-C (for standard definition channels) or DVB-C2 (for high-definition and 4K channels) digital cable television format.

Vision Fiber
Vision Fiber is the flagship internet service provider that belongs as a subsidiary of Vision Communications. It was originally started as VisionLink in 1994, then it was rebranded to Vision DSL in March of 2001, Vision Broadband in 2004 and finally Vision Fiber in 2009. The ISP provides plans starting from 15Mbps up to 5GBps at a reasonable price.

Vision Mobile
Vision Mobile is a mobile telecommunications subsidiary of Vision Communications that was launched in 1995 as a digital cellular service. It currently offers pay-as-you-go and postpaid based mobile services. Much of the telco's infrastructure are capable of 4G+ connectivity, with 5G connectivity already being deployed in some cities of Saleria since 2019.

Vision TV Now
Vision TV Now is an over-the-top contract-free television service that's owned by Vision Communications. Its origins can be traced back in 1995 with the launch of Cinestream, which it was acquired by Vision Communications in 2010. It was later rebranded to Vision On Demand in late 2010 and as an over-the-top streaming television service under the name Vision TV Now in 2020 (due to the company's acquisition of the TeleHorizon OTT television service).