Numericable, France´s Largest Cable Operator, Launches New Customer Portal Powered by Netvibes
Numericable, France´s leading cable television, Internet and phone provider, and Netvibes, the pioneer of the personalized homepage, today announce the launch of MyNumericable, a completely customizable web portal for Numericable customers. MyNumericable lets users access personalized TV schedules, email, billing services, local news, weather, games, blogs, widgets and other popular services like Facebook, MySpace, YouTube- all from a single, convenient startpage, powered by Netvibes.
"We are willing to provide all our customers with an enhanced web experience allowing them to personalize the portal with a simple and user friendly device. It´s a matter of choice for our users and we chose Netvibes to power our new customer portal because they offer the widest variety of quality content and cross–platform widgets. With MyNumericable, users can check their email, personalize their TV guide, and get easy and quick access to all kinds of information, local news and weather reports, and all of their favorite social networks and web services from their homepage," said Olivier Gerolami, COO Numericable.
Numericable is France´s leading cable television, Internet and phone provider, with more than 9.5M households connected in France and 99.6% of the French cable market. MyNumericable gives each of their customers a unique, personalized homepage that delivers all of their favorite blogs, news, photos, videos, music, games, instant messengers, search engines and social networks in one place. MyNumericable will also offer users direct access to customer account services and a variety of exclusive promotions and game contests.
In partnership with Netvibes, MyNumericable has also developed two convenient widgets just for Numericable customers: Numericable Email and Numericable 1–Click. Numericable Email conveniently displays unread email and provides instant access to Numericable webmail. Numericable 1–Click provides personalized TV listings, location–based news, local service and coverage maps, and their Video–on–Demand (VOD) catalog on one, multi–tabbed widget.
In the coming months, MyNumericable will also offer integrated cable television services, such as the ability to schedule DVR recordings remotely on a customer´s home cable box from the website.
MyNumericable is now available at: http://my.numericable.fr
"Traditional portals force users to go out and search the web from a centralized starting point. But what if everything you like about the web"”from your favorite blogs to photos, videos and social networks"”could be delivered, completely personalized, directly to you on one customizable startpage?" said Stefan Lechere, Netvibes VP European Business Development. "MyNumericable leverages the power of the Netvibes platform to deliver content that´s infinitely personalized for each of their many customers."
MyNumericable also offers Numericable users access to the Netvibes Ecosystem, the world´s largest collection of universal widgets and premium personalized content, with more than 120,000 widgets and feeds. Netvibes Ecosystem also offers free, full–length TV episodes from CBS and official content from leading media outlets, including New York Times, Financial Times, Les Echos, Le Figaro, International Herald Tribune, TIME and Die Welt.
Netvibes currently powers branded personalized homepages through for today´s leading media companies and social networks through its Premium Universe product. Global customers include: Le Figaro, Les Echos, and Ilsole24ore, leading European newspapers; TV4, Sweden´s largest private television network; MIVA (Alot.com), a global media and marketing company; EMI Artists such as Captain and Air Traffic; and Tagged, the web´s fastest growing social network.
About Numericable (http://www.numericable.ft/corporate)
Numericable is the leading cable operator in France. Its network covers more than 9.5 millions homes representing 40% of all French households.
Since 2005, Numericable has been actively renovating its network with a massive deployment of optic fiber. Numericable is now a leading player in optic fiber broadband, currently serving more than 2.3 million homes. Numericable´s fiber broadband network is forecasted to reach over 4 million by the end of 2008.
Numericable offers the best performing Triple Play offers available on the market, with a 100 Mbps rate for Internet, unlimited telephone connections, HD TV, mobile phone, VOD and HD VOD, and much more.
About Netvibes (http://www.netvibes.com)
Founded in 2005, Netvibes pioneered the personalized homepage as alternative to traditional web portals. Today, Netvibes is a global community of users who are taking control of their digital lives by personalizing their web experience. Netvibes lets individuals assemble all in one place their favorite widgets, websites, blogs, email accounts, social networks, search engines, instant messengers, photos, videos, podcasts, and everything else they enjoy on the Web.
Netvibes has established the leading universal widget platform that is used by thousands of publishers around the world. Netvibes has offices in Paris, London and San Francisco.