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COMPANY REPORT Receiver Manufacturer AB-COM, Slovakia
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■ Company premises of receiver manufacturer
AB-COM in Topolcany, Slovakia. The company has
cooperation agreements with TV manufacturer LG
and pay TV provider Skylink, which is why their
logos also appear prominently on the roof of the
building. AB-COM generates 30% of its turnover
in the local markets of Slovakia and the Czech
Republic, with the remaining 70% share coming
from other European markets.

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COMPANY REPORT Receiver Manufacturer AB-COM, Slovakia

Conquering ë Topolcany

the market
with new
receivers
Slovakian receiver manufacturer AB- by Juraj Masaryk in the year 2002. In alongside and is the official distributor of
COM has found its firm place in the the beginning the business acted as a all AB-COM Europe products in the com-
Central European market within an wholesaler for satellite components and pany’s home markets of Slovakia and
impressively short time. Based in the it was only in the year 2010 that AB- the Czech Republic.
little-known town of Topolcany, some COM Europe was established as an inde-
100 km east of the Slovakian capital pendent receiver manufacturer. AB-COM Company founder Juraj Masaryk tells
Bratislava, the company was founded as a wholesaler continues to prosper us how AB-COM products are supplied to

■ Juraj Masaryk is founder and
Managing Director of AB-COM.
Here he is seen explaining all the
features of the 3D converter that
is built into the AB 3D boxes.

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other markets in Europe: “In the Ukraine regional wholesale channels.” Only few the AB IPBox brand are already widely
we have our own affiliate by the name of dark spots are left on the European map, known,” Juraj explains. “These are HD
AB-COM Ukraine and in many European and Juraj Masaryk emphasises that “we receivers based on Linux.” For terres-
countries local wholesalers have taken are very open for wholesalers in coun- trial reception AB-COM offers the AB
over distribution of AB-COM products.” tries where AB-COM is not yet present.” TereBox series with DVB-T receivers for
He continues by letting us know that Interested parties are more than wel- both MPEG-2 and MPEG-4. “In the first
“our products are directly available in come to get in touch with him. quarter of 2012 we will also launch our
neighbouring countries Poland, Hungary
■ The 600 sqm warehouse is filled to
and Austria. In addition there is indirect The effort could well be worth one’s the brim with components and finished
distribution in Hungary, Romania and while since AB-COM has an attrac- products. Two warehouse staff members
are kept busy shelving newly delivered
Bulgaria, where we have a dedicated tive product portfolio in store. For each items and preparing finished products
wholesale partner. In the Baltic states, product range or product segment AB- for dispatch to wholesale customers.
“The warehouse is filled with items worth
Finland, Sweden, the Netherlands, COM has launched dedicated brands, almost one million euro,” Juraj Masaryk
Spain, Italy and Greece local distribution the names of which already imply what explains and draws our attention to the
huge amount of cardboard boxes. This way
of AB-COM products takes place through the products are about. “Receivers with AB-COM can make sure each customer
order is fulfilled in the best possible way.

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■ View to the
Assembly line: an
employee puts the
recently assemblied
receivers in their gift
boxes.

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first DVB-T2 receiver,” he hints at some consumer applications you need not look net networks are gradually disappearing
interesting plans for the future. The only further than to the brand new AB 3DBox and that almost every household these
question that still begs an answer is in receiver line which features HD receiv- days has set up a WiFi network. So why
which countries DVB-T2 will actually be ers with integrated 3D TV converter. The not add WiFi capability to satellite re-
launched. As a matter of fact, nobody newly developed 3D boxes are sched- ceivers? “These boxes are based on the
knows at this stage because every coun- uled to hit the market in the first quarter Ali 3606 chipset which is particularly
try will decide independently whether of 2012. In the previous issue of TELE- fast,” Juraj adds.
and how to introduce DVB-T2, and these satellite we presented the stand-alone
decisions are not always easy to under- 3D converter, whose software will also Thanks to all these achievements AB-
stand. be used in the AB 3DBox receivers. COM Europe has taken only two years to
become a significant player that is ac-
The LinkBox series features another The recently introduced AB-COM tively tapping into various product seg-
range of receivers: “Here we are talk- CryptoBox receiver line from AB-COM ments. For Juraj Masaryk, innovation is
ing about boxes we produce for Czech has a very special treat in store: As ex- the key to success and a cornerstone
pay TV provider Skylink, which uses the tremely good-value receivers targeted for a successful expansion path. Even
Irdeto encryption system.” These receiv- towards the pay TV market, all receivers the company name has turned out to be
ers are particularly inexpensive, Juraj from this line include CA and a CI mod- wisely chosen: The acronym AB appears
says and adds “we’d be ready to offer ule. The truly special feature, however, on all new brand names whenever a new
this box to other content providers using is a USB interface which can be used to products series is launched. This way
Irdeto as well.” If you need further proof connect a WiFi dongle, Juraj Masaryk ex- AB-COM is able to grow and prosper for
for AB-COM’s orientation towards future plains. He knows that fully cabled Ether- a long time to come!

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1. Meet Marketing Manager Michal Grezo. What’s that on his
screen? It’s the advertisement of the AB 3DBox as it appeared in 2
TELE-satellite.
2. Pavol Blaho is Sales Manager

■ Michal Krajcik’s passion
is all about photography. It
should be, as he is the head
of design and looks after the
website of AB-COM.

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Sales Managers Slovakia
1. Daniel Lukacovic and...
2. ... Pavol Grznar and ...
3. ... Juraj Babula take care of customers
in Slovakia.

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Technical Service
1. Customers requiring technical
assistance turn to Peter Valo.
2. In case of problems Service
Manager Martin Durinsky handles
all requests and coordinates the
repair process.
3. Hardware problems? No problem
for Hardware Engineer Daniel
Herda who will open the box,
address any malfunction and put
everything together again.

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