Liberty Global provides video, voice, and broadband Internet services primarily in Europe, Japan, and Chile. The company offers various broadband distribution services over its cable television systems, including video, broadband Internet access, and telephony. It also provides video services through direct-to-home satellite or multi-channel multipoint distribution systems; analog video services consisting of basic programming and expanded basic programming; digital cable services comprising basic programming and premium services, as well as pay-per-view programming, including video-on-demand and near-video-on-demand, digital video recorders, and high definition television services; and broadband Internet access services. In addition, Liberty Global provides telephony services that include circuit-switched telephony services and voice-over-Internet-protocol (VoIP) telephony services, as well as offers mobile telephony services using third party networks. Further, it owns programming networks that provide video programming channels to multi-channel distribution systems owned by it and by third parties. As of December 31, 2008, Liberty Global owned and operated networks that passed approximately 34,275,100 homes, as well as served approximately 15,608,200 video subscribers, 6,201,300 broadband Internet subscribers, and 4,644,300 telephony subscribers. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in London, United Kingdom.