
Croatia’s Vipnet has acquired a 100% stake in the cable operator OKI and at the same time signed contracts to buy the business interests in Metronet’s residential infrastructure and the cable operator KTS.
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Croatia’s Vipnet has acquired a 100% stake in the cable operator OKI and at the same time signed contracts to buy the business interests in Metronet’s residential infrastructure and the cable operator KTS.

Croatia ended the first quarter with 371,459 subscribers to IPTV services, or 7.35% more than a year earlier, according to data published by the regulator HAKOM.

CME is planning its own proprietary OTT box in the Czech Republic to consider the viability of offering its on demand service Voyo via an internet set top box or proprietary OTT box over the internet.

Hrvatski Telekom’s OTT service MAXtv to Go now has 40,000 customers, according to Nikola Francetic, the company’s director of content development.
The Croatian incumbent telco Hrvatski Telekom (T-HT) has appointed Jens Hartmann as a member of its management board and COO Business, for a period of three years effective June 17.

Final preparations are now under way for what will be one of the most interesting TV industry events in Croatia this year.
The number of homes using the Croatian company Vipnet’s fixed communication and TV services increased to 172,100 in Q1, with the total being 15.7% more than in the same period in 2012.

Hrvatski Telekom (T-HT) and its sister company Iskon will be required to raise the prices of their internet and IPTV offers from June 1.

The Croatian incumbent Hrvatski Telekom (T-HT) ended Q1 with 347,908 residential customers to its TV services.
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