Viasat estimates that more than one million satellite TV viewers in Ukraine continue to use pirated services to gain access to domestic TV channels.
It adds that following the encryption of satellite signals by the country’s leading media groups on January 29, the state, together with the media groups and satellite operators, has started a new stage of the active fight against card sharing and other illegal activities.
In the coming weeks, Viasat will shut down the NDS encoding system, which does not meet the latest satellite broadcast security standards, and replace it with the Verimatrix system.
Commenting on this development, Viasat Ukraine’s sales director Anton Yuriev said: “In order to provide tuners with the necessary tuners on time, Viasat has replaced the old tuners with new tuners that support Verimatrix encoding system, so they can fully enjoy watching their favourite TV products without having to worry about a sudden shutdown. We hope that thanks to the joint efforts of all participants in the television market, and first of all – subscribers who deliberately choose the legal route – pirated television will disappear as a phenomenon, and it will happen in the near future”.
