Sogecable has declined to comment on Spanish press reports suggesting the pay-TV operator has reinitiated talks with France Telecom’s Orange over the launch of a triple play service. Sogecable already […]
Delay for Orange IPTV
Orange has delayed the launch of its IPTV service in the UK until next year. The France Telecom-owned operator, which already runs a successful service in France, has been running […]
Sky waits for Competition call
BSkyB is preparing to reduce its controversial stake in commercial broadcaster ITV to around 10%. On Friday the Competition Commission sent its report to business secretary John Hutton with a […]
Canal Digital Sweden doubles IPTV base
Canal Digital has increased the number of Swedish households that can receive its packages by 150% following a new distribution agreement with Svenska Fibernät. The deal with the communications provider […]
Finnish explore YLE smart card
Finland’s ministry of justice is to examine the possibility of encrypting DTT transmissions from the public broadcaster YLE and issuing smart cards only to those that have paid the television […]
Further expansion of Numericable fibre-optic net
Numericable has announced it has further extended its fibre-optic network to the regions of Grenoble, Nimes and Perpignan. The French cablenet began the deployment of the technology in 2005 and […]
Sky Italia extends OpenTV agreement
OpenTV has confirmed that Sky Italia has extended its middleware licence agreement with a multi-year renewal. The agreement squashes any thoughts that the News Corp-owned DTH operation might instead look […]
Discovery Channel plans IPO
Discovery Channel will have more than the sharks of its famous programming block to watch out for as the network’s parent company announced plans to take the company public. It […]
Italy begins first DVB-SH mobile TV trial
The first trial of the satellite-delivered DVB-SH mobile TV technology is getting underway in Torino, Italy. It is being overseen by RAI Technological Strategies Dept, Raiway SpA and RAI Research […]
Algeria joins digital family
Mohamed Benfodil, president of the Algerian Independent ICT Authority (ARPT), has given details of the country’s move to digital terrestrial broadcasting. Benfodil told a two-day ITU seminar in Algiers that […]