3GSM WORLD CONGRESS – BARCELONA. The congress in Barcelona is live on the air through mobile TV. A DVB-H mobile TV network, operated by Abertis Telecom and provided by technology […]
Nokia predicts 20 million mobile TV units in 2009
3GSM WORLD CONGRESS – BARCELONA. Nokia President and CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo unveiled a number of new handsets including the Nokia N77 multimedia computer designed to accelerate the take up of […]
Research: Modest interest in mobile TV
3GSM WORLD CONGRESS – BARCELONA. There is only a modest interest in mobile TV, according to research by Circle Research, which was carried out on behalf of the GSM Association. […]
TiVo brings Amazon to the box
A new agreement will soon enable TiVo subscribers to watch downloads from Amazon.com’s sercvice on their televisions. The companies announced “Amazon Unbox on TiVo”, a service that will provide TiVo […]
Cabovisão and OpVista Join EuroCableLabs
CABLE CONGRESS – AMSTERDAM. Today EuroCableLabs announced that Cabovisão Televisao por Cabo, S.A. of Portugal, an affiliate of Cogeco Cable Inc. of Canada, and OpVista joined EuroCableLabs. Cabovisão is becoming […]
Cable can learn from Google
CABLE CONGRESS – AMSTERDAM. Should traditional parties such as cable companies and commercial broadcasters are afraid of newcomers such as Google? On the contrary was the message of Vincent Dureau, […]
Dutch DTT reaches 265,000
In the fourth quarter, the number of ‘Digitenne’ DTT customers surpassed the 250k mark, with 265,000 customers subscribing to the service at the end of 2006, up 44% year-on-year. KPN’s […]
Mobilkom Austria trials DVB-H
Mobile operator Mobilkom Austria A1 has launched a trial DVB-H mobile TV service in Kitzbühel, a small city in the Tyrol region of Austria, an area known for its winter […]
265,000 subscribers for Dutch Film1/Sport1
The Subscriber base of Dutch pay-TV channels Film1 and Sport1 has grown by 50%, to a total of 265,000 since their launch a year ago. “Together with our distributors we […]
Total loss of NSS-8 satellite
SES New Skies announced the failure of the launch of NSS-8, the sixth satellite in the fleet, onboard a Zenith-3SL launch vehicle, and the resulting total loss of the satellite. […]