The Czech cable operators Elsat, BKS Capital Partners, Self Servis and Kabelova Televize Koprivnice have deployed Arris’s DOCSIS 3.0 CMTS solution.
Slovak T-Com widens FTTx reach
Slovakia’s incumbent telco T-Com has extended its FTTx network, offering digital TV and internet access of up to 80 Mbps, to the towns of Martine and Ziari nad Hrinom.
UPC extends Polish digital reach
UPC Poland has made its digital cable service available in the towns of Gniezno and Wrzesnia.
New MTV service set for launch
Networks International (MTVNI) has announced the programming line-up for the launch of its new service targeting the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
NDS technology to support MYtv
MYtv, the Israeli-backed DTH platform serving Ukraine, is to launch the region’s first personal video recorder service when it enters full programme service before the end of the year.
End for MTV Baltics
MTV Baltics has been suspended indefinitely and replaced with MTV Europe.
UPC escapes Romanian fines
The Bucharest Court of Appeal has set aside fines on UPC Romania totaling €7.1 million.
VGTRK rings in the changes
The Russian state broadcaster VGTRK is to restructure its thematic channel Kultura, having already decided to close its channel Sport in January 2010.
Lattelecom grows broadband base
The Latvian incumbent telco Lattelecom ended October with 192,000 broadband internet subscribers, or 6% more than at the beginning of the year.
Turner expands Polish offer
Cartoon Network and TCM are now being offered as separate 24-hour services on the Polish DTH platform Cyfrowy Polsat rather than sharing a single channel.