The parliamentary communications policy committee in Bulgaria has announced that analogue TV licences will continue to be awarded until the end of 2008, or 12 months longer than had previously […]

Croatia’s government has unveiled a strategy that should see the broadband penetration rise from a current 4% to 12%, equivalent to 500,000 people, by the end of 2008. Its main […]

A contest to select the president of Teleradio-Moldova and heads of both its national TV and radio stations has got under way. According to the Observers Council of Teleradio Moldova, […]

Gary Lewis has been appointed the new Miranda Technologies sales manager for Central and Eastern Europe. Montreal-based Miranda Technologies develops, manufactures and markets high performance hardware for the TV broadcast […]

The Telekom Slovenije subsidiary Ipko Net has secured a wireless operator licence in Kosovo. Although recently awarded to the highest bidder Kosmocell, a company backed by the US’s Computer Science […]

An extraordinary dispute between Poland’s Office of Electronic Communications (UKE) and France Telecom-backed TPSA over its Internet access charges has escalated. The regulator believes the latter to be excessive and […]

Moscow CableCom Corp (MCC) is to be taken over by the Russian private equity group Renova in a deal worth around $152 million (€115.7 million). Renova currently holds a 40.5% […]

Poland’s third leading MSO Multimedia Polska has acquired a smaller operator named Automatic Service for PLN56.5 million (€14.5 million). The deal will allow Multimedia Polska to enter several markets in […]

The Czech public broadcaster CT has filed lawsuits totalling CZK35 million (€1.24 million) against almost 28,500 viewers defaulting on receiver licence fee payments. CT is gradually withdrawing advertising and will […]