Sometime next year the Austrian public broadcaster ORF plans to switch off the Betacrypt encoding of its domestic DTH bouquet. About 60,000 homes that rely solely on DTH reception with […]
Digitürk secures Euro 2008
Digitürk has been chosen as the official pay-TV broadcast partner in Turkey for the UEFA Euro 2008 championships in Austria and Switzerland. It will have exclusive pay-TV rights to all […]
Flat panel TVs beat towards $100bn barrier
Consumer spending on flat panel TVs is likely to pass $100 billion (€70.69bn) worldwide during 2007, according to the latest report from the Strategy Analytics Connected Home Devices service. The […]
East Europe fuels Ofcom licences
With new entries to the Sky EPG effectively on hold, over half of the new television service licence awards granted by Ofcom in September were for channels targeting countries outside […]
Kirch is back in business; Premiere not pleased
German media mogul Leo Kirch is back in business with his new deal to market the games of the Deutsche Fußball Liga (DFL). Starting in 2009, Kirch’s Sirius subsidiary has […]
SES creates new engineering division
SES has brought together all of its engineering activities into a single entity covering satellite, ground, procurement, engineering and operational services. Martin Halliwell, SES Astra’s long serving chief technology officer, […]
Redback fibre route for Neuf Cegetel
The French alternative telco Neuf Cegetel has selected Ericsson and its Redback subsidiary for its next generation fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) aggregation network for both residential and business services. The vendors will […]
Belgacom upgrades IPTV net for HD
The Belgian incumbent telco Belgacom has selected Alcatel-Lucent to supply it with its fibre-to-the-node VDSL2-network. The network upgrade is scheduled to be completed in spring 2008. Belgacom’s Broadway infrastructure programme […]
UPC Poland sets digital launch date
UPC will launch a digital cable TV service in Poland in Q2 2008. Speaking to the local press, UPC Polska president Simon Boyd said it will be rolled out on […]
Dolce reaches 300,000-subscriber mark
The Romanian DTH platform Dolce, which is operated by the OTE-backed incumbent telco Romtelecom, now has 300,000 subscribers. Launched 10 months ago, it competes in a market also served by […]