Iliad SA, the owner of France’s largest alternative broadband provider Free, says it has made an offer for Deutsche Telekom’s French internet business Club Internet. Serving 600,000 ADSL and 400,000 […]
Spanish ONO goes into profit
Spanish cable operator ONO ended 2006 with over one million residential broadband subscribers. The cablenet, which also added 140,000 net new cable subscribers, increased the number of revenue generating units […]
Turner in KabelKiosk
Turner Broadcasting System’s Boomerang, Cartoon Network and Turner Classic Movies (TCM), channels will be distributed to cable networks in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Luxembourg through Eutelsat’s KabelKiosk platform. Signals are […]
Get announces cable poll results
The Norwegian cablenet Get has announced the results of its recent viewer survey that determines the composition of the operator’s basic packages. The result is that Eurosport, TV2 Zebra and […]
More HD for platform n
The Polish DTH platform n is to make movies and popular local series available on a VOD basis in HD and Dolby Digital 5.1 from later this month. It will […]
UPC to offer HD before the summer
UPC Netherlands will start to offer an HD bouquet to its Dutch digital subscribers before the summer, a company spokesperson said. Last year the operator ‘soft launched’ a service just […]
UPC Ireland plans digital upgrade
UPC is planning a €300 million upgrade of its network in the Irish Republic. UPC Ireland, which comprises the former networks of NTL and Chorus is planning to expand its […]
Sci-Fi awarded Benelux licences
Versions of Sci-Fi Channel and 13th Street have been licensed by Ofcom for carriage in the Benelux. The two stations have been issued with television broadcast licences. Another broadcaster using […]
Hot opts for VideoGuard
The Israeli cable operator Hot Telecom has decided to use NDS’s VideoGuard conditional access for its pay-TV subscription-based service. HOT Telecom is owned by the three former MSOs Arutzei Zahav […]
Ideal Shopping extends cable reach
Homeshopping channel Ideal Shopping Direct has renewed its Freeview DTT contract and extended its cable distribution across the Virgin Media network. Carriage on the DTT network has been extended through […]