Liberty Global has agreed to sell its Slovenian operation UPC Telemach to Mid Europa Partners for an undisclosed fee.
Virgin launches 200 Mbps pilot
Virgin Media has launched what it believes to be the first real-world deployment of a 200 Mbps broadband service.
More channels startover on YouSee
Danish cablenet YouSee has added its startover TV facility to another six channels.
Bluewin stays on track
Bluewin has continued its slow but steady progress adding another 21,000 subscribers in the first quarter of 2009.
Fastweb stays in the black
Significant subscriber increases gave Italian telecommunications provider Fastweb a first quarter net profit of €2.3 million from a net loss of €11m for the equivalent period in 2008.
Liberty posts mixed results
Q1 was a bittersweet quarter for Liberty Global, its worsening financial position offset by record growth in digital cable additions.
German satellite ASO postponed
Analogue switch-off of German public channels on the Astra satellite will not take place until 2012, according to Nawid Goudarzi, production and operation director at RBB.
UPC to move ESPN America
UPC Nederland is to move the US sports channel ESPN America to a premium tier, making the channel only available to subscribers of Chellomedia’s Sport1.
Autumn launch for RTL in Leipzig, Halle
The German RTL Group will launch DTT services in the cities of Leipzig and Halle using MPEG-4 and Conax encryption this autumn.
Czech Prima trials HD
The Czech national commercial station Prima TV has begun trial HD transmissions in Prague.