Dutch cablenets Casema, Essent, Multikabel, UPC, and Delta Kabel have won their appeal against OPTA’s March 17, 2006 ruling on broadcast distribution services. The business tribunal (College van Beroep voor […]
TV Cabo detects illegal connections
Since the start of the year, the Portuguese cable operator TV Cabo has detected 7,000 illegal connections to its cable TV network. It succeeded in signing up 1,000, and informed […]
Norway boost for Canal Digital
Strong subscriber growth from Canal Digital in the Norwegian market have helped Telenor Broadcast increase its revenues by 14% in the financial quarter ending June 30, 2007 compared to the […]
Triple play performs for Com Hem
Sweden’s dominant cable operator Com Hem took advantage of demand across digital TV telephony and broadband services as it improved its net sales by 13.9% in the second half of […]
POT steps up DTT efforts
The Polski Operator Telewizyjny (POT) consortium has begun joint MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 DTT trials in Warsaw. Backed by the national commercial broadcasters Polsat and TVN, POT initially had a one-month […]
Medical appointment service goes live
The UK’s digital booking service for doctor’s appointments has gone live on Sky Digital, Virgin Media and mobile phones. The national service covers over 1,100 surgeries across the country and […]
Multikabel M-CMTS rollout reaches 50,000 subs
The rollout of BigBand Networks modular cable termination system (M-CMTS) with Multikabel in the Netherlands has passed more than 50,000 subscribers. The deployment is believed to be the first commercial […]
Completing IPTV
Complete TV is supplying Simply Global TV with a DTT-IPTV set-top that will be used for the distribution of international channels to a UK audience. Julian Clover reports. IPTV seems […]
Setanta free for Virgin big basic customers
Virgin Media and Setanta Sports have agreed a significant distribution deal that will place six Setanta channels in Virgin Media’s big basic XL TV package. The cablenet has stressed that […]
New dawn for Hungarian cable
Hungary’s cable industry is bracing itself for huge change following the scrapping of a rule that prevented operators from providing services to more than one-third of the population. The move […]