Follwowing a court decsion, cloud PVR service Bhaalu may continue to offer its nPVR service in Belgium.
Dutch police act against card-sharing ring
Dutch police have undertaken a major action against a card-sharing ring in the Netherlands arresting four men and three women.
T-Mobile sells broadband business to CDS
T-Mobile Netherlands is selling its broadband business Euronet/Online to the Canal Digital Satelliet Group.
Skylink faces Sky trademark action
BSkyB has launched legal proceedings against the Luxembourg-based M7 Group over the use of the Skylink name in Slovakia and the Czech Republic, Broadband TV News has learnt.
Czech DTH operators fined
The Czech Telecom Office (CTU) has imposed fines of CZK20 million (€772,000) each on the M7 Group and UPC DTH, operators of the DTH platforms Skylink/CS Link and freeSAT respectively.
Belgian pay-TV pirate forfeits PayPal loot
A joint operation between content security companies Irdeto and Nagra and the pay-TV company M7 has resulted in the conviction of a Belgian TV pirate.
HD Austria adds Super RTL HD
HD Austria, part of the M7 Group, is adding Super RTL HD to it’s line up of channels. The DTH platform is also adding the Austrian versions of the other three RTL channels.
AustriaSat licences new HD Austria receivers
The Austrian DTH platform AustriaSat has started to license the first satellite receivers for the new HD Austria bouquet that will launch later this year. Products from Loewe, Wisi and Hirschmann are part of the first slate of certified receivers.
M7 agrees to Rovi EPG patent scheme
M7 Group, the operators of DTH platforms including the Dutch CanalDigitaal and Czech CS Link, has signed up to a multi-year agreement with Rovi on a series of EPG patents.