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France - Baromètre Télévision Numérique N°4 published
Jul 24, 2007 – The 4th edition of the Digital TV Barometer from TDF shows that more than 5 million households (19,5%) in France are equipped for DTT - twice as many as nine months ago.
News categories: France, Market Research, Mobile, Set Top Box, Terrestrial

MTG Financial Results for the Second Quarter And Six Months ended 30 June 2007
Jul 24, 2007 – MTG has reported its financial results for the second quarter and six months ended 30 June 2007. In Q2 Viasat Broadcasting net sales were up 9% to SEK 2,246 mn and operating profit was up 1% to SEK 535 mn.
News categories: Modern Times Group, Denmark, Digital TV, Finland, Norway, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, Sweden

Telenor Second Quarter 2007: Continued good performance
Jul 24, 2007 – Revenues in the Canal Digital Group increased primarily due to higher number of subscribers and higher number of additional services. Revenues and EBITDA in Transmission & Encryption increased due to higher sales of pay TV conditional access cards.
News categories: Telenor, 2Q07 Report, Cable TV, Conditional Access, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, Sweden, Terrestrial

MoCoBe Study of One-Seg Usage in Japan Shows Opportunities and Risks of Mobile TV
Jul 23, 2007 – Mobile TV services run the significant risk of achieving unprofitable financial returns. In fact, Mobile TV users surveyed appear to be lowering their usage of the most profitable mobile phone services.
News categories: MoCoBe, Digital TV, Japan, Market Research, Mobile

Com Hem obtained 50,000 new customers and raised net sales by 14 per cent to SEK 869 million in Q2 2007
Jul 23, 2007 – The number of broadband customers rose in Q2 2007 by 16,000 to 447,000, the number of digital TV customers by 13,000 to 356,000 and the number of telephony customers by 21,000 to 223,000.
News categories: Com Hem, Earnings Release, Digital TV, IPTV, Results, Subscribers, Sweden

North American Free-To-Air Set-Top Boxes: It's A Big Biz
Jul 22, 2007 – FTA pirates tapping into Echostar's DISH Network service and Canada's Bell ExpressVU system, have now distributed their illegal services and products to an estimated two million illegal TV Households, according to the Carmel Group.
News categories: Carmel Group, Canada, Conditional Access, Content Protection, Digital TV, Market Research, North America, Satellite, Set Top Box, USA

TEO revenues grew by 4.6 per cent in first half 2007
Jul 19, 2007 – January-June 2007 the total number of main telephone lines in service increased by 2.8 thousand to 788 thousand, broadband Internet access users increased by almost 32 thousand to 212.6 thousand, while the number of IPTV users exceeded 11 thousand.
News categories: TEO LT, Digital TV, IPTV, Lithuania, Results, Subscribers

DEG: 52 million HDTV homes in US by 2008
Jul 18, 2007 – More than 30 million U.S. households have at least one HDTV, according to figures compiled by DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group based on data from the Consumer Electronics Assn., retailers and manufacturers.
News categories: Digital TV, DVD, Market Research, USA

Sogecable Consolidated Results as of June 30th 2007
Jul 17, 2007 – As of June 30th 2007, DIGITAL+'s customer base reached 2,056,000 clients, representing a net growth of 66,000 subscribers in a year.
News categories: Sogecable, Full Release, Digital TV, Results, Satellite, Spain, Subscribers