Baltics Digital TV News

TeliaSonera January-June 2008
Jul 24, 2008 – The total number of TeliaSonera (Stockholm: TLSN) TV subscriptions rose to 816,000, of which nearly 430,000 were IPTV subscriptions. In Sweden alone, the push for IPTV resulted in a year-on-year rise of 162,000 new subscriptions to 320,000.
News categories: TeliaSonera, Cable TV, Denmark, Digital TV, Estonia, Finland, IPTV, Lithuania, Norway, Results, Subscribers, Sweden

Heavy investment in Europe's cable industry begins to pay off
Jul 22, 2008 – Europe's cable industry is now in a position to compete in the increasingly competitive pay TV market place according to the latest report from media analyst Screen Digest.
News categories: Screen Digest, Austria, Belgium, Cable TV, Czech Republic, Denmark, Digital TV, Estonia, Europe, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Luxembourg, Market Research, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Private Equity, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Subscribers, Sweden, Switzerland, UK

Eesti Telekom Reports 2nd Quarter and First Half 2008
Jul 18, 2008 – The number of Elion triple-package users increased by 4,200 in the quarter, reaching 62.8 thousand as of 30 June. By the end of the second quarter, Elion had 67.7 thousand IP and cable television clients (30 June 2007: 39.5 thousand).
News categories: Elion, Eesti Telekom, Broadband, Cable TV, Digital TV, Estonia, IPTV, Results, Subscribers

Widevine® Secures Viginta's One Way DTT Video Service
Jun 30, 2008 – Widevine has announced that leading Lithuanian multichannel television, telephone and internet service provider Viginta has selected Widevine Cypher to secure content delivered over DTT, hybrid QAM (cable) and IPTV deployments.
News categories: Widevine, Viginta, Cable TV, Conditional Access, Content Protection, Digital TV, IPTV, Lithuania, Terrestrial

More EU households are receiving digital terrestrial television
Jun 27, 2008 – An EU-wide survey has revealed the emergence of new consumption patterns in telecoms services in Europe. More households are receiving digital terrestrial television: an increase of 5 percentage points since winter 2007 to now 12% of EU27 households.
News categories: European Commission, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cable TV, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Digital TV, Estonia, Europe, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Market Research, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Satellite, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Terrestrial, UK

Eastern Europe Delivers on its Promise
Jun 26, 2008 – New research from Informa Telecoms & Media has found that the long-held potential of central and eastern European TV markets is now being realized. The region's pay TV sector is expected to more than double to $12 billion by 2013.
News categories: Informa Telecoms & Media, Bulgaria, Cable TV, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Digital TV, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, IPTV, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania, Market Research, Poland, Romania, Russia, Satellite, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Terrestrial, Turkey, Ukraine

Verimatrix Secures TeliaSonera's Leading IPTV Service
Jun 24, 2008 – Verimatrix has announced that TeliaSonera has deployed the Verimatrix Video Content Authority System (VCAS™) for IPTV for the tier one telecommunications operator's successful IPTV services in the Nordic region, Estonia and Lithuania.
News categories: Verimatrix, TeliaSonera, Content Protection, Denmark, Digital TV, Estonia, Finland, IPTV, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden

Price squeeze looms as telcos compete for pay-TV customers
Jun 9, 2008 – According to the latest research from media analysts Screen Digest, IPTV is rapidly becoming a commodity - bundled for no extra cost with a broadband and/or telephony package.
News categories: Screen Digest, Broadband, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Digital TV, Estonia, France, Germany, Iceland, IPTV, Italy, Market Research, Norway, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, UK

Russia will drive growth in the Eastern European pay TV market over the next five years
May 8, 2008 – The latest report from media analyst Screen Digest examines the market for pay TV in 12 Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries, and Russia. A total of 63m homes are forecasted to be subscribing to pay TV services by 2012.
News categories: Screen Digest, Bulgaria, Cable TV, Croatia, Czech Republic, Digital TV, Estonia, Hungary, IPTV, Latvia, Lithuania, Market Research, Poland, Romania, Russia, Satellite, Slovakia, Slovenia, Subscribers, Terrestrial, Ukraine