Baltics Digital TV News

Are National Regulation Frameworks for Mobile TV ready?
May 7, 2008 – A study on terrestrial mobile broadcast TV by the bmcoforum has concluded that a significant number of countries are still lagging behind most advanced countries in defining the regulatory framework including the licensing conditions and processes.
News categories: bmcoforum, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Digital TV, Estonia, Europe, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, Market Research, Mobile, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Regulation, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, USA

Estonia - Levira starts DVB-H trial
May 7, 2008 – The Estonian national transmission company Levira has begun a DVB-H pilot in the capital, Tallinn.
News categories: Levira, Digital TV, Estonia, Mobile

TeliaSonera January-March 2008
Apr 25, 2008 – TeliaSonera's total number of TV subscriptions rose to 797,000, of which more than 400,000 were IPTV subscriptions.
News categories: TeliaSonera, Broadband, Denmark, Digital TV, Estonia, Finland, IPTV, Lithuania, Mobile, Norway, Results, Subscribers, Sweden

Consolidated Interim Report of AS Eesti Telekom Quarter I 2008
Apr 23, 2008 – The number of Elion triple package users increased by 5,100, reaching 58.6 thousand as of 31 March (31 March 2007: 29.8 thousand). At the end of the first quarter, Elion had 63.2 thousand IP and cable TV clients (31 March 2007: 32.4 thousand).
News categories: Elion, Eesti Telekom, Broadband, Cable TV, Digital TV, Estonia, IPTV, Results, Subscribers

European cable industry sees rapid growth in digital TV, telephony and broadband internet
Apr 23, 2008 – Details of 2007 industry revenues and customer volumes were announced at the annual Cable Congress. The number of Digital cable TV customers has more than doubled in the past two years to 13.9m (+40% in 2007 compared to 9.9m in 2006).
News categories: Cable Europe, Austria, Belgium, Broadband, Bulgaria, Cable TV, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Digital TV, DOCSIS, Estonia, Europe, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Market Research, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Subscribers, Sweden, UK

TEO revenues grew by 11.3 per cent in the first quarter of 2008
Apr 17, 2008 – During January-March 2008 TEO's total number of broadband Internet access users increased by 11 thousand and at the end of March was 270.1 thousand, while the number of TV users reached almost 25 thousand.
News categories: TEO LT, Broadband, Digital TV, IPTV, Lithuania, Results, Subscribers

Launch of MAVISE - a new database on television channels and television companies in the European Union
Apr 1, 2008 – On 9 April 2008, the European Commission and the European Audiovisual Observatory will launch a new TV database set up to provide basic data on all the television channels accessible in the EU and the two candidate countries (Croatia and Turkey).
News categories: European Commission, European Audiovisual Observatory, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cable TV, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Digital TV, Estonia, Europe, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, IPTV, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Market Research, Mobile, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Satellite, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Terrestrial, Turkey, UK

Mobile TV across Europe: Commission endorses addition of DVB-H to EU List of Official Standards
Mar 17, 2008 – The European Commission has decided to add the Digital Video Broadcasting Handheld standard (DVB-H) to the EU List of Standards, which serves as a basis for encouraging the harmonised provision of telecommunications across the EU.
News categories: European Commission, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Digital TV, Estonia, Europe, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Mobile, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Regulation, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, UK

Lithuania's TEO Chooses Widevine to Protect "Gala" IPTV Service
Mar 11, 2008 – Widevine® Technologies has announced that TEO LT, AB has selected Widevine Cypher® to secure delivery of premium broadcast and video-on-demand content for its GALA IPTV service.
News categories: Widevine, TEO LT, Conditional Access, Content Distribution, Content Protection, Digital TV, IPTV, Lithuania, Set Top Box, Terrestrial