Belgium Digital TV News

Belgacom TV adds 62,000 subscriptions in 1Q10
May 7, 2010 – In the first quarter of 2010, Belgacom (Brussels: BELG) added 62,000 new Belgacom TV-customers resulting in a total customer base of 814,000 customers. Compared to one year ago Belgacom's TV customer base has grown by almost 50%.
News categories: Belgacom, Belgium, IPTV, Results, Subscribers

Liberty Global adds 286k digital cable and loses 5k DTH subscribers in 1Q10
May 6, 2010 – Liberty Global (NASDAQ: LBTYA, LBTYB and LBTYK) has announced results for the first quarter 2010. Digital cable was the strongest product with 286,000 organic additions to give 6.0 million digital cable RGUs at the end of the period.
News categories: Liberty Global, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Cable TV, Chile, Czech Republic, DVR, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, Puerto Rico, Results, Romania, Slovakia, Subscribers, Switzerland

Telenet adds 65,000 Digital TV customers in 1Q10
Apr 26, 2010 – Telenet (Brussels: TNET) has announced its results for the three months ended March 31, 2010. At the end of March 2010, Telenet served 1,065,000 digital TV subscribers, up 37% compared to the prior year period.
News categories: Telenet, Belgium, Cable TV, Results, Subscribers

Belgacom TV offers the first Belgian football match in 3D
Mar 26, 2010 – Belgacom (Brussels: BELG) has announced that following a successful trial on March 10th, and thanks to its partners Outside Broadcast and Samsung (Seoul: 005930), it will offer the first 3D capture of an event in Belgium on 8 May.
News categories: Belgacom, Belgium, Digital TV, IPTV, Metaverse

Viaccess, Orca and Alpha Networks partner for launch of Billi, a new Belgian Triple Play Operator
Mar 23, 2010 – Viaccess and Orca Interactive (Paris & NYSE: FTE) have been selected to provide Conditional Access and DRM and Orca's IP native TV-middleware 'RiGHTV' to Alpha Networks who have recently launched Billi, a new Belgian triple play operator.
News categories: Viaccess, Orca Interactive, Alpha Networks, Billi, Belgium, Conditional Access, Content Distribution, Digital TV, IBCShow, IPTV, Middleware

Telenet proves CI Plus with technology from S&T
Mar 3, 2010 – Strategy & Technology has announced that it has successfully completed a CI Plus (CI+) Proof of Concept (PoC) project for Telenet, Belgium's largest cable TV operator.
News categories: Strategy & Technology, Telenet, Neotion, Belgium, Cable TV, CAM, Digital TV, MHEG-5, Smart TV

Belgacom TV adds 89,000 subscriptions in 4Q09
Feb 26, 2010 – Belgacom (Brussels: BELG) has released its annual results for 2009. In 2009, Belgacom grew its TV customer base by 246,000 subscribers, compared to 201,000 in 2008. In the fourth quarter of 2009 Belgacom TV added a record 89,000 new subscriptions.
News categories: Belgacom, Belgium, IPTV, Results, Subscribers

Telenet reaches 1 million digital TV customers in 4Q09
Feb 24, 2010 – Telenet (Brussels: TNET) has announced results for the full year ended December 31, 2009. At the end of December 2009, Telenet served 1,001,000 digital TV customers, up 49% compared to the prior year period.
News categories: Telenet, Belgium, Cable TV, Results, Subscribers

Liberty Global adds 382k digital cable and 23k DTH subscribers in 4Q09
Feb 24, 2010 – Liberty Global (NASDAQ: LBTYA, LBTYB and LBTYK) has announced results for the fourth quarter 2009. Digital cable was Liberty Global's most successful product in 2009 with 1.6 million digital cable additions, including 377,000 in the fourth quarter.
News categories: Liberty Global, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Cable TV, Chile, Czech Republic, DVR, Hungary, Ireland, Japan, MMDS, Netherlands, Poland, Puerto Rico, Results, Romania, Satellite, Slovakia, Subscribers, Switzerland