Europe Digital TV News

BT Vision adds 15k installations in last three months of 2009
Feb 11, 2010 – BT Group plc (BT.L) has announced results for the quarter to 31 December 2009. The BT Vision customer base grew to 451,000 at 31 December 2009, an increase of 15 thousand in the quarter and 75 thousand year-on-year.
News categories: BT Vision, IPTV, Results, Subscribers, UK

TeliaSonera adds 59k IPTV subscribers in 4Q09
Feb 11, 2010 – TeliaSonera (Stockholm: TLSN) has released its report for the period January-December 2009. The total number of TV subscriptions rose by 141,000 from the end of 2008 to 798,000, of which 620,000 were IPTV subscriptions.
News categories: TeliaSonera, Cable TV, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, IPTV, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Results, Subscribers, Sweden

Spain - February DTT monthly update released
Feb 11, 2010 – According to Impulsa-TDT, 1.36 million DTT receivers were sold in December, giving a cumulative total for Spain of 25.5 million units. Penetration of DTT in January was 80.8%, up by 3.4 percentage points since the end of 2009.
News categories: Impulsa-TDT, DVD, Market Research, Peripherals / Accessories, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Spain, Terrestrial

ADB Supports Telekom Austria For Europe's First DivX®-Enabled Digital TV Service
Feb 11, 2010 – Advanced Digital Broadcast (ADB) [SIX:ADBN] has announced that Telekom Austria (VSE: TKA, OTC US: TKAGY) has introduced advanced 'connected home' capabilities on its aonTV IPTV service using ADB set-top devices and software technology.
News categories: Advanced Digital Broadcast, Telekom Austria, DivX, Austria, Digital TV, IPTV, Media Player, Middleware, Set Top Box, Smart Home

16.7 million DTT receivers sold in Italy in 2009
Feb 10, 2010 – The DGTVi publishes a regular research report covering the development of the digital terrestrial market in Italy. Sales of integrated digital TVs (IDTVs) were 6.7 million, and sales of DTT set-top boxes (STBs) were 10.0 million in 2009.
News categories: DGTVi, GfK, Digital TV, DVB-MHP, Italy, Market Research, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial

KDG cable subscribers down 207k in 2009
Feb 10, 2010 – Kabel Deutschland (KDG) has announced results for the quarter ended December 31, 2009. Cable subscribers totaled 8.788 million on December 31, 2009, compared with 8.995 million at the end of 2008, a drop of 207 thousand over the year.
News categories: KDG, Cable TV, Germany, Results, Subscribers

TEO LT TV subscribers exceed 100k in 4Q09
Feb 10, 2010 – TEO LT (Vilnius:TEO1L) has released its fourth quarter 2009 results. The number of IPTV service users increased by 38.6% to 56 thousand and the number of DTT users increased 1.8 times and at the end of the year exceeded 46 thousand.
News categories: TEO LT, IPTV, Lithuania, Results, Subscribers, Terrestrial

Canal Digital DTH loses 11,000 subscribers in 4Q09
Feb 10, 2010 – Telenor (Oslo:TEL) has released results for the fourth quarter of 2009. The number of DTH subscribers decreased by 11,000, and the number of cable TV subscriptions decreased by 3,000 during the quarter.
News categories: Telenor, Cable TV, Denmark, Norway, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, Sweden

ER-Telecom ends 2009 with 973,000 cable TV subscribers
Feb 9, 2010 – Russian telecom holding ER-Telecom has reported results for 2009. The number of cable TV users for the whole year 2009 reached 973 thousand, or 10% higher as compared to 2008.
News categories: ER-Telecom, Cable TV, Results, Russia, Subscribers