Europe Digital TV News

Romtelecom launches Dolce Interactiv IPTV in 10 cities
Dec 3, 2009 – A new IPTV service from Romtelecom is available in 10 major Romanian cities. Dolce Interactiv comes at an anniversary moment, at three years after the launch of Dolce, the satellite TV service of Romtelecom.
News categories: Romtelecom, Digital TV, DVR, IPTV, Romania, Set Top Box

ANACOM publishes 3Q09 pay TV numbers for Portugal
Dec 2, 2009 – According to the Autoridade Nacional de Comunicações (ANACOM), in the third quarter of 2009, the total number of pay TV subscribers in Portugal exceeded 2.4 million, 72 thousand more than in the previous quarter and 232 thousand more than a year earlier.
News categories: ANACOM, Cable TV, IPTV, Market Research, Portugal, Satellite, Subscribers

Norway completes digital TV switchover
Dec 2, 2009 – The last analogue television transmitter has been switched off in Norway, completing a switchover process which began in 2007.
News categories: Digital TV, Norway, Terrestrial

UK Freeview Passes 10 Million Benchmark
Dec 2, 2009 – Freeview has announced that it has passed a key benchmark to become the main-set TV service in 10 million UK homes.
News categories: Freeview, Digital TV, Market Research, Terrestrial, UK

Ruling on Rovi litigation with Virgin Media
Nov 30, 2009 – The High Court of Justice in the United Kingdom has issued its judgment in Rovi's (NASDAQ: ROVI) patent infringement litigation against Virgin Media (NASDAQ, LSE: VMED). The Court found that Virgin had infringed each of the patents but also found them to be invalid.
News categories: Rovi Corp, Virgin Media, Cable TV, Digital TV, Licensing, Middleware, Patent, Set Top Box, UK

T-Com Slovakia launches Magio DTH
Nov 26, 2009 – Slovak Telekom (Frankfurt: DTE)(NYSE:DT) has officially introduced its Magio satellite television service. More than 7000 customer pre-registrations were received by T-Com during the month, confirming the public's interest in the new service.
News categories: Slovak Telekom, Digital TV, Satellite, Slovakia

Alcatel-Lucent, Solaris Mobile and towerCast team up for DVB-SH mobile TV in Paris
Nov 26, 2009 – Alcatel-Lucent (Paris and NYSE: ALU), Solaris Mobile and towerCast have announced the first satellite broadcast infrastructure to demonstrate potential services using DVB-SH to be deployed in Paris and surrounding suburbs.
News categories: Alcatel-Lucent, Solaris Mobile, towerCast, Dibcom, Content Distribution, Digital TV, France, Mobile, Semiconductor

Volia plans IPTV for Ukraine
Nov 25, 2009 – VOLIA, the national Ukrainian telecom provider, has announced that it plans to launch IPTV in the second half of 2010.
News categories: Volia, IPTV, Ukraine

Com Hem adds 40k digital TV subscribers in 3Q09
Nov 25, 2009 – Com Hem has reported results for the first three quarters of 2009. Between the second and third quarter of 2009, the number of digital television subscribers increased by 8 percent to nearly 545,000 customers.
News categories: Com Hem, Cable TV, Results, Subscribers, Sweden