Europe Digital TV News

Dialog Telecom Selects Scopus to Power its IPTV Service in Poland
Mar 4, 2009 – Scopus Video Networks (NASDAQ: SCOP) has announced that Dialog Telecom has launched its new IPTV service using a video distribution network based on Scopus video networking solutions.
News categories: Scopus Video Network, Dialog Telecom, Content Distribution, Digital TV, IPTV, Poland

Swisscom - Stable core business with strong increase in customers
Mar 4, 2009 – Swisscom (Swiss: SCMN) closed the 2008 financial year with net revenue up 10.0% to CHF 12,198 million and operating income (EBITDA) up 6.4% to CHF 4,789 million. By the end of 2008 Bluewin TV had doubled its customer base year-on-year to 118,000.
News categories: Swisscom, IPTV, Italy, Results, Subscribers, Switzerland

France Telecom 2008 annual results
Mar 4, 2009 – France Telecom (Paris & NYSE: FTE) has reased its 2008 results. Digital and satellite TV subscribers rose to 2.1 million in Europe at 31 December 2008 (mainly in France), compared with 1.2 million a year earlier, an increase of 66%.
News categories: France Telecom, France, IPTV, Poland, Results, Satellite, Spain, Subscribers

Deutsche Telekom launches free-of-charge movie portal 'Videoload free'
Mar 3, 2009 – 'Videoload free', the free online video library from Deutsche Telekom (Frankfurt: DTE; NYSE:DT), opens its virtual doors with more than 600 films and TV series. All content is available in high Videoload quality and is financed by advertising.
News categories: Deutsche Telekom, Digital TV, Germany, Streaming

FastTV launches broadband TV PVR
Mar 3, 2009 – FastTV has launched its broadband TV 160GB personal video recorder (PVR) for the Scandinavian market.
News categories: FastTV, Denmark, DVR, Norway, Set Top Box, Streaming, Sweden

Vivendi: 2008 Goals Reached
Mar 2, 2009 – Vivendi (Paris: VIV) revenues reached €25,392 million compared to €21,657 million in 2007. In 2008, the digitization of the Canal+ subscriber base accelerated with nearly 350,000 upgrades from analog to digital offers.
News categories: Vivendi, France, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

T-HT delivered strong performance in 2008
Feb 27, 2009 – T-Hrvatski Telekom (London: THTC; Zagreb: HT-R-A) has announced its consolidated audited results for the financial year 2008. MAXtv has been a major success with a 210.0% increase in subscribers to 135,573.
News categories: T-Hrvatski Telekom, Croatia, IPTV, Results, Subscribers

Antenna Hungária and TechniSat Digital cooperate for MinDigTV
Feb 27, 2009 – TechniSat Digital will start to supply DVB-T MPEG-4 HD digital terrestrial set-top-boxes to Antenna Hungária from May 2009. The receiver design was specially developed according to the technical requirements of Antenna Hungária.
News categories: TechniSat, Antenna Hungária, MinDig TV, Digital TV, Hungary, Set Top Box, Terrestrial

Deutsche Telekom exceeds financial targets for 2008
Feb 27, 2009 – Deutsche Telekom (Frankfurt: DTE)(NYSE:DT) exceeded its financial targets in the 2008 financial year. The number of Entertain triple-play lines activated climbed to around 353,000 by year-end.
News categories: Deutsche Telekom, Croatia, Germany, Hungary, IPTV, Macedonia, Montenegro, Results, Slovakia, Subscribers