EU (European Union) Digital TV News

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

FTTH growth accelerates in Europe
Feb 24, 2010 – In 2009, growth in terms of subscribers and Homes/Buildings passed has accelerated in Europe. In EU36 (including Russia), there were nearly 3.5 million FTTH/B subscribers and more than 25 million Homes/Buildings Passed.
News categories: IDATE, FTTH Council, Broadband, Denmark, Digital TV, Europe, Fibre, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, IPTV, Italy, Lithuania, Market Research, Middle-East, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Streaming, Subscribers, Sweden

Austria Telekom aonTV adds 38,000 subscribers in 2009
Feb 24, 2010 – Telekom Austria Group (VSE: TKA, OTC US: TKAGY) has announced results for the quarter ending December 31, 2009. The Fixed Net segment increased its aonTV subscriber base by 58.8% to 101,300 subscribers in 4Q 09 compared to 63,800 subscribers in 4Q 08.
News categories: Telekom Austria, Austria, IPTV, Results, Subscribers

Abertis Integrates Irdeto to Strengthen its TDT Premium Digital Content Security
Feb 24, 2010 – Irdeto (JSE: NPN) and Abertis Telecom (Madrid: ABE) have worked to validate the Irdeto Conditional Access System (CAS) integration into Abertis Telecom's open digital terrestrial TV TDT Premium platform.
News categories: Irdeto, Abertis Telecom, CAM, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Spain, Terrestrial

Telekomunikacja Polska adds 40k IPTV and 219k DTH subscribers in 2009
Feb 23, 2010 – Telekomunikacja Polska (TP) has provided selected financial and operating data related to the activities of TP Group for the full year 2009. TP's TV subscriber base grew by more than 300% to 372,000 compared with 113,000 at the end of 2008.
News categories: Telekomunikacja Polska, IPTV, Poland, Satellite, Subscribers

Netia reconsiders IPTV deal with TVN Group
Feb 22, 2010 – Netia (WSE: NET) has announced results for the fourth quarter 2009. Following delays in reaching an agreement to distribute 'n's DTH offering over IPTV to Netia's broadband customers, both Netia and the TVN Group have decided to reconsider.
News categories: Netia, IPTV, Poland, Results

Pace partners with M7 Group in major HD roll out
Feb 22, 2010 – Luxembourg-based satellite TV operator M7 Group has chosen set-top box technology from Pace (LSE:PIC) to bring high definition (HD) TV content and personal video recording to its customers.
News categories: Pace plc, Belgium, Conditional Access, Digital TV, DVR, Luxembourg, Middleware, Netherlands, Satellite, Set Top Box

DIGITAL+ in Spain down 189k subscribers in 2009
Feb 19, 2010 – Grupo PRISA (Madrid: PRS), owner of Sogecable, has reported results for 2009. The total number of Digital+ subscribers as of December 31, 2009, was 1,845,805 down 53,400 from the end of September 2009.
News categories: Sogecable, PRISA, Results, Satellite, Spain, Subscribers