EU (European Union) Digital TV News

Telenet concludes DTT transmission agreement with Norkring
Feb 18, 2010 – Telenet (Brussels: TNET) has signed an agreement with Norkring België concerning the use of capacity on the latter's broadcasting infrastructure. This will enable Telenet to offer digital terrestrial TV and radio in Flanders and Brussels.
News categories: Telenet, Belgium, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Terrestrial

Nagravision licenses conditional access to CAM maker E-DOMUS
Feb 18, 2010 – Nagravision (SIX:KUD.VX) has announced that it has signed a license agreement with E-DOMUS INTERNATIONAL LIMITED enabling it to produce and market Conditional Access Modules (CAMs) integrating Nagravision's Conditional Access Systems (CAS).
News categories: Nagravision, CAM, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Spain

Poland's 'n' DTH adds 120k post-paid in 4Q09
Feb 18, 2010 – TVN Group has announced results for the fourth quarter and full year 2009. The 'n' DTH platform reached 692 thousand active subscribers as of the end of 2009, up by over 120 thousand in the fourth quarter.
News categories: TVN Group, Poland, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

Swisscom TV adds 44k subscribers in 4Q09
Feb 18, 2010 – Swisscom (Swiss: SCMN) has released its Annual Report for 2009. The number of Swisscom TV customers almost doubled in the space of a year to end 2009 at 230,000.
News categories: Swisscom, Fastweb, IPTV, Italy, Results, Set Top Box, Subscribers, Switzerland

Com Hem adds 31k digital TV subscribers in 4Q09
Feb 17, 2010 – Com Hem has reported results for 2009. During the fourth quarter of 2009, the number of digital television subscriptions increased by 31,100 (6 percent) to 575,800 subscriptions.
News categories: Com Hem, Cable TV, Results, Subscribers, Sweden

France: CSA sets HD DTT timetable
Feb 17, 2010 – France's Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (CSA) has set a new timetable for the deployment of digital terrestrial television in high definition on multiplex R5, covering services from TF1 HD, France 2 HD et M6 HD.
News categories: Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel, Digital TV, France, Terrestrial

T-Hrvatski Telekom IPTV subscribers up 74% in 2009
Feb 16, 2010 – T-Hrvatski Telekom (Reuters: THTC.L, HT.ZA; Bloomberg: THTC LI, HTRA CZ) has announced results for the year ended 31 December 2009. By the end of 2009, IPTV customers reached 235,980, an increase of 74.1% from the beginning of the year.
News categories: T-Hrvatski Telekom, Croatia, IPTV, Results, Subscribers

150,000 active users for TivùSat
Feb 16, 2010 – The number of TivùSat cards ordered by set-top box and television manufacturers for Italy's free-to-air satellite TV service has reached 790,000. With an activation rate of around 1300 to 1500 a day, the number of active users has reached 150,000.
News categories: TivùSat, CAM, Digital TV, Italy, Satellite, Set Top Box, Smart TV

Telekom Austria customers get enhanced IPTV
Feb 15, 2010 – Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) will replace the IPTV platform of Telekom Austria (VSE: TKA, OTC US: TKAGY) in order to deliver content services to multiple devices eliminating barriers between the TV set and PCs, and introduce a new user interface.
News categories: Ericsson, Telekom Austria, Austria, Content Distribution, IPTV, Middleware