EU (European Union) Digital TV News

400,000 customers for Telenet Digital TV
Jan 18, 2008 – Telenet has announced that it has passed the milestone of 400,000 digital television customers. This success is partially boosted by a strong year-end campaign.
News categories: Telenet, Belgium, Cable TV, Digital TV, Subscribers

Mobile 3.0 wins German licence, opts for DVB-H
Jan 17, 2008 – Mobile 3.0, a joint venture between Mobiles Fernsehen Deutschland (MFD) and Neva Media, has won the nationwide mobile TV licence in Germany and chosen the DVB-H standard to roll out its service.
News categories: Mobile 3.0, Digital TV, Germany, Mobile, Regulation

France - Orange applies for a DVB-H Channel licence
Jan 16, 2008 – Orange has applied for two television channels in response to a call for applications made by the French Audiovisual Council for the allocation of DVB-H mode frequencies for broadcasting Personal Mobile Television services.
News categories: Orange, Digital TV, France, Mobile, Regulation

In Europe, IPTV grows stronger in less 'cabled' TV markets
Jan 16, 2008 – According to the newest edition of TV Markets Quarterly Monitoring from InfoCom, during 2Q07 most of the television viewers in Western Europe still prefer receiving television service over terrestrial.
News categories: InfoCom GmbH, Austria, Belgium, Cable TV, Denmark, Digital TV, Europe, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, IPTV, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Market Research, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Satellite, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Terrestrial, UK

SFR finishes 2007 with more than 350,000 3G/3G+ mobile TV subscribers
Jan 16, 2008 – In late December 2007, SFR crossed the milestone of 350,000 subscribers to its 3G/3G+ TV-on-mobile service.
News categories: SFR, 5G, Digital TV, France, Mobile, Subscribers

SFR and Alcatel-Lucent field validated the fundamental assumptions for the deployment of a DVB-SH Mobile TV terrestrial network
Jan 16, 2008 – Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU) has announced that, following a DVB-SH pilot with SFR, both companies validated the fundamental assumptions for the deployment of a DVB-SH network co-localized, for its terrestrial part, with an existing commercial 3G+ network.
News categories: Alcatel-Lucent, SFR, Digital TV, France, Mobile, Satellite

Arcor Selects VideoGuard® to Secure its New IPTV Service for Germany
Jan 16, 2008 – NDS has announced that Arcor, the second largest telecommunications provider in Germany, has selected NDS VideoGuard® content protection to secure its new IPTV service.
News categories: NDS Group, Arcor, Conditional Access, Content Protection, Digital TV, DRM, DVR, Germany, IPTV, Set Top Box

Spain to Help Bulgaria Move to Digital TV
Jan 16, 2008 – The Communications regulation commission (CRC) and the State secretariat on telecommunications and information society at the Spanish Ministry of industry will work on a new joint project.
News categories: Bulgaria, Digital TV, Regulation, Terrestrial

Pace chosen by Viasat to launch HD PVR in the Nordic Countries
Jan 16, 2008 – Pace Micro Technology (LSE:PIC) has been selected by Modern Times Group's Viasat Broadcasting, the leading digital satellite pay-TV broadcaster in Scandinavia and the Baltic states, to be the launch partner for its high definition PVR service.
News categories: Pace Micro, Modern Times Group, Denmark, Digital TV, DVR, Finland, Norway, Satellite, Set Top Box, Sweden