EU (European Union) Digital TV News

Charter agreed for the growth of mobile TV in France
Jan 15, 2008 – AB Groupe, Bolloré, Groupe Canal+, Lagardère, Groupe M6, Next Radio TV, NRJ Group and TF1 have signed a charter in which they commit themselves to the development of Télévision Mobile Personelle (TMP) in France.
News categories: Digital TV, France, Mobile

KPN has half a million TV viewers
Jan 15, 2008 – KPN has 500,000 digital television viewers for its two television services. In the first quarter of 2007 the total stood at 296,000 TV customers. By the end of the third quarter this had risen to 414,000.
News categories: KPN, Digital TV, IPTV, Netherlands, Subscribers, Terrestrial

300,000 customers have chosen Telia's digital TV service
Jan 15, 2008 – The number of customers choosing Telia's digital television service in Sweden is accelerating at record speed. The 300,000 mark was appropriately passed right at the beginning of the year.
News categories: TeliaSonera, Broadband, Digital TV, IPTV, Subscribers, Sweden

Viasat Launches High Definition Television
Jan 15, 2008 – MTG has announced that Viasat Broadcasting has launched its high definition television (HDTV) offering on its Nordic Satellite pay-TV platform, including two Viasat-branded premium HDTV channels - TV1000 HD and Viasat Sport HD.
News categories: MTG, Denmark, Digital TV, DVR, Finland, Norway, Satellite, Set Top Box, Sweden

Top Ten IPTV Carriers
Jan 14, 2008 – Light Reading has looked around the world and identified the operators that have the most IPTV subscribers and then ranked them in order.
News categories: Belgium, Broadband, China, Digital TV, France, Hong Kong, IPTV, Italy, Market Research, Middleware, Spain, Subscribers, Sweden, Taiwan

Tilgin Delivers Next-generation Home Gateways to Dansk Bredbånd's Fiber-Based VoIP and IPTV Offerings
Jan 14, 2008 – Dansk Bredbånd is investing $550,000 (US) in new next-generation Tilgin (STO:TILG) Home Gateways for its national roll out of triple play services.
News categories: Tilgin, Dansk Bredbånd, Broadband, Denmark, Digital TV, Fibre, Gateway, IPTV, Set Top Box

SecureMedia Protects The Caribbean's First IPTV Deployment
Jan 14, 2008 – SecureMedia has announced that Bonairean telecom operator Telefonia Bonairiano NV (Telbo) has launched 'mitv', its new Digital TV over ADSL 2+ network protected by the Encryptonite ONE System.
News categories: SecureMedia, Telefonia Bonairiano (Telbo), Broadband, Caribbean, Conditional Access, Content Protection, Digital TV, IPTV, Netherlands

Sweden - Continued growth for Boxer in 2007
Jan 10, 2008 – By 31st December 2007 Boxer had 709,000 digital pay TV subscribers, representing an increase of 55,000 in 2007 - equivalent to growth of nearly nine per cent. During the fourth quarter of 2007 the number of customers increased by 16,000.
News categories: Boxer, Digital TV, Subscribers, Sweden, Terrestrial

Spain - January DTT monthly update released
Jan 10, 2008 – From June to November 2007 2.3 million DTT receivers were sold to give a total of 7.4 million units, a number expected to have exceeded 8 million by the end of December.
News categories: Impulsa-TDT, Digital TV, Market Research, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Spain, Terrestrial