EU (European Union) Digital TV News

Sogecable, Orange sign Spanish triple-play deal
Dec 27, 2007 – Sogecable (SGCE.MC) and France Telecom's (FTE.PA) Orange have said that they have agreed to launch a triple-play offer linking Orange's high-speed Internet and mobile phone services and the Spanish firm's pay-TV channel.
News categories: Sogecable, Orange, Digital TV, Mobile, Spain

Deutsche Telekom claims 100,000 IPTV customers
Dec 21, 2007 – The German incumbent telecom operator Deutsche Telekom has announced it has reached 100,000 customers for its IPTV service T-Home Entertain.
News categories: T-Home, Digital TV, Germany, IPTV, Subscribers

Cyfrowy Polsat hits 2 million mark
Dec 21, 2007 – The Polish DTG platform Cyfrowy Polsat has announced that it now has 2 million subscribers.
News categories: Cyfrowy Polsat, Digital TV, Poland, Satellite, Subscribers

Telefonia Bonairiano Launches IPTV Under the Name of 'MITV' as A First in the Caribbean Region
Dec 20, 2007 – Telefonia Bonairiano has launched IPTV under the name of "mitv" to its residential and business subscribers, becoming the first in the Caribbean and Central America to establish a triple play (video, voice and data) offering.
News categories: Telbo, Broadband, Caribbean, Digital TV, IPTV, Netherlands

Mobile TV trials set for Poland
Dec 19, 2007 – A total of 12 companies are reported to have joined forces to start a mobile TV trial in Poland, perhaps as soon as the beginning of next year.
News categories: Digital TV, Mobile, Poland

Dutch digital TV connections to reach 4 million in Q2 2008
Dec 19, 2007 – The total number of Dutch TV connections grew slightly during the third quarter to 7.88 million on 30 September 2007.
News categories: Telecompaper, Cable TV, Digital TV, Market Research, Netherlands, Satellite, Subscribers

Entavio CI module from January 2008
Dec 18, 2007 – German digital platform entavio will launch its planned common interface module (CI) in January 2008.
News categories: entavio, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Germany, Satellite

TUÅ  TELEKOM Selects Envivio Convergence Encoding Solution to Deliver IPTV Services
Dec 18, 2007 – Envivio has announced that it is providing a Convergence Generation™ video headend for TUÅ  TELEKOM's live standard definition (SD) and high definition (HD) IPTV services in Slovenia.
News categories: Envivio, TUÅ  TELEKOM, Content Distribution, Digital TV, IPTV, Slovenia

Magyar Telekom provides first HD TV service in Hungary
Dec 17, 2007 – Magyar Telekom is the first in Hungary to carry HD TV broadcasts on its network. The company launched a pilot project in the 11th district of Budapest in the summer of 2007, to test the underlying VDSL2+ technology of the service.
News categories: Magyar Telekom, Broadband, Digital TV, Hungary, IPTV