EU (European Union) Digital TV News

Telekomunikacja Polska signed a cooperation agreement with CANAL+
Dec 15, 2007 – Telekomunikacja Polska (TP) has signed an agreement with CANAL+ Cyfrowy, operator of CYFRA+, that will allow TP to provide customers with TV programs via satellite, based on the CANAL+ technical infrastructure.
News categories: Telekomunikacja Polska, CANAL+ Cyfrowy, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Poland, Satellite

Tsinghua Tongfang Wins Bulgarian IPTV STB Order
Dec 14, 2007 – According to a source at Tsinghua Tongfang's Consumer Electronics Department, the company has won an order from a Bulgarian IPTV provider for 10,000 IPTV set-top boxes.
News categories: Tsinghua Tongfang, Bulgaria, Digital TV, IPTV, Set Top Box

Alcatel-Lucent, 3 Italia and RAI Join Forces for the First DVB-SH Mobile TV Trial in Italy
Dec 14, 2007 – Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU), the mobile operator 3 Italia and Italian public broadcaster RAI are launching the first trial of Mobile TV based on the DVB-SH standard in Italy.
News categories: 3 Italia, RAI, Alcatel-Lucent, Digital TV, Italy, Mobile, Satellite

OpenTV and Sky Italia Extend Partnership
Dec 13, 2007 – OpenTV Corp. (Nasdaq: OPTV) has announced that Sky Italia has entered into a multi-year renewal of its middleware license agreement with OpenTV.
News categories: OpenTV, SKY Italia, Digital TV, DVR, Italy, Middleware, Satellite, Set Top Box

Telefónica Czech Republic - O2 TV has 70,000 customers
Dec 13, 2007 – The number of O2 TV digital television subscribers has surpassed 70,000, thus strengthening Telefónica O2's position in the home entertainment market.
News categories: Telefónica O2 Czech Republic, Czech Republic, Digital TV, IPTV, Subscribers

IPTV subscriber numbers in seventh heaven
Dec 12, 2007 – Significant growth will result in 38.4 million IPTV homes by 2012 - or more than seven times as much as the end-2006 figure, according to a new research report published by Informa Telecoms & Media.
News categories: Informa Telecoms & Media, IPTV (3rd edition), China, Digital TV, France, Germany, IPTV, Italy, Japan, Market Research, Norway, Singapore, Subscribers, Taiwan, USA

PT Multimédia announces approval of Strategic Plan
Dec 12, 2007 – The Board of Directors of PT Multimédia have approved the Company's Stategic Plan until 2010.
News categories: PT Multimédia, Multimédia Strategic Plan Presentation, Broadband, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, Finance, Portugal, Satellite

Hungary - NCA to issue DTT tenders in spring 2008
Dec 12, 2007 – Hungary's National Communications Authority (NCA) is expected to issue tenders in spring 2008 in preparation for the launch of digital terrestrial television and radio broadcasting.
News categories: National Communications Authority, Digital TV, Hungary, Regulation, Terrestrial

Tiscali TV Has Begun Airing and Viewers Will Never Be the Same
Dec 11, 2007 – Tiscali is delighted to announce the launch of TISCALI TV. The television channel, transmitted over IP network and received directly on home TVs, will initially be available in the Cagliari, Milan and Rome areas and will be free until 31 March 2008.
News categories: Tiscali, TISCALI TV, Broadband, Digital TV, IPTV, Italy, Terrestrial