EU (European Union) Digital TV News

300,000 Dolce clients in 10 months since the service was launched
Oct 8, 2007 – 300,000 clients chose the digital television service of Romtelecom in the 10 months since it was launched, proving that the Romanians have a high interest in best quality digital television services.
News categories: Romtelecom, Dolce, Digital TV, Romania, Satellite, Subscribers

Sagem Communications has already delivered more than 2 million MPEG4 Set-top boxes
Oct 8, 2007 – Sagem (SAFRAN Group) has announced the accumulated delivery of over 2 million MPEG-4 Set-top boxes and confirms that it will be the first supplier of dual MPEG2 and MPEG4 Freeview STBs dedicated to the reception of BSkyB's proposed Picnic DTTV service.
News categories: Sagem, Digital TV, DVR, France, IPTV, Set Top Box, Terrestrial, UK

Portugal Telecom Selects Ruckus Wireless as the Standard for In-home Wireless Distribution of National IPTV Service
Oct 8, 2007 – Ruckus Wireless has announced that Portugal Telecom (NYSE: PT) has selected and is now offering the Ruckus MediaFlex "Smart Wi-Fi" system as the wireless standard for IPTV distribution to over three million Portuguese households.
News categories: Ruckus Wireless, Portugal Telecom, BBWF, Digital TV, IPTV, Portugal, Smart Home

Triple-Play Bundles Work, but Quadruple-Play Packages are not yet Proven, says Analysys
Oct 8, 2007 – Experience demonstrates that triple-play bundles of TV, voice and broadband services have proven themselves as a means of increasing market share. Incumbent operators have used quadruple-play services as a defence against competitors' TV-based triple-play bundles, but without noticeable success.
News categories: Analysys, Australia, Austria, Czech Republic, Digital TV, France, Hong Kong, IPTV, Market Research, Mobile, Sweden, UK, USA

IPTV Deployments More Than Double In a Year as Broadband Continues to Achieve Strong Growth
Oct 8, 2007 – The DSL Forum today announced new broadband and IPTV statistics at the Broadband World Forum Europe in Berlin. The statistics, prepared for the DSL Forum by industry analyst Point Topic, show that the number of people using IPTV services increased by 179 per cent in the 12 months to 30 June 2007.
News categories: Point Topic, DSL Forum, Africa, Asia, BBWF, Broadband, Canada, China, Digital TV, DOCSIS, Europe, Fibre, France, Germany, IPTV, Italy, Japan, Korea, Latin America, Market Research, Middle-East, North America, Spain, Subscribers, UK, USA

Neuf Cegetel Selects Alcatel-Lucent's GPON Solution for Very High Speed Services
Oct 8, 2007 – Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris: ALU) (NYSE: ALU) has announced that Neuf Cegetel, France's leading alternative service provider, has selected it to deploy a Gigabit Passive Optical Networking solution (GPON) for very high-speed services.
News categories: Neuf Cegetel, Alcatel-Lucent, BBWF, Broadband, Digital TV, Fibre, France, IPTV

More customers for Sweden's Boxer
Oct 5, 2007 – By the end of September 2007 Boxer had 693,000 digital-TV subscribers, representing an increase of 39,000 hitherto during 2007 and an increase of 15,000 during the third quarter.
News categories: Boxer, Digital TV, Results, Subscribers, Sweden, Terrestrial

Spain - October DTT monthly update released
Oct 5, 2007 – Accumulated sales of DTT receivers in Spain, in the year to August, reached 6,111,859 units, close to the total number for the whole of 2006.
News categories: Impulsa-TDT, Digital TV, Market Research, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Spain, Terrestrial

PT Multimédia First Nine Months 2007 Results
Oct 5, 2007 – Pay-TV customers reached 1,521 thousand at the end of September 2007, with net additions of 26 thousand in 3Q07, as compared to net additions of 7 thousand in the same period last year.
News categories: PT Multimédia, Earnings Release, Broadband, Cable TV, Digital TV, Portugal, Results, Satellite, Subscribers