France Digital TV News

France - ARCEP Q2 Commmunications Market Update
Oct 31, 2007 – With more than two million subscriptions added in a year, France had 3.8 million subscriptions to a television service via xDSL at the end of Q2 2007.
News categories: ARCEP, Broadband, Digital TV, France, IPTV, Market Research, Subscribers

Iliad 3Q 2007 Revenues
Oct 29, 2007 – During the 3rd quarter 2007, Iliad has confirmed the dynamism and quality of its organic growth with 141,000 net adds over the quarter. As of 30 September 2007, Free's ADSL subscriber base reached 2,767,000, vs. 2,626,000 as of 30 June 2007.
News categories: Iliad, Full Release, Broadband, Digital TV, France, IPTV, Results, Subscribers

France - 89% DTT coverage by end 2008
Oct 23, 2007 – The broadcast regulator, Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (CSA), has announced the roll-out of DTT services in 2008. National DTT coverage will reach 89% of the population by the end of 2008.
News categories: Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (CSA), Content Distribution, France, Terrestrial

Thomson: Third Quarter 2007 Revenues
Oct 18, 2007 – Thomson (Euronext Paris: 18453, NYSE:TMS) shipped 2.7 million satellite set-top boxes in 3Q07, 0.6 million cable set-top boxes, and 2.6 million access products for telecom operators - making a total of 5.8 million access products in the quarter.
News categories: Thomson, Full release, Broadband, Cable TV, Camcorder, Digital TV, France, Gateway, IPTV, Results, Satellite, Set Top Box, UK, USA

Juniper Research Expects Spectrum Scarcity to Block Mobile TV Launch in UK Until at Least 2010
Oct 17, 2007 – The number of mobile broadcast TV subscribers in Western Europe is expected to pass 20m by 2011, according to a new report from Juniper Research.
News categories: Juniper Research, Digital TV, Europe, France, Germany, Italy, Market Research, Mobile, UK

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

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