Italy Digital TV News

Mediaset planning to launch 8 pay-TV digital channels
Mar 5, 2007 – Mediaset SpA is planning to launch eight pay-TV broadcast channels in digital terrestial mode, said Corriere della Sera in an unsourced report on Saturday. More …
News categories: Digital TV, Italy, Terrestrial

The Kudelski Group achieves strongest-ever financial results in 2006
Feb 16, 2007 – The Kudelski Group (SWX KUD.VX) has announced strongest-ever 2006 results. For the first time, Digital TV broke the CHF 500 million revenue mark, with a particularly robust development in Europe, growing by 17% compared to the previous year.
News categories: Kudelski, Belgium, Cable TV, CAM, Conditional Access, Czech Republic, Digital TV, France, Hungary, IPTV, Italy, Latin America, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Middleware, Mobile, Poland, Results, Romania, Satellite, Semiconductor, Slovakia, Spain, Streaming, USA

ONDA Communication SpA unveils advanced 3G DVB-H phone, co-developed by ZTE and Powered by Siano
Feb 13, 2007 – ONDA Communication SpA has unveiled its new advanced 3G DVB-H phone at 3GSM Barcelona, co-developed with China's largest listed telecommunications manufacturer ZTE and based on the multi-standard receiver chip by Siano Mobile Silicon.
News categories: Siano Mobile Silicon, Onda Communication, ZTE, 5G, Digital TV, Italy, Mobile, MWC24, Semiconductor

Italy's RAI asks Cisco to build set-top box for digital, internet TV
Feb 12, 2007 – Italian state-owned broadcaster RAI said it has asked Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) to build a new generation set-top box for both digital terrestrial and internet TV.
News categories: Cisco Systems, RAI, Digital TV, Italy, Set Top Box, Streaming, Terrestrial

News Corp. Results for the Quarter ended December 31, 2006
Feb 7, 2007 – SKY Italia, part of News Corporation (NYSE: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV), added more than 432,000 net subscribers over the past 12 months, bringing its subscriber base to 4.03 million at quarter end.
News categories: Sky Italia, News Corp, Digital TV, Italy, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

Nagravision hooks up with Vodafone Italy to protect new mobile TV service
Feb 5, 2007 – Nagravision has been selected by Vodafone Italy to protect the content rights for its Digital Video Broadcasting Handheld (DVB-H) mobile TV service - Vodafone SKY TV.
News categories: Nagravision, Vodafone, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Italy, Mobile

IPTV Subscribers Grow 19% in 3Q06!
Dec 29, 2006 – According to DITTBERNER's recently released report "Global Broadband Subscriber Survey", IPTV subscribers grew 19% to 2.7 Million in 3Q06. PCCW with 638,000 subscribers was the largest IPTV operator.
News categories: DITTBERNER, Belgium, Broadband, Digital TV, France, Hong Kong, IPTV, Italy, Market Research, Morocco, Netherlands, Russia, Spain, Sweden, UK

Sky Italia ordered to license set-box software to rivals
Dec 19, 2006 – Italy's communications authority has ordered News Corp's satellite pay-TV unit Sky Italia to licence its set-top box encryption software to rival set-top suppliers, authority sources said.
News categories: Sky Italia, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Italy, Middleware, Satellite, Set Top Box