Latvia Digital TV News

Lattelecom Announces New-Generation TV
Jan 27, 2009 – The Latvian Cabinet of Ministers has decided that Lattelecom will be the provider of digital terrestrial television programming. Terrestrial broadcasts will be based on state-of-the-art technologies such as MPEG-4 compression.
News categories: Lattelecom, Digital TV, Latvia, Terrestrial

Planned EU tax could kill mobile TV
Dec 23, 2008 – European Commission plans to introduce a 14 percent tax on cellphones with TV receivers would kill the potentially lucrative market before it ever takes off, a senior official at DiBcom has said.
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Lattelecom wins DTT tender in Latvia
Dec 15, 2008 – The Latvian Ministry of Transport has announced Lattelecom as the winner of the tender for the implementation of digital terrestrial television transmission in Latvia.
News categories: Lattelecom, Latvia Ministry of Transport, Content Distribution, Latvia, Terrestrial

FTTH Council Issues First Official European Ranking Of FTTH Market Penetration
Dec 15, 2008 – The first official European Fibre"to"the"Home (FTTH) ranking shows smaller countries leading the way in FTTH connections. Mid-term projections show, however, that bigger economies are closing the gap.
News categories: FTTH Council, Broadband, Denmark, Estonia, Europe, Fibre, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Market Research, Netherlands, Norway, Slovenia, Subscribers, Sweden

Commission issues guidelines to get Mobile TV on Europeans' mobile phones
Dec 10, 2008 – The European Commission has published a set of guidelines for the authorisation of Mobile TV to accelerate roll-out of the service across Europe.
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IPTV Takes Root in Central and Eastern Europe, IDC Says
Nov 11, 2008 – A recent study published by IDC indicates that despite relatively limited uptake of IPTV in previous years, total IPTV subscriber connections in CEE are poised to grow more than 100% in 2008, from approximately 290,000 connections in 2007.
News categories: International Data Corp, Bulgaria, Cable TV, Croatia, Czech Republic, Digital TV, Estonia, Hungary, IPTV, Latvia, Lithuania, Market Research, Poland, Romania, Satellite, Slovakia, Slovenia, Subscribers

Solaris Mobile ready to take Europe into a new age of mobile services
Oct 7, 2008 – Solaris Mobile has announced that the company has submitted to the European Commission a comprehensive application in response to the Commission's call for applications for pan-European systems providing mobile satellite services.
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Protection of pay-TV services: Europe-wide protection against conditional-access piracy still indispensable, says Commission report
Oct 6, 2008 – In a changing market, it remains essential for the roll-out of pay-TV services that conditional-access systems be protected at European level against piracy. This is the verdict of a report published today by the European Commission.
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Commission starts selection procedure for operators of pan-European mobile satellite services
Aug 7, 2008 – A competition for providers of communication services via satellite across Europe has been launched by the European Commission. Satellite operators will be able to offer services, such as mobile TV, under a single European selection procedure.
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