Middle-East and North Africa Digital TV News

Bezeq (yes) Reports Fourth Quarter And Full Year 2008 Results
Mar 24, 2009 – yes (TASE: BEZQ) grew its customer base by 2.0% in 2008 with 560,000 subscribers as of December 31, 2008, up 10,400 subscribers from the year ago period and up from 556,000 as of September 30, 2008.
News categories: Bezeq, Israel, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

ASTRA Extends European Reach To 122 Million Homes
Mar 24, 2009 – SES ASTRA (Paris and Luxembourg: SESG) has announced that it has significantly increased its reach in Europe, particularly in France, Ukraine and the UK, and is now broadcasting to 122 million analogue and digital TV homes across Europe.
News categories: SES ASTRA, Cable TV, Digital TV, Europe, IPTV, Market Research, Middle-East, Satellite, Terrestrial

Kalimat to launch IPTV and mobile TV in Iraq and Kuwait
Mar 19, 2009 – Kalimat Telecom has signed a 50/50 joint venture deal with PCCW (Hong Kong:0008) to launch IPTV and mobile TV in Iraq and Kuwait. Launch is expected in the fourth quarter of 2009 or early 2010.
News categories: PCCW, Kalimat Telecom, Digital TV, IPTV, Iraq, Kuwait, Mobile

Türk Telekom Selects Envivio Encoding Platform for IPTV Service Launch
Mar 17, 2009 – Envivio has announced that its Convergence Series video headend has been selected for Türk Telekom's IPTV project in Turkey. Türk Telekom will use Envivio encoders and NMS to deliver an extensive line-up of SD and HD channels for its IPTV service.
News categories: Envivio, Türk Telekom, Content Distribution, Digital TV, IPTV, Turkey, Video Exchange

Two new countries run T-DMB trials
Jan 28, 2009 – According to the Korea Communications Commission, pilot services of Korean-developed terrestrial digital multimedia broadcasting or DMB have begun in Malaysia and a Middle Eastern country.
News categories: Korea Communications Commission, Digital TV, Malaysia, Middle-East, Mobile

Canal+ launches satellite bouquet for the Maghreb
Jan 21, 2009 – The Canal+ Group (Paris: VIV), through its subsidiary CANAL OVERSEAS, has announced the launch of a bouquet of French language satellite channels covering Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia.
News categories: CANAL OVERSEAS, Arabsat, Algeria, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Morocco, Satellite, Tunisia

Maroc Telecom consolidated revenues at December 31, 2008
Jan 19, 2009 – Maroc Telecom's landline Internet customer base reached 482,000 lines at the end of 2008, up 1.3% compared to 2007, to which nearly 30,000 Internet Mobile 3G+ and 10,000 IPTV customers have to be added.
News categories: Maroc Telecom, IPTV, Morocco, Results, Subscribers

Israel DTT launch set for July 2009
Jan 15, 2009 – The launch of DTT services in Israel is due to take place in July 2009 using MPEG-4 AVC compression. Analogue switch-off is planned to be completed by the end of 2010.
News categories: Digital TV, Israel, Set Top Box, Terrestrial

OpenTV Expands Offering for HOT in Israel
Dec 3, 2008 – OpenTV (NASDAQ:OPTV) has announced that HOT in Israel has launched OpenTV Core2 to power the operator's new high definition television services.
News categories: OpenTV, HOT, Cable TV, Digital TV, Israel, Middleware, Set Top Box