Middle-East and North Africa Digital TV News

SoftAtHome and Etisalat Demonstrate Solutions for the Digital Home
Sep 29, 2008 – SoftAtHome has announced that Etisalat will be demonstrating SoftAtHome solutions for the Digital Home on their booth during the Gitex Technology Week in Dubai, paving the way for the deployment of convergent services in this part of the world.
News categories: SoftAtHome, Etisalat, Finance, Gateway, Media Player, Middleware, Set Top Box, Smart Home, Streaming, UAE

Nagravision Secures Commercial DVB-H Services for Alsumaria TV
Sep 12, 2008 – Nagravision (SWX:KUD.VX) has announced that Alsumaria TV, the Iraqi Satellite Network, has selected Nagravision's conditonal access system (CAS) for its DVB-H services.
News categories: Nagravision, Alsumaria, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Iraq, Mobile

Half the world's homes to have digital TV by 2013
Sep 8, 2008 – Digital TV growth continues apace, with Informa Telecoms and Media forecasting 67 million households to be added in 2008. This figure from Informa's Global Digital TV 8th edition report will bring the worldwide total to 343 million.
News categories: Informa Telecoms & Media, Asia, Cable TV, China, Digital TV, Europe, IPTV, Latin America, Market Research, Middle-East, North America, Satellite, Terrestrial, USA

Orange Jordan launches 'TV from Orange' service
Sep 7, 2008 – Orange Jordan has launched, in collaboration with INTRACOM TELECOM and ART, an advanced Internet Protocol TV service, 'TV from Orange', the first-of-its-kind in the Kingdom designed for broadband connection (ADSL) and Livebox.
News categories: Orange, Digital TV, IPTV, Jordan

DoÄŸan Yayın (D Smart) Business Review & 1H08 Results
Aug 29, 2008 – DoÄŸan Yayın Holding A.Åž. (DYH) (Istanbul:DYHOL) has published its 1H08 Results and Business Review. Dogan's DTH satellite service, D Smart, now has over 600 thousand subscribers, up from 91 thousand one year ago.
News categories: DoÄŸan, D Smart, CAM, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, Turkey

Kudelski Group 1st half 2008 - migration to service mode on track
Aug 29, 2008 – The Kudelski Group (SWX: KUD.VX) has announced results for its first half year ended June 30, 2008. In the first half 2008, Nagravision expanded its global reach with 92.3 million active devices for conditional access.
News categories: Nagravision, Kudelski, Cable TV, CAM, China, Conditional Access, Content Protection, Digital TV, Iraq, Middleware, Mobile, Results, Satellite, Set Top Box, Terrestrial

Oman - Public Consultation on Digital Video Broadcasting-Handheld (DVB-H)
Aug 23, 2008 – Oman's Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) is in the process of developing regulation for the introduction of DVB-H Technology and is seeking, through a Public Consultation, written comments from interested parties.
News categories: Telecommunications Regulatory Authority, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Mobile, Oman, Regulation

Bezeq Group (yes) Reports Second Quarter 2008 Financial Results
Aug 21, 2008 – Bezeq (TASE: BEZQ) has announced results for the quarter ended June 30, 2008. The number of yes subscribers as of June, 2008 was 551,000, up 8,000 subscribers from the year ago period and up from 549,000 as compared to March 31, 2008.
News categories: Bezeq, yes, Israel, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

Heavy investment in Europe's cable industry begins to pay off
Jul 22, 2008 – Europe's cable industry is now in a position to compete in the increasingly competitive pay TV market place according to the latest report from media analyst Screen Digest.
News categories: Screen Digest, Austria, Belgium, Cable TV, Czech Republic, Denmark, Digital TV, Estonia, Europe, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Luxembourg, Market Research, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Private Equity, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Subscribers, Sweden, Switzerland, UK