Middle-East and North Africa Digital TV News

European research project to shape next generation internet TV
Feb 19, 2008 – P2P-Next has received a €14 million grant from the European Union to carry out a research project aiming to identify the potential uses of peer-to-peer (P2P) technology for Internet Television of the future.
News categories: P2P-Next, Austria, Broadband, Digital TV, Europe, Finland, Germany, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Slovenia, Streaming, Sweden, UK

Israel - DTT services to be launched in August 2008
Feb 5, 2008 – On 4 February, the Knesset (Parliament) approved the legal framework to allow for the launch of DTT services. Services are expected to be launched by the end of the summer.
News categories: Digital TV, Israel, Regulation, Terrestrial

ROK Entertainment Group Inc. launches mobile TV service with Vodafone-Turkey
Jan 22, 2008 – ROK Entertainment (OTCBB: ROKE) has announced the launch in Turkey, through its regional representative Mobilturk, of a service with Vodafone for the provision of visual content direct to a user's mobile telephone.
News categories: ROK Entertainment, Vodafone, Digital TV, Mobile, Turkey

MENA: Showtime pirates outnumber subscribers 10-1
Jan 18, 2008 – Pay TV piracy is growing so fast that the number of viewers watching Showtime's service illegally is 10 times greater than the number of genuine subscribers.
News categories: Showtime DTH, Conditional Access, Digital TV, Middle-East, Satellite

Licence for mobile digital TV service in UAE by June
Jan 3, 2008 – The Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (TRA) will issue a licence for the mobile digital TV service in the country by middle of the year.
News categories: Telecommunication Regulatory Authority, Digital TV, Mobile, UAE

Digital TV Penetration Rate Will Be 43% in 2012
Dec 27, 2007 – According to the Korea Information Society Development Institute (KISDI), the proportion of digital TV subscribers in the world is expected to exceed 40% by 2012.
News categories: Korea Information Society Development Institute, Asia, Cable TV, China, Digital TV, Europe, India, IPTV, Japan, Latin America, Market Research, Middle-East, North America, Satellite, Terrestrial, USA

S2M and Space Systems/Loral Sign Innovative Mobile TV Satellite Contract
Dec 12, 2007 – S2M has announced the formal contract with Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) for the S2M-1 satellite - the first mobile TV satellite covering the Middle East and North Africa.
News categories: S2M, Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Digital TV, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mobile, Morocco, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Qatar, Satellite, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, UAE, Yemen

Tunisie Telecom selects Alcatel-Lucent's broadband access solution for triple play and VPNs
Dec 11, 2007 – Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) has announced that implementation has begun of a multi-million Euro contract with Tunisie Telecom, Tunisia's national incumbent operator, to deploy a DSL-based network.
News categories: Alcatel-Lucent, Tunisie Telecom, Broadband, Content Distribution, Digital TV, IPTV, Tunisia

Algérie Télécom Becomes First Operator to Pioneer Fibre-to-the-Home Strategy
Dec 10, 2007 – Algérie Télécom is deploying an FTTH network from French vendor Sagem Communication and on 15 December it will be launching a triple play offer with voice, broadband Internet and television.
News categories: Sagem, Algérie Télécom, Algeria, Broadband, Digital TV, Fibre, IPTV