Netherlands (Holland) Digital TV News

European Commission strategy for Mobile TV in Europe endorsed by Member States
Nov 29, 2007 – EU Member States have endorsed the European Commission three pillar strategy presented in July: putting in place a joint approach to licensing; making available spectrum for services; and promoting the use of DVB-H as the mobile TV standard for Europe.
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Liberty Global Reports Third Quarter 2007 Results
Nov 8, 2007 – Liberty Global (NASDAQ: LBTYA, LBTYB, LBTYK) has announced financial and operating results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2007. Digital cable additions continued to accelerate in the third quarter, with the addition of 234,000 organic RGUs, a 19% improvement over the comparable period in 2006.
News categories: Liberty Global, Earnings Release, Austria, Belgium, Cable TV, Chile, Czech Republic, Digital TV, Hungary, Ireland, Japan, Netherlands, Results, Romania, Satellite, Slovakia, Slovenia, Subscribers, Switzerland

OECD broadband statistics (June 2007)
Nov 5, 2007 – Over the past year, the number of broadband subscribers in the OECD increased 24% from 178 million in June 2006 to 221 million subscribers in June 2007. Broadband penetration rates increased from 15.1 in June 2006 to 18.8 subscriptions per 100 inhabitants one year later.
News categories: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Broadband Statistics Portal, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Broadband, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Fibre, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, Market Research, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Subscribers, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, UK, USA

KPN Results for the period ending September 30, 2007
Oct 30, 2007 – At the end of the third quarter KPN had 414k TV subscribers, representing a 17% share of the Dutch digital TV market, up 3% points compared to the previous quarter.
News categories: KPN, Full Results, 5G, Belgium, Broadband, Digital TV, Germany, Mobile, Netherlands, Results, Subscribers, Terrestrial

Digital TV increases to 41% of Dutch households
Oct 3, 2007 – In the Netherlands, the digitalisation of media and communication services continues at a fast pace. Digital TV now reaches 41% of all households, an increase of 50% compared with last year.
News categories: synovate/Interview NSS, Broadband, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, IPTV, Market Research, Netherlands, TV Services

Almost one-third of Dutch TV connections are digital
Oct 1, 2007 – The total number of Dutch TV connections stabilised at 7.027 million connections at the end of the second quarter of 2007, with the number of digital TV connections growing by 4.2 percent to 2.2 million, according to Telecompaper's quarterly update on the Dutch TV market.
News categories: Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Netherlands, Terrestrial

KPN Chooses Bluestreak Technology to Deliver 3G Mobile TV Client
Sep 27, 2007 – Bluestreak Technology will provide its MachBlue Mobile solution to support KPN's start of mobile TV by offering MobielTV. This service will be free of charge to early adopting customers until the end of 2007.
News categories: KPN, Bluestreak Technology, 5G, Digital TV, Media Player, Middleware, Mobile, Netherlands

Half of families in Western Europe are now receiving digital television
Sep 24, 2007 – Digital television in Western Europe is reaching a decisive milestone this month, overtaking the analogue system for the first time. There are now about 83 million households in the region's 20 countries receiving digital television signals out of a total of 166 million TV households.
News categories: e-Media Institute, Cable TV, Digital TV, Europe, Finland, France, Germany, IPTV, Italy, Luxembourg, Market Research, Netherlands, Satellite, Spain, Subscribers, Terrestrial, TV Services, UK

Sling Media goes Dutch with UPC
Sep 13, 2007 – European cable operator UPC has announced a trial to introduce Sling Media's 'place-shifting' device, the Slingbox, to The Netherlands.
News categories: Sling Media, UPC Netherlands, Cable TV, Digital TV, Netherlands, Placeshifting, Set Top Box