Satellite Television (DBS, DTH, DSat, DVB-S, DVB-S2) News

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.
News categories: Solaris Mobile, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Content Distribution, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Digital TV, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Mobile, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Regulation, Romania, Satellite, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, UK

Romania - Boom TV reaches 200,000 subscribers
Oct 7, 2008 – Romanian satellite TV operator, Boom TV, has exceeded 200,000 customers, up 300% from the same period last year. Boom is the brand of the DTH Television Grup.
News categories: Boom TV, Digital TV, Romania, Satellite, Subscribers

TechniSat Digital supplies STBs for Pre-pay DTH for Poland
Oct 7, 2008 – Since 3rd October, Cyfrowy Dom has started offering viewers Telewizja na karte - TNK ('TV on card'). To receive TNK, viewers will be required to buy a decoder using Conax CA, supplied by TechniSat Digital.
News categories: TechniSat, Telewizja na karte, Digital TV, Poland, Satellite, Set Top Box

India - Airtel makes its satellite television debut
Oct 7, 2008 – Bharti Airtel (Bombay: BRTI) has announced the launch of Airtel digital TV, its Direct To Home (DTH) satellite TV service. The service will be available to customers through 21,000 retail points in 62 cities across the country starting October 9, 2008.
News categories: Bharti Airtel, Digital TV, DVB-S2, India, Satellite, Set Top Box

New Zealand - Freeview powers past the 160,000 mark
Oct 6, 2008 – Freeview continues its strong growth as the ever expanding channel and HD line-up attracts more New Zealanders. At the end of September 160,496 receivers had been sold, with an additional 37,980 receivers added in the July to September quarter.
News categories: Freeview NZ, Digital TV, Market Research, New Zealand, Satellite, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Terrestrial

Free satellite in 900,000 UK households
Oct 3, 2008 – Ofcom's 'Communications Market: Digital Progress Report' for the second quarter of 2008 shows around 840,000 homes were using free satellite on their main television set. This was an increase of around 120,000 on the previous quarter.
News categories: Ofcom, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, Market Research, Satellite, Subscribers, Terrestrial, UK

Spain - 37.4% of households have DTT reception
Oct 2, 2008 – According to Spain's Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), two years from analogue shutdown, planned for April 2010, only 37.4% of households have terrestrial digital television reception (DTT).
News categories: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Spain, Subscribers, Terrestrial

France - First digital TV survey results released
Oct 2, 2008 – France's digital TV 'Observatoire' has made public the results of its first half 2008 study. Nearly 30% of households are fully digital with digital terrestrial television providing most of the growth. TV over ADSL also made significant advances.
News categories: Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel, Médiamétrie, Cable TV, Digital TV, France, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Subscribers, Terrestrial

Premiere Releases Q3 Subscriber Figures
Oct 2, 2008 – Premiere AG (PRE.XE) has disclosed EBITDA guidance for 2008 and released Q3 2008 subscriber numbers using a new classification. 940,000 that would have been included using the previous subscriber classification have been excluded.
News categories: Premiere AG, Austria, Digital TV, Germany, Results, Satellite, Subscribers