Sri Lanka Digital TV News

Sri Lanka allocates money for DVB-T transition
Aug 28, 2009 – Plans are being made by Sri Lanka's Mass Media and Information Ministry to introduce DTT in the country next year. Money has been allocated to both the Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corp. (SLRC) and Independent Television Network (ITN) in the 2010 budget.
News categories: Mass Media and Information Ministry, Rupavahini, Independent Television Network, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Sri Lanka, Terrestrial

Sri Lanka's Dialog TV up 68% Y-o-Y in 1Q09 to 130k subscribers
May 15, 2009 – Dialog Telekom (Colombo:DIAL) has announced results for the 1st Quarter of 2009. Dialog TV satellite pay TV subscribers increased by 68% year-on-year to over 130 thousand.
News categories: Dialog Telekom, Results, Satellite, Sri Lanka, Subscribers

Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) launches IPTV
Sep 22, 2008 – Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) (Colombo:SLTL) has launched IPTV in Sri Lanka, operated by a recently created subsidiary SLT VisionCom. Visioncom has a target of reaching 7,000 customers by the end of the year and 100,000 customers in three years.
News categories: Sri Lanka Telecom, SLT Visioncom, PEO TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka Telecom group offers Mobile TV
Aug 10, 2008 – With the issuing of a mobile television license to Mobitel, the mobile telephony arm of Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) (Colombo: SLTL), the SLT Group is now offering Mobile TV as well as other emerging media such as broadband and IPTV.
News categories: Mobitel, Ministry of Mass Media and Information, Digital TV, Mobile, Sri Lanka

UTStarcom Selected by Sri Lanka Telecom to Launch IPTV Services on the South Asian Island
Jun 17, 2008 – UTStarcom (Nasdaq: UTSI) has announced a multi-million dollar contract with Just In Time Holdings to supply its industry-leading RollingStream® end-to-end Internet Protocol TV (IPTV) solution to Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT).
News categories: UTStarcom, Sri Lanka Telecom, Just In Time Holdings Pvt Ltd., Content Distribution, Digital TV, IPTV, Set Top Box, Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka - Dialog TV Commences Pilot DVB-T/H Broadcast
Jan 23, 2008 – Sri Lanka's first Terrestrial Digital Television Broadcast went on air, on the 23rd January, with the commencement of Dialog Television's Pilot Launch of DVB-T based Terrestrial Digital Television covering the City of Colombo.
News categories: Dialog Telekom, Digital TV, Mobile, Sri Lanka, Terrestrial

Ku-band Supply Crisis in South Asia: Myth or Reality?
Nov 27, 2007 – Direct-to-Home (DTH) services are the red hot topic in the South Asian commercial transponder market. Many within the industry are even raising the question if there simply is enough Ku-band transponder supply available and planned for the coming years to meet the rapid increase in Ku-band capacity demand in the region.
News categories: Northern Sky Research, Bangladesh, Digital TV, India, Market Research, Pakistan, Satellite, Sri Lanka, TV Services

Sri Lanka - Dialog Satellite TV Launched
Feb 24, 2007 – Asset Media, a subsidiary of Sri Lanka's flagship telecommunications company Dialog Telekom Ltd, today launched Dialog Satellite TV - a premier satellite television service set to revolutionize Direct to Home Television in Sri Lanka.
News categories: Digital TV, Satellite, Sri Lanka