Sri Lanka Digital TV News

IN Media Announces Major Order for Set Top Boxes
Sep 22, 2010 – IN Media Corp (OTC Bulletin Board: IMDC) has announced that it has received a multimillion dollar order for its fully integrated IPTV set top box !ROFL.
News categories: IN Media Corp, India, Set Top Box, Sri Lanka, Streaming

Dialog Telekom ends 2009 with 149,000 DTV subscribers
Feb 12, 2010 – Dialog Telekom (Colombo:DIAL) has announced results for the quarter ended 31st December 2009 and full year 2009. DTV recorded a year-end subscriber base of 149,449, representing a 6% growth relative to Q3 2009 and a 22% growth YoY.
News categories: Dialog Telekom, Results, Satellite, Sri Lanka, Subscribers

Net Insight receives DTT network order from Dialog Telekom
Jan 19, 2010 – Net Insight has received an order from Dialog Telekom for a Digital Terrestrial TV network in Sri Lanka. Dialog Telekom will implement a first phase of Net Insight's Nimbra platform in a distribution network from headend to four transmitter sites.
News categories: Dialog Telekom, Net Insight, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Sri Lanka, Terrestrial

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