Sweden Digital TV News

TeliaSonera adds 13,000 IPTV subscribers in 1Q10
Apr 20, 2010 – TeliaSonera (Stockholm: TLSN) has released its report for the period January-March 2010. The total number of TV subscriptions rose by 135,000 from the first quarter of 2009 to 823,000, of which 633,000 were IPTV subscriptions.
News categories: TeliaSonera, Cable TV, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, IPTV, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Results, Subscribers, Sweden

Viasat Nordic DTH down 15,000 in 1Q10
Apr 20, 2010 – MTG (OMX: MTGA, MTGB) has announced results for the quarter ended 31 March 2010. For the period, Viasat added 3,000 net premium IPTV and satellite (DTH) subscribers in the Nordic region, and 8,000 net DTH subscribers in the Baltics and Ukraine.
News categories: MTG, Baltics, Denmark, DVR, Estonia, Finland, IPTV, Norway, Results, Russia, Satellite, Subscribers, Sweden, Ukraine

FTTH growth accelerates in Europe
Feb 24, 2010 – In 2009, growth in terms of subscribers and Homes/Buildings passed has accelerated in Europe. In EU36 (including Russia), there were nearly 3.5 million FTTH/B subscribers and more than 25 million Homes/Buildings Passed.
News categories: IDATE, FTTH Council, Broadband, Denmark, Digital TV, Europe, Fibre, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, IPTV, Italy, Lithuania, Market Research, Middle-East, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Streaming, Subscribers, Sweden

Com Hem adds 31k digital TV subscribers in 4Q09
Feb 17, 2010 – Com Hem has reported results for 2009. During the fourth quarter of 2009, the number of digital television subscriptions increased by 31,100 (6 percent) to 575,800 subscriptions.
News categories: Com Hem, Cable TV, Results, Subscribers, Sweden

Viasat adds 30,000 premium pay-TV subscribers in 4Q09
Feb 11, 2010 – MTG (OMX: MTGA, MTGB) has announced results for the period ended 31 December 2009. For the quarter, Viasat added 21,000 net premium IPTV and satellite (DTH) subscribers in the Nordic region, and 9,000 net DTH subscribers in the Baltics and Ukraine.
News categories: MTG, Baltics, Denmark, DVR, Estonia, Finland, IPTV, Norway, Results, Russia, Satellite, Subscribers, Sweden, Ukraine

TeliaSonera adds 59k IPTV subscribers in 4Q09
Feb 11, 2010 – TeliaSonera (Stockholm: TLSN) has released its report for the period January-December 2009. The total number of TV subscriptions rose by 141,000 from the end of 2008 to 798,000, of which 620,000 were IPTV subscriptions.
News categories: TeliaSonera, Cable TV, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, IPTV, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Results, Subscribers, Sweden

Canal Digital DTH loses 11,000 subscribers in 4Q09
Feb 10, 2010 – Telenor (Oslo:TEL) has released results for the fourth quarter of 2009. The number of DTH subscribers decreased by 11,000, and the number of cable TV subscriptions decreased by 3,000 during the quarter.
News categories: Telenor, Cable TV, Denmark, Norway, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, Sweden

Sweden consults on terrestrial HDTV and DVB-T2
Jan 29, 2010 – The Swedish Radio and TV Authority (RTVV) has published a draft strategy for the development of broadcasting on its terrestrial network, proposing the introduction of HDTV and DVB-T2 and the continued migration to MPEG-4 compression.
News categories: RTVV, Digital TV, DVB-T2, Regulation, Sweden, Terrestrial

Growth of the number of television channels and multi-channel platforms in Europe continues despite the crisis
Jan 13, 2010 – The information in the MAVISE database shows that despite the economic crisis in 2009, the number of channels and the number of television platforms continues to grow in Europe (EU 27 + two candidate countries, Croatia and Turkey).
News categories: MAVISE, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cable TV, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Digital TV, Estonia, EU, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, IPTV, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Market Research, Mobile, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Satellite, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Terrestrial, Turkey, UK