Sweden Digital TV News

Continued growth for Com Hem in 2008
Feb 12, 2009 – Com Hem is continuing its strong growth in all three service areas. Digital TV is still strong: during the fourth quarter of 2008, the number of subscriptions increased by 4 percent to 468,000 subscriptions.
News categories: Com Hem, Cable TV, Results, Subscribers, Sweden

TeliaSonera January-December 2008
Feb 12, 2009 – TeliaSonera (Stockholm: TLSN) net sales increased 12.7 percent to SEK 28,096 million (24,921). The total number of TV subscriptions rose by 98,000 from year-end 2007 to 867,000, of which 477,000 were IPTV subscriptions, up 99,000.
News categories: TeliaSonera, Cable TV, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, IPTV, Lithuania, Norway, Results, Subscribers, Sweden

MTG (Viasat) Results for Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2008
Feb 12, 2009 – MTG (OMX Nordic: MTGA, MTGB) has announced its results for the fourth quarter 2008. The number of subscribers with ViasatPlus Personal Video Recorders increased from 103,000 at the end of the third quarter to 115,000 at the end of the fourth.
News categories: MTG, Denmark, DVR, Finland, IPTV, Norway, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, Sweden, Ukraine

Telenor (Canal Digital) Fourth quarter and preliminary results for 2008
Feb 11, 2009 – Canal Digital (Oslo:TEL) revenues increased primarily due to a higher number of cable TV subscribers and higher sales of additional services both to cable and DTH subscribers. The number of DTH subscribers decreased by 12,000 during the quarter.
News categories: Telenor, Cable TV, CAM, Conditional Access, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, Sweden, Terrestrial

Boxer subscriptions fall slightly due to tough competition in the mature Swedish digital TV market
Jan 14, 2009 – On 31 December 2008, Boxer had 689,000 digital TV subscriptions. The number of subscriptions fell by just under three percent during the year, from 709,000 at the beginning of the year.
News categories: Boxer, Denmark, Digital TV, Ireland, Subscribers, Sweden, Terrestrial

Opera selected by ZyXEL Communications for new line of set-top boxes
Jan 8, 2009 – Opera Software has announced that ZyXEL Communications has selected Opera Devices 9.5 to bring the full Internet to its new Linux-based set-top box (STB) series.
News categories: Opera Software, ZyXEL Communications, Denmark, Digital TV, Finland, Iceland, Middleware, Norway, Set Top Box, Streaming, Sweden

Planned EU tax could kill mobile TV
Dec 23, 2008 – European Commission plans to introduce a 14 percent tax on cellphones with TV receivers would kill the potentially lucrative market before it ever takes off, a senior official at DiBcom has said.
News categories: European Commission, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, EU, Europe, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Mobile, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Regulation, Romania, Semiconductor, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, UK

FTTH Council Issues First Official European Ranking Of FTTH Market Penetration
Dec 15, 2008 – The first official European Fibre"to"the"Home (FTTH) ranking shows smaller countries leading the way in FTTH connections. Mid-term projections show, however, that bigger economies are closing the gap.
News categories: FTTH Council, Broadband, Denmark, Estonia, Europe, Fibre, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Market Research, Netherlands, Norway, Slovenia, Subscribers, Sweden

Commission issues guidelines to get Mobile TV on Europeans' mobile phones
Dec 10, 2008 – The European Commission has published a set of guidelines for the authorisation of Mobile TV to accelerate roll-out of the service across Europe.
News categories: European Commission, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Digital TV, Estonia, EU, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Mobile, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Regulation, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, UK