Sweden Digital TV News

Com Hem has 410,000 digital TV subscribers
May 5, 2008 – During the period January-March 2008 Com Hem increased its number of digital-TV subscribers by 16,000 to 410,000.
News categories: Com Hem, Broadband, Digital TV, IPTV, Results, Subscribers, Sweden

Telenor First quarter 2008: Continued growth and stable margin
Apr 30, 2008 – Revenues in the Canal Digital Group increased primarily due to higher revenues from sales of additional services to subscribers, including hardware sales.
News categories: Telenor, Cable TV, Conditional Access, Denmark, Digital TV, Norway, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, Sweden, Terrestrial

TeliaSonera January-March 2008
Apr 25, 2008 – TeliaSonera's total number of TV subscriptions rose to 797,000, of which more than 400,000 were IPTV subscriptions.
News categories: TeliaSonera, Broadband, Denmark, Digital TV, Estonia, Finland, IPTV, Lithuania, Mobile, Norway, Results, Subscribers, Sweden

European cable industry sees rapid growth in digital TV, telephony and broadband internet
Apr 23, 2008 – Details of 2007 industry revenues and customer volumes were announced at the annual Cable Congress. The number of Digital cable TV customers has more than doubled in the past two years to 13.9m (+40% in 2007 compared to 9.9m in 2006).
News categories: Cable Europe, Austria, Belgium, Broadband, Bulgaria, Cable TV, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Digital TV, DOCSIS, Estonia, Europe, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Market Research, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Subscribers, Sweden, UK

MTG Q1 2008 Results for Period Ending 31 March 2008
Apr 22, 2008 – Modern Times Group (MTG) (The OMX Nordic Exchange Large Cap market: MTGA, MTGB) has announced its financial results for the three months ended 31 March 2008.
News categories: MTG, Denmark, Digital TV, Finland, Norway, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, Sweden, Ukraine

No increase in subscribers for Sweden's Boxer in the first quarter
Apr 9, 2008 – At the end of March, Boxer had 709,000 digital TV subscribers, the same number as at the end of December 2007.
News categories: Boxer, Digital TV, Subscribers, Sweden, Terrestrial

Launch of MAVISE - a new database on television channels and television companies in the European Union
Apr 1, 2008 – On 9 April 2008, the European Commission and the European Audiovisual Observatory will launch a new TV database set up to provide basic data on all the television channels accessible in the EU and the two candidate countries (Croatia and Turkey).
News categories: European Commission, European Audiovisual Observatory, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cable TV, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Digital TV, Estonia, Europe, 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

Sweden - Boxer prepares shift to MPEG-4 for terrestrial
Mar 27, 2008 – As from 1 April, Boxer is ceasing to accept new MPEG2 receivers for testing and approval. The signal to the home-electronics industry is clear. MPEG4 is now the technology for the Swedish DTT network.
News categories: Boxer, Digital TV, Set Top Box, Sweden, Terrestrial

Mobile TV across Europe: Commission endorses addition of DVB-H to EU List of Official Standards
Mar 17, 2008 – The European Commission has decided to add the Digital Video Broadcasting Handheld standard (DVB-H) to the EU List of Standards, which serves as a basis for encouraging the harmonised provision of telecommunications across the EU.
News categories: European Commission, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Digital TV, Estonia, Europe, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Mobile, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Regulation, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, UK