Switzerland Digital TV News

Wilmaa Box is coming to living rooms in Switzerland
Apr 4, 2014 – Wilmaa has announced the availability of its internet TV service in Switzerland. With its provider-independent Wilmaa Box, Wilmaa has a lineup of more than 200 channels, over 40 of them in HD. The Wilmaa Box is specifically designed for timeshift TV viewing.
News categories: Wilmaa, Digital TV, Set Top Box, Streaming, Switzerland

Opera TV Store for Swisscom set-top boxes
Apr 3, 2014 – Opera Software and Swisscom have announced that the Opera TV Store application platform is set to land on Swisscom set-top boxes. It is the first European pay-TV operator to bring the Opera TV Store on board.
News categories: Opera Software, Swisscom, Dirk Wierzbitzki, Aneesh Rajaram, Digital TV, IPTV, Middleware, Set Top Box, Switzerland

Cloud-based Swisscom TV 2.0 launches
Apr 3, 2014 – Swisscom TV 2.0 offers seven-day replay on over 250 channels. The new recording function also gives viewers greater freedom: thanks to a cloud-based solution, customers can now record any number of programmes in parallel.
News categories: Swisscom, Urs Schaeppi, Apps, Content Distribution, Digital TV, IPTV, Switzerland, TV Everywhere

Switzerland's Sunrise adds 36,000 TV subscribers in 2013
Mar 20, 2014 – Sunrise Communications has released its results for the twelve-month period ended December 31, 2013. At the end of December 2013, more than 74,300 customers used Sunrise TV, a near doubling of subscribers.
News categories: Sunrise Communications, IPTV, Results, Subscribers, Switzerland

Cable TV subscribers in Switzerland drop 57,600 in 2013
Mar 4, 2014 – According to figures from Swisscable, the sectoral association for cable TV companies in Switzerland, the number of cable TV subscribers in the country at the end of 2013 was 2.69 million, down 58 thousand or 2.1% over the year.
News categories: Swisscable, Cable TV, Subscribers, Switzerland

One million TV customers for Swisscom
Feb 6, 2014 – Swisscom has released its results report for 2013. The number of Swisscom TV connections increased year-on-year by 209,000 or 26.4% to 1 million, of which 939,000 subscribed to the basic packages.
News categories: Swisscom, IPTV, Results, Subscribers, Switzerland

SoftAtHome software powers Swisscom 1Gbps home gateway
Jan 7, 2014 – SoftAtHome has announced that its software is powering the ultra-fast 1Gbps Home Gateway for Swisscom. The Internet-Box is available to Swisscom customers for browsing at speeds up to 1 Gbps over the operator’s fibre-optic network.
News categories: SoftAtHome, Swisscom, Andreas Martschitsch, Michel Degland, CES2025, Digital TV, Gateway, Middleware, Smart Home, Switzerland

One million customers for Swisscom TV
Jan 6, 2014 – The number of customers watching Swisscom TV has surpassed the one million mark, thanks to record growth of over 200,000 new customers in the last twelve months.
News categories: Swisscom, Marc Werner, Digital TV, IPTV, Subscribers, Switzerland

Switzerland's upc cablecom now offering replay function
Nov 18, 2013 – upc cablecom has announced that customers can watch programmes they have missed with up to 30 hours’ delay. Thanks to upc cablecom’s new replay function, all programmes can be paused, watched in slow motion, fast forwarded and rewound.
News categories: upc cablecom, Cable TV, Switzerland