Digital TV News: Telia

Telia adds 125,000 TV subscribers in 2024
Jan 30, 2025 – Telia Company (STO: TELIA) has reported results for the period January–December 2024. Across the Group, TV subscriptions were 3.555 million at year-end, up 81,000 in the quarter and up 125,000 YoY.
News categories: Telia Company, Cable TV, Digital TV, Estonia, Finland, IPTV, Lithuania, Norway, Results, Streaming, Subscribers, Sweden

Telia Finland transfers cable network operation and development to Teleste
Nov 27, 2024 – Teleste and Telia Finland have signed an agreement transferring the operation and development responsibilities for broadband and TV services in Telia Finland's cable network to Teleste.
News categories: Teleste, Telia Finland, Hanno Narjus, Hanna Grönberg, Broadband, Cable TV, Digital TV, Finland

OTT technology company, Backscreen, launched
Apr 24, 2024 – OTT technology vendor, Backscreen, has announced its launch. The new company, carved out of Tet, offers an OTT service platform with applications, assisted by video processing services.
News categories: Backscreen, Norberts Ositis, Jan Frelek, Krists Avots, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Europe, Streaming, UX

Telia cuts cloud costs for DVR services with Synamedia
Mar 14, 2024 – Telia Norway is deploying optimisation technology from Synamedia to cut the cost of using cloud for its Time-Shift TV (TSTV) and cloud digital video recorder cDVR solution by up to 95%.
News categories: Synamedia, Telia, Elke Hungenaert, Stein Ivar Nilsen, Content Distribution, Digital TV, DVR, IPTV, Norway

SVOD growth returns to Sweden driven by pay TV bundling
Apr 25, 2023 – According to Mediavision, after a slowdown last year SVOD growth returned in Sweden in the first quarter of 2023, primarily explained by the fact that subscriptions are bundled with pay TV.
News categories: Mediavision, Marie Nilsson, Digital TV, Market Research, Streaming, Sweden

Telia to replace IPTV CAS with castLabs Widevine managed service
Feb 22, 2023 – castLabs has announced that long-standing customer Telia will replace the traditional conditional access system (CAS) on its IPTV network with castLabs' Widevine CAS managed service.
News categories: castLabs, Telia, Widevine, Stein Ivar Nilsen, Conditional Access, Digital TV, IPTV, Norway

Redge Media CDN joins EPIX traffic exchange
Nov 16, 2022 – Redge Media CDN has joined the EPIX traffic exchange node belonging to the MiŚOT Group. Thanks to the cooperation, EPIX participants and their clients have direct access to content distributed by Redge Media CDN.
News categories: Redge Media, EPIX, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Poland, Streaming

SkyShowtime rollout to begin in the Nordics on September 20th
Sep 5, 2022 – SkyShowtime will launch in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden on September 20th, before expanding into the Netherlands in Q4. The rollout will continue across Spain, Portugal, Andorra, and Central & Eastern Europe over the following months.
News categories: SkyShowtime, Monty Sarhan, Denmark, Digital TV, Finland, Norway, Sweden

Telia Company agrees to sell Telia Latvia to Tet
Jan 4, 2022 – Telia Company has agreed to sell Telia Latvija to Tet SIA at a price corresponding to an enterprise value of €10.75 million on a cash and debt free basis. The transaction is expected to close during the second quarter of 2022.
News categories: Telia Company, Tet, Andreas Ekström, Uldis Tatarcuks, Latvia, MandA