Technosat and Conax have entered into a partnership that will see content protection from Conax secure the new Technosat Satellite HD platform and provide secure HD content to exclusive markets in the Middle East and North Africa. Additionally, Technosat has entered an agent agreement exclusive for ten years with Conax for delivering secure HD set-top-boxes […]
Eutelsat Communications has signed a major contract with Upstar Comunicações for satellite capacity for the broadcasting of Zap pay-TV platform, expected to launch shortly in Angola. Upstar Comunicações is a joint venture between Zon Multimedia, one of the leading Portuguese media groups ,and the Angolan group SOCIP. The five-year contract covers the lease of five […]
Lantiq, a specialist in next-generation access and home networking technologies, and T-Venture have announced the closing of a strategic investment. T- Venture, the venture capital company of Deutsche Telekom, is supporting Lantiq with a capital investment and will provide future strategic advice to the company.
Irdeto has implemented its robust customer care and billing solution for long term customer Telenor Group in Denmark for Pay TV. The solution will also be rolled out in Sweden, Norway and Finland in the next months to provide Telenor with a flexible solution that enables the effective management of multi-play services, streamlined workflows, improved […]
France's seven main legacy broadcasters – TF1, France 2, France 3, Canal +, France 5, Arte and M6 – have agreed to a simultaneous switching off of the analogue signal currently carried by Eutelsat's Atlantic Bird 3. The move will coincide with the digital switchover of the last region in metropolitan France – Languedoc-Roussillon – […]
EchoStar Satellite Services and Satelites Mexicanos have confirmed EchoStar will acquire an ownership interest in Satmex. Satmex is Mexico’s leading satellite operator and delivers video, audio and data services to the Americas. MVS Comunicaciones, one of the largest media and telecommunications companies in Mexico and EchoStar’s partner in the Mexican direct-to-home TV service Dish Mexico, […]
Hong Kong's Office of the Telecommunications Authority (OFTA) has published an invitation for applications to bid for radio spectrum in the 678MHz-686MHz band to be used for broadcasting mobile TV, in an auction to be conducted in May 2010. A spokesperson at the regulator announced: 'At present, 2.5G and 3G mobile operators are deploying streaming-type […]
With its 3D-ready satellites and teleports serving as the distribution backbone, SES World Skies, a division of SES, has announced it plans to join leading broadcasters, programmers, TV makers and technology providers in a series of extensive tests aimed at accelerating the delivery of 3D TV. Planned for this spring, the trials are expected to […]
Europe’s largest entertainment group Vivendi posted better-than-expected sales and operating profit for 2009, boosted by a buoyant performance at its games and telecoms divisions. But the owner of Universal Music Group, the world’s biggest record company that competes with EMI and Sony, said net profit was hit by a surprise provision for possible damages in […]
Online movie sales growth has slowed sharply in 2009. Screen Digest had forecast $360 milliom worth building on $219 million in 2008, but sales fell short at $291 million. The researcher doesn't believe it was recession but that demand just dropped off, not least because of the myriad of services with downloads that won't work […]