Industry body the Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) has applauded a call by regional political leaders for Governments to “effectively address” the issue of satellite and cable TV signal theft. “The new priority given by the APEC ministers to this problem is great news,” said Marcel Fenez, the Chairman of CASBAA. “With […]
From David Del Valle in Madrid The sales of DTT boxes and integrated DTT TV sets are accelerating in Spain. More than 371,000 DTT devices were sold in July, of which more than 170,000 were integrated DTT TV sets, representing 45.8 per cent of the total. Currently, 19.4 per cent of Spanish homes are already […]
A dispute has broken out between UK television networks and their and Ofcom over the public service remit of channels such as ITV1 and Channel 4. Ed Richards, chief executive of the media and communications regulator, signalled renewed pressure to finalise the remit of channels such as ITV1 and Channel 4, saying that the public […]
Digital UK is launching a national information campaign on September 19 to promote the digital TV switchover, which starts in Whitehaven, Cumbria on October 17, before rolling out across the entire country region-by-region over the next few years, finishing in 2012. The £8m (E11.4m) campaign is the latest phase of Digital UK's national information programme. […]
Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile, Vodafone and O2 have agreed to meet German regulatory conditions to win approval for their venture to broadcast television on mobile phones. The conditions will ensure that competition isn’t hampered. The approval will become final in October provided that it isn’t challenged before then. The companies agreed not to bundle services and […]
Pace Microtechnology put out a Market Update saying “Pace is continuing to perform well and the Board now expects that the outcome for the shortened 2007 year will be significantly ahead of its existing expectations. This primarily results from ongoing action to improve business efficiencies, which is delivering results ahead of our expectations across the […]
UTStarcom has made a contract to supply its RollingStream end-to-end IPTV solution to Bharti Airtel, one of India’s leading integrated telecommunications service providers with more than 46 million customers. UTStarcom’s RollingStream solution will enable Bharti Airtel to offer a new service to its customers consisting of live broadcast television, time-shifted TV and video-on-demand (VoD) bundled […]
Telia's digital TV service has registered its 200,000th customer – with the total number of customers having doubled since May 2007.
Aussie network Seven will be required to pay legal costs of $23.5 million to a number of News Ltd companies, following the failure of the broadcaster’s long running C7 pay television litigation. Seven had launched a marathon campaign to prove News, PBL and Telstra conspired almost seven years ago to kill off its C7 pay-television […]
South Korean mobile operator SK Telecom and T-Systems have entered into a preliminary agreement on mobile broadcasting. The companies plan to jointly enter the mobile broadcasting market in Europe and Asia, using a variety of mobile TV technologies. The size of the deal was not disclosed.