The Verwaltungsgericht Köln, a court in Cologne, has rejected a claim from cable operator Kabel BW to stop the planned auction of the digital dividend frequencies, which is set for April 12. The cabler is afraid the new mobile services will cause interference with cable tuners and high speed modems. Kabel BW claimed that using the [...]
Orange and Vodafone are seeking a reduction in the access fees charged by the Romanian incumbent telco Romtelecom to its infrastructure. This, reports ZF, would allow them to offer a wider portfolio of services including IPTV. Orange is already on record as having said that its plans to enter the satellite TV market in Romania were [...]
Poland’s 10 largest cable operators ended 2009 with a combined total of 770,900 digital TV subscribers, according to data produced by the Polish Chamber of Electronic Communications (PIKE) and published by Wirtualne Media. Although Vectra still accounted for the most (240,000), it was closely followed by UPC (229,400), while Multimedia Polska (106,000) was in third [...]
Pink SI has become the first broadcaster to sign up for carriage on what will be Slovenia’s second DTT multiplex. This follows an agreement reached between Pink SI, which is part of the Serbian Pink TV group, and Norkring International’s Norkring, the multiplex’s operator. The second multiplex (B) is due to make its debut on [...]
DVB World 2010 – Lisbon: Commercial requirements for the introduction of 3DTV are divided between the needs of pay-TV operators and free-to-air broadcasters. According to David Wood, the chair of the DVB’s commercial 3DTV module and deputy director of the EBU’s Technical Department, the main concern of the pay-TV group is to preserve the use of [...]
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