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Info-TV-FM wins DVB-H licence in Poland

The Polish regulator UKE has awarded the DVB-H mobile TV licence to the Polish transmission company Info-TV-FM, reports Telecompaper. Under the Read More

More Power for DTT transmission trial

TP Emitel started enhanced DTT trials in Kraków and the surrounding area on the 6th March 2009, according to Broadband TV News. The enhancement is Read More

Government responds to DTT help request

Malaysia’s government may subsidise some of the cost of the countries digital transition according to a report on web based Rapid TV News. It Read More

DTT services to launch in 2009

Algeria expects to launch DTT services by the end of 2009, according to presentations on the digital transition at a recent seminar on the subject in Read More

DVB World 2009 opens in Berlin

DVB World 2009 opens in Berlin this week. The annual conference of the DVB Project brings together more than 200 delegates from around the world for three days of presentations and discussions covering the latest developments in digital broadcasting. The event runs from Monday until Wednesday at the Berliner Congress Center on Alexanderplatz. Read More

Is tru2way about to take off?

The “In My Opinion” article in the current edition of DVB-SCENE magazine comes from So Vang, the VP of OpenCable Software, Advanced Platforms and Services for CableLabs. In the article he... Read More

4.3 million households waiting for DTV coupons

Multichannel news quotes the National Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA), as saying that its DTV coupon programme still does not Read More

DTV transition goes smoothly

An item from Broadcast Engineering reports that the DTV transition is going smoothly despite legislation to delay the official analogue switch off Read More

Invitation to Tender withdrawn

The communications regulator ICASA has withdrawn its invitation to tender for DVB-H licences. The original tender proposal was for two DVB-H Read More

New DVB-T DTT service planned for Manila

A new digital terrestrial television service provider in the Philippines, All Asia Broadcast Systems Inc, plans to spend nearly Php100 million Read More

37% DTT penetration

According to figures published by DGTVi, 7.8 million television households relied on the DTT platform for their primary television services at the Read More

Commercial DTT transition hit by economic downturn

Despite the Competition Authority rubber-stamping plans for a €165m investment in Irelands commercial DTT market, an article on 'independent.ie' Read More