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Candidate invited to bid for DTT licence

The Post and Electronic Communications Agency has invited candidates to tender for a DTT licence. The licence will provide the right to operate two Read More

MHP services in Austria upgraded

A story published last Friday by Broadband TV News indicates that the Austrian public broadcaster ORF has completed an upgrade of its MHP based Multi-text service: “The Austrian public... Read More

Analogue switch off delay expected

The US Senate has approved a four-month delay in the national terrestrial analogue switch off date moving it to the 12th June 2009. The House of Read More

Freeview+ increases growth

A sales push for the Freeview+ PVR service has been announced as one of the reasons for a 118% growth of Freeview over the past year. At the end Read More

MHP help service available on DTT

A new domestic help service has been made available using MHP interactive technology through the DTT service in Spain. The service allows viewer Read More

Funding allocated for Digital Switch Over

The Ministry of Industry and Commerce has said that it will allocate €75 million to digital switchover as part of its Plan Avanza2, reports Rapid Read More

DTT coverage targets limited by finance

The broadcast network operator Sentech has announced that it is increasingly unlikely that it will meet its DTT coverage targets of 52% of the Read More

Launch costs for DTT announced

Liviu Nistoran, the president of the country’s National Communications Authority (ANC) has said that the cost of launching DTT services in Read More

Freeview NZ sales reach 198,938 units

A total of 198,938 STB’s have been sold for both the Freeview satellite and Freeview terrestrial digital services since its launch, resulting in Read More

DTT subscriber homes reach 735,000

Digitenne the Dutch Pay TV company of KPN announced that it has 735,000 subscribers, in its 2008 results report, an increase of 45% since 2007. Read More

DTT licence awarded to Lattelecom

Latvian telco Lattelecom has been awarded the licence to run the country’s future DTT platform. Latvia’s early plans to launch DTT services Read More

Slimmed down DVB-H proposed by TDF

The French transmitter company TDF has proposed a slimmed down version of the proposed DVB-H mobile TV service. At the moment, broadcasters and Read More