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Impulsa TDT announces 15 million DTT receivers sold

According to the latest figures published by Impulsa TDT, 14.2 million DTT receivers had been sold by the end of November 2008 and it estimated Read More

SIDSA and Secuenzia plan Pay TV service

Spanish technology companies SIDSA and Secuenzia have entered into an alliance to launch Pay TV during 2009, if possible. The two companies have Read More

DTT services to launch in 2010

The head of the National Communications Authority (ANC) has announced plans to invite candidates to tender for DTT licenses in time for a DTT Read More

DTT services to launch in April

Portugal Telecom (PT) has announced plans for a national DTT pilot in 8 to 12 locations throughout the country including Madeira and the Azores, Read More

Two candidates apply for DVB-H licence

As well as the expected bid from a consortium of the four major mobile operators in Poland another bid was also submitted by Info TV-FM a broadcast Read More

DTT launch set for September

According to Witold Kolodziejski, head of the broadcast regulator KRRiT, the first DTT multiplex will launch in September 2009, reports Broadband Read More

Set Top Boxes must be HD compatible

All set top boxes for the new DTT service in Israel will use MPEG-4 AVC and must be HD compatible, although initially services will only be in SD. Read More

Ch 44 to Broadcast DTT

Bahrain issued a tender document (Ref 7/2008) at the end of December for the supply, installation and commissioning of new DVB-T digital equipment Read More

Amendments made to the Broadcasting Law

Amendments to the RA Law “On Television and Radio” were adopted, on December 26, 2008, at an extraordinary session of the RA National Assembly. Read More

Obama Asks Congress to Delay DTV Transition

President-elect Barack Obama has asked Congress to extend the Feb. 17 DTV transition date. Citing problems with the DTV-to-analogue converter box Read More

DVB-SH demonstrated by ICO and Alcatel Lucent at CES2009

ICO Global Communications and Alcatel Lucent have been demonstrating the delivery of Video and Interactive services to mobile terminals using a Read More

Freesat doubles numbers

The UK free-to-air satellite platform Freesat doubled sales in the last quarter of 2008, securing 200,000 homes since in the eight months since its Read More