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Patent management company Sisvel has announced the establishment of a joint licensing program for patents essential to the implementation of DVB-H. A summary of proposed royalty rates indicates a sliding scale from EUR 0.70 down to EUR 0.20, on a per-unit basis, with a further percentage reduction offered in each of the next four years to encourage early adoption. Companies participating in the discussions include France Telecom, LG Electronics, Nokia, Samsung Electronics, TB Invent and TDF. Read More
Freeview today confirmed that sales for 2007 hit an all-time high with 9.7 million Freeview branded products sold, up 64% year-on-year. The Gfk Read More
Ofcom has confirmed that it plans to auction radio spectrum suitable for a range of services, including mobile television and satellite radio. A Read More
The latest report from the Spanish TV association, Impulsatdt says that 29.2% of the 15 million TV households in Spain already have access to DTT Read More
The Norwegian Posts and Telecommunications Authority has asked the company operating the Norwegian DTT platform, NTV, to reconsider its plan to put Read More
Freeview HD, New Zealand’s DTT platform, will launch on April 2, with projections of 50,000 homes by June 2009. HD DTT receivers will be Read More
MBC-Mauritius today (12th March) launched two digital channels to speed up customer uptake of digital TV sets and set-top boxes (STBs) as the Read More
Hungary’s National Communications Authority (NHH) is to issue tenders for digital TV and radio broadcasting before the end of this month. One Read More
SES-Astra say the total number of DTH homes in Germany has now reached 9.75 million. In total, Germany had 36.98 million analogue and digital TV Read More
Research by GfK shows that since the introduction of DTT in November 2002, some 7.8 million sets have been sold in Germany. Three million were Read More
Nine Network launched its high-definition service, Nine-HD, on the 17th March 2008. The new service will provide a simulcast of the existing Nine Read More
