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DTV penetration reaches 84%

Figures in Ofcom’s latest Digital Television  review, up to the end of June 2007, gives the number of digital TV households, with digital Read More

BBC approves launch of HD channel

The BBC Trust has provisionally approved the launch of £21.5m a year, nine-hour high definition channel but has asked the corporation to hold fire Read More

TRAI releases consultation paper on Mobile Television

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) released a consultation document, about issues relating to mobile television, on September 18th Read More

DTT services extended to more parts of Bavaria

The regions of Schwaben and Altbayern join the digital switchover on the 27th November 2007, when Augsburg Welden, Hohenpeissenberg, Pfaffenhofen , Read More

DVB-H service before summer 2008

The French Ministry of Culture has announced that it will launch mobile TV, using DVB-H, before the beginning of the summer of 2008, in time for Read More

Analogue Switch Off on September 25th

The principality of Andorra will switch of all its analogue TV services on September 25th at 11.00. Already, three multiplexes are providing DTT Read More

Freesat testing by the DTG

The Digital TV Group (DTG) will provide test and conformance services for the free-to-air satellite platform, Freesat, scheduled to launch early in Read More

Ofcom to permit the use of DVB-T 8k mode

Ofcom have recently updated the UK’s “Reference Parameters for Digital Terrestrial Television Transmission” The updated now permits the use Read More

Mobile operators want DVB-H rules

Spanish mobile TV operators Telefónica's Movistar, France Telecom's Orange, Vodafone and Yoigo want to establish some conditions for the Read More

Jointly owned mobile TV platform okay !

Germany's cartel office has agreed that mobile phone operators T-Mobile, Vodafone and O2 can create a jointly owned and managed platform for Read More

DTT reaches Alsace with the latest licence issue

The broadcast regulator Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel (CSA) has issued the multiplex licenses for Phase 6A of the launch of DTT services. By Read More

Decision on DTT Standard Extended by two months

Following further lobbying by ATSC and a recent a trip to Japan, Pablo Belo, the Undersecretary of Telecommunications, has put off the decision on a Read More