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Hiwire Las Vegas

US company Hiwire LLC is on track to begin pilot DVB-H broadcasts in Las Vegas on December 15th 2006 with a view to launching commercial services in Read More

Qtel promotes DVB-H service

Qtel has announced a free raffle draw through which six visitors to the 15th Asian Games venue will be picked to win the latest DVB-H enabled mobile Read More

The Netherlands becomes the first country to completely switch of analogue TV

On the night of 10-11 December 2006, the Netherlands switched off its analogue terrestrial television network. This makes it the first country in Read More

DVB-H in the Paris subway

A month after the first tests of DVB-H in the Paris subway, further tests were made between the Assemblee National and   Concorde stations and Read More

DVB-H trial in the greater Lisbon area

Commercial broadcaster TVI, has teamed with Vodafone Portugal to launch a trial DVB-H service in the greater Lisbon area. Portugal’s private TV Read More

Nokia supports DVB-H trial with Doordarshan

Nokia announced November 30th that it will be helping India’s national television broadcaster Doordashan to mount a DVB-H pilot in early 2007. Read More

CTU issues DTT deployment plan

Cesky Telekomunikacni Urad (CTU), the Czech communications regulator, has released its plans for DTT deployment in the Czech republic, so that the Read More

Government issues digital switchover roadmap

The government for the French-speaking community of Belgium has issued its roadmap for digital switchover. As part of the roadmap, the public Read More

The Hills are Alive with Digital

Karl Fischer, Technical Director of Austrian Broadcast Services gives an update on recent DTT progress in Austria, in the latest DVB Scene magazine. Read More

HD display owners expect HD on the DTT platform

The recent London trial of HD on the DTT platform has been an overwhelming success. The trial was made available to a closed sample group of 450 Read More

Pro DTT group gets new president

Jaime Castellanos, president of DTT channel Veo TV, has been appointed as the new president of Impulsa TDT, the Pro DTT Association formed by Spanish Read More

DTT Multiplex capacity to be auctioned

Italy’s Communications watchdog (AGCOM), has given the go ahead for new regulations that will allow 40% of the digital multiplex capacity of Read More