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DTT coverage 98% by year end

Antenna Hungaria has announced that 300,000 households use the free-to-air DTT platform, MinDig TV. This represents 35% of all terrestrial television Read More

Vodafone wins 800MHz spectrum for 4G/LTE

Vodafone Portugal has won a total of 123 MHz (2x49 MHz FDD 25 MHz TDD) spectrum in the 800 MHz (digital dividend), 900 MHz, 1800 MHz and 2600 MHz Read More

Analogue switch off completed

France switched off its last analogue transmitters in the Languedoc-Roussillon mainland areas and in overseas France French Guyana, Martinique, Read More

Four out of six commercial cities have DVB-T

In Nigeria, four out of the country's six commercial cities now have digital TV transmission, according to Abayomi Olaiya Bolarinwa, Nigeria's Read More

Ofcom views on DTT development

In a speech to the ECTA regulatory conference in Brussels (29th Nov 2011), Ofcom chief executive Ed Richards said that it would be possible to Read More

DVB Visits Latin America

In Bogota, Peter Siebert, the Executive Director of DVB project office and representatives of the European Commission, met with Diego Molano Vega, Read More

Iran to launch 8 DTT channels

The Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) is planning to launch eight digital television channels with various types of programmes. IRIB chief Read More

NZ Freeview hits 1m viewers

Freeview’s latest sales figures show that more than half a million of New Zealand‚s 1.6 million TV households are receiving Freeview free to air Read More

Makedonska Radiodifuzija invests EUR 6 million in DTT

Macedonian public broadcasting company Makedonska Radiodifuzija has announced that contracts for digital and microwave links, as well as for the Read More

STB subsidy reduced

Lithuanian govt cuts subsidies for DTT set-top boxes The Lithuanian Ministry of Finance has decided to reduce the funding available to subsidise Read More

Kenya to scrap tax on digital set-top boxes after EAC deal

Kenya has won approval from its East African Community (EAC) partners to remove taxes on set-top digital TV converter boxes, according to reports Read More

Oracle & Mediaset present DVB-GEM OTT at JavaOne Conference

At this year’s JavaOne conference in San Francisco Oracle and Mediaset held a joint session about DVB-GEM 1.3 in the Italian HBB deployment. The presentation covered the new GEM OTT target of... Read More