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Sweden: DVB-T2 Live!

Yesterday, HDTV services were launched in Sweden over Teracom's DVB-T2 network. The services carry two free-to-air HD channels (Sweden's main channels SVT1 and SVT2) and a pay- TV service through Boxer. At launch the network covers about 70% of Swedish households and is expected to grow to 90% within one year. Read More

ASO completed in Southwest Highlands and Islands

The Southwest Highlands and Islands region in Scotland made the switch from analogue to digital services on the 27th October, when the Torosay Read More

Telemadrid launches DTT HD service

Telemadrid, the Spanish regional broadcaster, has started an HD broadcast service on the DTT platform. It began testing the technology in February Read More

Romania working on new digital strategy

Romania’s Ministry of Communications and Information Society (MCIS) is likely to formulate a strategy for the transition to digital broadcasting Read More

KPN TV subscribers continue to grow

The Dutch telecom operator KPN said the total number of its TV customers, IPTV and Digitenne DTT, continued to grow by 23% year-on-year to more Read More

Ireland starts trial DTT service

Communications Minister Eamon Ryan announced on Friday the 29th October that the RTE Digital Terrestrial Television service had launched and was Read More

iPad and iPhone DTT hotspot

The German firm Equinux has announced the introduction of tizi, which it calls “Europe’s first mobile TV Hotspot for iPad and iPhone”. The Read More

Bosnia prepares for DTT

The transition to digital broadcasting is about to get under way in Bosnia & Herzegovina (B and H) reports Broadband TV News. Although there is Read More

Vidiom Systems launches new GEM-IPTV solution

Vidiom Systems has recently unveiled a turnkey, open-standard solution that can expedite migration to IP video for cable system operators at the SCTE Cable-Tec Expo. Vidiomâs Open System... Read More

ASO date may be sooner than later

According to ZF, Catalin Marinescu, the president of the regulatory body ANCOM, has proposed bringing the ASO date forward from 2015 by two years Read More

Portuguese invest in HDTV

Commercial broadcaster SIC has announced that it will invest up to €12 million in preparing for HD broadcasting. SIC’s Director General Luis Read More

Digital subscribers rise for TEO LT

TEO LT the Lithuanian telco ended Q3 2010 with 121,600 subscribers to its GALA-branded IPTV and DTT services, up more than 33% on the same time Read More