SES, one of the world’s largest commercial satellite operators, suffered a decline in earnings in the first quarter after last year’s switch-off of analogue transmissions to Germany. However the company retained its full-year outlook SES, which sells transmission capacity to the likes of BSkyB and India’s Dish TV, said core profit (EBITDA) dropped 4.8 per cent to €321.2 million. SES [...]
Rapid conversion means that the number of digital homes in Eastern Europe will nearly double between 2012 and 2018, bringing the total to 121 million, according to a report from Digital TV Research. The Digital TV Eastern Europe report estimates that 13 million digital TV homes will be added in 2013 alone. Digital TV penetration crossed the halfway mark of [...]
In view of the upcoming start of the digital switchover process in the Republic of Macedonia, set for June 1st, local telecommunications operator One has started sales of DTT boxes, which can be purchased for MKD 990 (€16). One was selected on a tender as the network operator of two national multiplexes. Those equipped with the Sagem digital box will [...]
Brazil has admitted that its planned digital switchover will have to be delayed by about two years. The original plan was to have the last regions of the vast country switch to digital during March 2016. Brazil’s Ministry of Communications now says that technical difficulties mean that some major cities will have to wait. The list includes Rio de Janeiro, [...]
A report from Singapore’s Media Partners Asia (MPA) states that India’s seven giant DTH operators will benefit from the nation’s switch from analogue to digital TV. MPA’s report suggests that revenues for DTH operators can be expected to treble to over $5 billion by 2020 as the terrestrial cable TV digitisation schemes would help the DTH players expand their own [...]
Analogue TV signals were switched off this past weekend in 5 Indian states (Maharashtra, Punjab, Rajasthan, West Bengal, Haryana and the Union Territory of Chandigarh) according to data from India’s Information & Broadcasting Ministry (I&B). The Ministry says that more than 85 per cent of its digitisation targets had been met… From 38 target cities, 15 of them have achieved [...]
Digital support service at800 will be conducting tests to gauge how the introduction of 4G services might disrupt Freeview reception. Around 170,000 households in south London will participate in the test. The households involved have been contacted directly and are asked to report any problems with television reception from 15 April. The test has been set up by Digital Mobile [...]
Last Saturday at midnight (March 30) ought to have seen a large cluster of major Indian cities switch off their analogue TV signals. 36 towns and cities were affected. Unfortunately, not all went to plan. India’s Information & Broadcasting Ministry admits that the conversion to digital TV is – at best – complete only in 70 percent of homes. One [...]
India´s ministry of Information and Broadcasting (I&B) says that 5.9 million analogue TV homes are yet to install STBs in 38 cities covered under Phase II of its digitisation process. Digitisation in these cities as of March 20th has reached 65 per cent of homes out of which 26.24 per cent of homes are covered by DTH satellite transmission. The [...]
There’s been considerable progress in rolling out digital terrestrial TV in Venezuela with 13 digital terrestrial relay stations installed and signals available to just over half of the population. But Venezuela’s vice president Jorge Arreaza says it is going to take some time to complete the country’s conversion to all-digital reception. He expresses only as an ambition a switch off [...]
