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Poland’s Public Procurement Office (UZP) is understood to be investigating whether the former TVP president Piotr Farfal acted within the law in extending an agreement with SES Astra until 2014. Gazeta Prawna says that it has received information that UZP is looking into the agreement, signed in September 2009 just prior to the launch of [...]

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The Verwaltungsgericht Köln, a court in Cologne, has rejected a claim from cable operator Kabel BW to stop the planned auction of the digital dividend frequencies, which is set for April 12. The cabler is afraid the new mobile services will cause interference with cable tuners and high speed modems. Kabel BW claimed that using the [...]

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Video viewers at YouTube.com watched 93 videos on average during the month January, representing an increase of 50% versus a year earlier. Nearly 173 million US internet users watched online video during the month, according to the comScore Video Metrix. US Internet users watched 32.4 billion videos in January, with Google Sites ranking as the top [...]

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Orange and Vodafone are seeking a reduction in the access fees charged by the Romanian incumbent telco Romtelecom to its infrastructure. This, reports ZF, would allow them to offer a wider portfolio of services including IPTV. Orange is already on record as having said that its plans to enter the satellite TV market in Romania were [...]

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Eutelsat Communications has appointed Ethan Lavan as director of the Group’s In-Orbit Resources Division. Prior to joining Eutelsat, Ethan was responsible for regulatory policy and management of service and spectrum licences at global level for Inmarsat Global, the UK-based mobile satellite services operator, which he joined in 2002. From 1989 to 2001, he held various [...]

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Pink SI has become the first broadcaster to sign up for carriage on what will be Slovenia’s second DTT multiplex. This follows an agreement reached between Pink SI, which is part of the Serbian Pink TV group, and Norkring International’s Norkring, the multiplex’s operator. The second multiplex (B) is due to make its debut on [...]

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Preliminary figures announced by the German cable operator Kabel BW at a press conference show that its turnover rose by 13% from €438 million to €493 million in 2009. EBITDA meanwhile rose by 29% from €190 million to reach €245 million. Harald Rösch, chairman of the board of Kabel BW, said the company is now fully [...]

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Poland’s 10 largest cable operators ended 2009 with a combined total of 770,900 digital TV subscribers, according to data produced by the Polish Chamber of Electronic Communications (PIKE) and published by Wirtualne Media. Although Vectra still accounted for the most (240,000), it was closely followed by UPC (229,400), while Multimedia Polska (106,000) was in third [...]

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