Flash Points for Europe

U.K. IPTV operator Tiscali has secured distribution rights to the full suite of Sky basic channels. The deal marks a key step in the ISP’s plan to invigorate IPTV adoption in a market dominated by cable, satellite and DTT.

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Spanish firms Telefónica and Sogecable June 27 announced an agreement to collaborate on a triple-play offering, branded Trio+, based on Telefónica voice and data services and Sogecable’s Digital+ DTH platform.

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Belgian DTH start-up TV Vlaanderen has added a premium-tier package with 16 new channels available for €13.90.

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Unity Media announced May 21 it will merge operations for its three largest cable assets, iesy, ish and TeleColumbus West, creating a network that will reach over five mil. households. The regions reached by the service will cover the states of Hesse and Nordrhie Westfalia—Frankfurt and Dortmund are their largest metro areas, respectively. Click here for complete coverage of the multichannel market in Germany.

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France-based Iliad Telecom has announced it will now use MPEG-4 to encode channels for its IPTV service, Free. The upgrade will allow Free to further compress video to allow delivery of Iliad’s full channel suite to all broadband subscribers on its network where previously it required speeds of at least 3.5MB/s. Click here for complete coverage of the multichannel market in France.

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