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MEDIA Satellite & Broadband News<br />
encryption for the system, with two types<br />
of decoders available (Humax HDCI-2000<br />
and General Satellite’s HD-9000).<br />
SCANDINAVIA<br />
TANDBERG MPEG-4 AVC<br />
COMPRESSION FOR <strong>TELE</strong>NOR<br />
Tandberg’s MPEG-4 AVC compression and<br />
IP multiplexing solutions has been selected by<br />
Telenor Satellite Broadcasting to provide IP video<br />
contribution and direct-to-consumer IPTV services<br />
in Scandinavia. Tandberg is providing encoding<br />
and multiplexing from six locations across northern<br />
Europe and Scandinavia, with all video distributed<br />
across an IP transport network for IPTV consumer<br />
services in Sweden, Norway and Denmark.<br />
TELIASONERA SELECTS MEDIAFLEX<br />
SMART WI-FI SYSTEM<br />
TeliaSonera has selected and is deploying Ruckus<br />
Wireless’ MediaFlex Smart Wi-Fi systems to<br />
provide customers flicker-free wireless distribution<br />
of the popular IP-based digital TV service<br />
(IPTV), Telia Digital-TV, throughout their homes.<br />
Telia Digital-TV, which has some 300,000<br />
customers, offers subscribers around 70 TV<br />
channels, 24-hour on-demand library of movies<br />
and network-based, time-shifted TV services.<br />
SERBIA<br />
<strong>TELE</strong>KOM SRBIJA LAUNCHED<br />
IPTV IN OCTOBER<br />
Telekom Srbija launched an IPTV service on<br />
October 15. According to Vladimir Lucic, director<br />
of Telekom’s mobile division, the service will be<br />
offered to the operator’s ADSL customers free of<br />
charge during a promotional period lasting until<br />
December 1, offering 80 domestic and foreign<br />
channels. This capacity is expected to be increased<br />
to carry around 200 TV channels in the future.<br />
SWITZERLAND<br />
NETSTREAM SELECTS ENTONE<br />
SOLUTION FOR IPTV SERVICE<br />
Swiss Internet service provider Netstream has<br />
selected customer premises equipment from US<br />
firm Entone for its high-definition managed IPTV<br />
deployments with operators around Switzerland.<br />
Netstream provides managed services and systems<br />
integration to a number of telecoms operators,<br />
including a managed white-label IPTV service, and<br />
selected Entone’s Hydra HD IPTV video gateway<br />
and Amulet HD IPTV set-top boxes. Hydra HD and<br />
Amulet HD also support a number of home networking<br />
technologies, including HomePlug, 802.11n and<br />
HomePNA 3.0, enabling the provision of new revenue-generating<br />
services such as whole-home DVR.<br />
TURKEY<br />
TURKEY TO LAUNCH TWO NEW<br />
SATELLITES IN 6 YEARS<br />
Turkey plans to launch two new <strong>satellite</strong>s, Turksat<br />
4A and Turksat 5A, in the next six years, which<br />
is planned to cover north and central Africa. As<br />
a result, the coverage area of Turkish <strong>satellite</strong>s<br />
will stretch out from eastern coast of the United<br />
States to China, and also from Arabian Peninsula<br />
to central Africa. Turksat plans to invite bids for<br />
Turksat 4A at the end of 2008 and launch the<br />
<strong>satellite</strong> in 2011. Turksat also projects to build<br />
one more <strong>satellite</strong> within six years with 100%<br />
national software. Turksat 5A would be built at<br />
facilities of the Turkish Aerospace Industries in<br />
2012 and was planned to be launched in 2014.<br />
UNITED KINGDOM<br />
BRITISH <strong>TELE</strong>COM CRITICAL<br />
OVER KANGAROO IPTV<br />
British Telecom has become the latest party to<br />
warn that proposed BBC, ITV and Channel 4<br />
on-demand joint venture Kangaroo raises serious<br />
competition concerns. The firm, behind the BT<br />
Vision IPTV service, has claimed that Kangaroo<br />
would “very likely” reduce competition in the UK<br />
VoD space – something that would be particularly<br />
harmful to its own interests. BT Vision launched<br />
at the end of 2006 and now has over 280,000<br />
subscribers but hopes to reach two to three million<br />
within the next three to five years. BT now fears,<br />
however, that this target could be dented by the<br />
arrival of Kangaroo in the marketplace, especially<br />
given the UK-centric nature of the programming<br />
the proposed service will make available.<br />
SETANTA OFFERS IPTV SERVICE<br />
TO UNIVERSITY STUDENTS<br />
Sports broadcaster Setanta has signed a deal with<br />
IPTV service provider Inuk to broadcast its service<br />
to students at more than 40 universities in the UK.<br />
The Inuk service allows students to watch more<br />
than 50 TV channels on their PCs through the UK<br />
university data network, Janet, which connects<br />
all UK universities. For a £9.99 monthly subscription,<br />
students will be offered a Freewire Extra<br />
package, adding subscription channels such as<br />
Setanta Sports, as well as channels from other<br />
broadcasters including MTV and FX. More than<br />
40,000 people are now receiving digital television<br />
through Inuk’s Freewire TV IPTV service.