BT is rolling out the celebrated 21st Century Network (21CN) and has announced further additions to the work in progress, with some parts of Devon looking to benefit from this upgrade to a faster broadband service.

However this work is not going to take place overnight.

In fact it probably won’t be until this time next year that Devon households will be able surf the internet using the latest superfast broadband technology.

21CN will mean that households will be able to access the internet at speeds up to 24 Mbps, with the actual speed depending on the consumer’s distance from the exchange.

These speeds are almost double the maximum broadband speed available to the average UK household.

BT expects to be offering this faster broadband service to 75 per cent of UK homes by 2011!

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Superfast broadband in the West Country

Who could imagine that one day Sky TV would be able to get die hard football fans to wear large glasses that seem to come from eighties, when they go down to the pub!

Well that is exactly what Sky TV has done with the launch of the Sky 3D channel and with the first match for the channel between Man Utd and Chelsea this weekend, it seems that the pubs and clubs have had to commit to Sky 3D too.

One such chain of pubs is Town and Country which is one of the first pub groups to announce that it has made a deal with Sky TV for Sky 3D.

To provide this match on Saturday for pub goers has meant some serious investment from the pub chain.

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Spain’s main audiovisual group, Prisa’s Sogecable, is planning the launch of a pay-DTT operator as a complementary service to its satellite pay-TV operator Digital+.

This future new pay-TV operator will be an individual service to that of Abertis Telecom’s Premium TDT offer, which currently only offers premium soccer channel Gol TV.

That channel’s owner, Mediapro, recently announced its own pay-DTT operator launch. So apparently there will be two pay-TV operators in Spain.

With Sogecable’s new project the producer wants to directly compete with Telefónica’s DSL pay-TV operator Imagenio, cable operator Ono and the country’s other IPTV offerings from Jazztel and Orange.

In order to initiate the new project Sogecable will include the two digital channels allocated to its national free-to-air network Cuatro, which it has agreed to sell to Mediaset’s national private free-to-air network
Telecinco in return for 18% of the capital of the new group.

According to this agreement Telecinco has given Sogecable the management of its pay-TV offering once the two groups are merged.

According to the newspaper Expansión, Prisa is working to have its pay-DTT channels ready for next September once new channels have been added to Gol TV.

But going with a different technology would mean commercial problems so Sogecable could be forced to adopt Abertis Telecom’s chosen technology for its new pay-DTT operator.

Abertis adopted Nagravision and Irdeto conditional accesses.

A total of 270,000 pay-DTT boxes have been sold so far in Spain, all under the TDT Premium standard led by Abertis.

But taking account of the expectations of the pay-DTT market, retailers bought nearly 1.5 million of these boxes. Now it is time to commercialize them.

With the same pay-DTT box the user will be able to get different offerings.

Sogecable’s new pay-DTT offering could cost around €15 monthly according to some company sources, which is the same price as Gol TV’s.

With an averge monthly price of €40, Prisa’s satellite pay-TV operator Digital+ is Prisa’s main income source.

Sogecable wants pay-TV on DTT

Amino Communications, the world leading independent IPTV specialist, has won the Costa Rican licitation to provide set-top boxes (STBs) to support a major IPTV rollout by the Costa Rican Electricity Institute (ICE – Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad).
The network operator plans to launch services in the first half of 2010, targeting up to 100,000 homes across [...]

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Amino in Costa Rica IPTV deal

It’s interesting to see the BBC placing its long running Countryfile series on prime time on BBC1. After the tidal wave of home and garden programmes, which would have seemed a total anathema to a commissioning editor ten years ago, it seems that the next wave is back to the country.

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