Canal+ has reached sublicencing agreements with a trio of operators in Slovakia and the Czech Republic to carry the English Premier League. Ahead of the new season, Canal+ has confirmed deals with Slovak Telekom, DIGI Slovakia, and T-Mobile Czech Republic to broadcast all 380 matches on a newly created Canal+ Sport channel. The three year […]
Intelsat has struck a significant satellite transponder deal with Slovak Telecom that the satellite operator has hailed as one of the largest and longest agreements of its kind in the CEE region for a number of years. The deal will provide Slovak with three new transponders for extra capacity, so the company can bring more […]
Turn-key streaming app developer 24i has signed deployment deals with T-Mobile Czech Republic and Slovak Telekom. The deals will provide IPTV and TV Anywhere video experiences to T-Mobile TV GO, Magio GO and Digi GO customers in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The deployment has now gone live on iOS, Android, Android TV, web and […]
AMC Networks International – Central and Northern Europe (AMCNI CNE) has renewed its distribution agreement with Deutsche Telekom’s subsidiaries in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The long-term partnership will see T-Mobile TV Czech Republic and Slovak Telekom’s Magio and Digi Slovakia carry AMCNI CNE’s full portfolio of networks across IPTV, DTH, cable and OTT. The […]
Deutsche Telekom-owned Slovak Telekom and T-Mobile Czech Republic have chosen MediaKind, the former Ericsson Media Solutions, to provide technology for IPTV services across the two countries. The agreement with Slovak Telekom involves an upgrading of the latter’s existing Magio IPTV service, while T-Mobile Czech Republic is using MediaKind to power its new IPTV service in […]
Netflix is unlikely to make significant headway in most markets in central and Eastern Europe without making significant and probably uneconomic investments in local content, according to a line-up of speakers at the Digital TV CEE conference in Budapest. Despite the global SVOD player’s decision to localise its service in Poland, there is still a […]
AMC Networks International – Central Europe (AMCNI CE) has struck a distribution deal with DIGI Slovakia and expanded AMC’s reach with Slovak Telekom. DIGI Slovakia will add the AMC network to its channel line-up for the first time, while Slovak Telecom, which already airs the channel via its Magio IPTV platform, will also add it […]
Former Slovak Telekom CEO Miroslav Majoros has taken over as CEO of Telekom Romania, owned, like the Slovak operator, by Deutsche Telekom Group. Majoros, who took over on January 1, replaces Nikolai Beckers, who has left the group. Majoros will remain chairman of the board of directors of Slovak Telekom. Michael Tsamaz, the chairman and […]
Strong growth in Germany boosted Deutsche Telekom’s TV subscriber total in the quarter to June, with additional strong growth in TV subscribers in Greece and mixed results elsewhere in its European footprint. Deutsche Telekom grew its IPT and satellite TV base in Germany by 2.5% quarter-on-quarter, taking its total to 3.768 million, an additional 27,000 […]
Deutsche Telekom has confirmed that it is buying the 49% stake of Slovak Telekom that it does not already own for a purchase price of €900 million. Announcing the deal, Deutsche Telekom said it is buying the shares, which are currently owned by the National Property Fund of the Slovak Republic, for a price that […]
