Pay DTT services are now available in 13 countries of the European Union, including the Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, the Netherlands, UK, Spain and Sweden.
There are also limited services in Germany, and also some non-EU European countries like Albania, Iceland, Macedonia, Norway and Switzerland
IP-based television providers. Verizon eventually shunned Microsoft, but AT&T bit. So has European giant Deutsche Telekom, as well as Bell and Telus.
e European Commission announced plans to revise an “interpretative communication on certain aspects of the provisions on televised advertising” to incorporate new issues relating to the new legal framework. The doc, adopted in 2004 and revised in 2007, applied to the old TV Without Frontiers Directive. The communication is non binding. The revision will aim to take into account news forms of commercial communication defined by the AVMS Directive.