TDC Extends Denmark IPTV Offering

December 14, 2006 - TDC has launched a rather ambitious commitment to television via broadband, otherwise known as IPTV, to date. TDC predicts that more than 1.8 million households will have access to a TDC TV.

The new interactive television network airs in February and TDC hopes it will cover around 61% of households in Denmark. Coverage will be expanded during 2007 and it is hoped that coverage will have extended to 70% by year-end.

It is a technology jump compared to the current broadband television as well as to traditional cable or satellite television. Other European countries such as France and Italy have been successful in their deployments of IPTV and each posess over 200,000 subscribers. Only time will tell whether Denmark will follow suit.

”We think that in future competition in the broadband market will be about offering the best content services, and television and movies will play a key role. This is TDC’s alternative to television of the future,” says Gert Rieder, director of TDC Residential.

”We are in the middle of a comprehensive development project transferring the traditional telephone network to a multimedia network including all from telephony to HDTV and movies. The new version of TDC TV is the first specific result of this work,” says Gert Rieder.