[opendtv] Finnish switchover jams Digita's helplines
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 10:16:09 -0400
Strange. In the past, digital switchovers have been rather
anticlimactic.
Bert
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http://www.dtg.org.uk/news/news.php?id=2672
Finnish switchover jams Digita's helplines
Finland's switch to digital-only TV prompted thousands of calls to
Finnish transmission company Digita over the weekend. Finland switched
off analogue terrestrial signals at 4am on Saturday. Analogue cable
operators have six months to complete the roll-out of digital networks
in the country. Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat said Digita's
helplines were jammed soon after switchover.
"Even though we were prepared for a large number of calls, the day was
busier than we had been able to anticipate," Digita's Riitta Kontulam
told Helsingin Sanomat.
Finnish viewers turned to Digita for guidance in installing digital
decoders, with some spending up to half an hour talking to a helpline
adviser.
Finland has yet to agree on what to do with spectrum liberated by
switchover. The nation's switchover also affected 50,000 homes in
Estonia that regularly watched Finland's analogue channels. Estonia is
due to complete its digital switchover in 2011.
A survey suggested that by mid-August some 220,000 homes in Finland
still had not purchased digital terrestrial set-top boxes.
Lovelace Consulting 04.09.2007
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