Deutsche Telekom to sell Kirch's digital decoder (Telekom vermarktet Kirchs Digital Decoder )
09/21/98
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
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Copyright(C) 1998 Abstracted from Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in German, Source: World Reporter (TM)
Deutsche Telekom AG, Germany's leading telecommunications group, will start selling a decoder for digital television in early October. The group will initially hand out the so-called Smart Card, which allows the use of the digital channels, free of charge. From 1 July 1999 onwards, it will charge a monthly fee of DM 9.9 in addition to the cable television fee.The German media giant Kirch will provide the decoder , which will be sold for DM 1099. German television viewers currently have access to 67 digital channels. From October onwards, Deutsche Telekom will also offer the Italian RAI Uno and Due, the Serbian RTS, the Croatian HRT SAT, the Spanish RTVE and the Chinese CNE. The group is currently looking for investors for its cable television business. 17 million households in Germany have cable television, nearly 6 million of whom are customers of Deutsche Telekom.
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