Sweden Getting World's Largest IP TV Network

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Sweden Getting World's Largest IP TV Network

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TeliaSonera Sweden has finally come out with its long anticipated is IPTV services launching it simultaneously in 15 of Sweden's largest cities and towns.

The service looks like overnight it's becoming one of the largest IP TV rollouts in Europe, if not the world.

Back in November TeliaSonera launched its ADSL2+ 24 Mbps broadband service in preparation to carry this service to a wider audience at higher speeds, and was one of the first ADSL2+ ready carriers in Europe.

TeliaSonera already offers fixed line telephony and this completes the full triple play suite in Sweden.

The TV service is available now in Borås, Gävle, Gothenburg, Helsingborg, Jönköping, Linköping, Lund, Malmö, Norrköping, Stockholm, Sundsvall, Umeå, Uppsala, Västerås and Örebro.

The service has two packages of channels. Channel Package I with 23 channels, including the television channels SVT 1 and 2 from Sveriges Television, The Knowledge Channel, Children's Channel, TV4, TV4+, TV400, TV Film, Channel 5, several Discovery channels, Animal Planet, MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon and Eurosport. Channel Package II includes more of SVT's channels, TV4 and the movie and sports channels from Canal+.

TeliaSonera Sweden's digital TV subscribers can rent movies through the video-on-demand service. The film providers are SF Anytime and Live Networks, which together offer around 150 movie titles. Customers have access to a rented movie for 20 hours, in the same way as rentals from video stores, and can start, stop, rewind and pause in the same way as you can on a video recorder or DVD player.

The company said that it expects a rapid build out and that 70% of Sweden's households will be able to order digital TV from TeliaSonera by the end of the year.

Up to March 13, 2005, customers who order the new digital television service will receive the digital box free of charge and will not have to pay the one-time connection fee, or the card fee for the first six months.

Channel Package 1 costs 129 Swedish krona per month ($18.50), while Channel Package 2 costs 229 Swedish krona a month ($33).

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Laws in Sweden tell that all television operators must carry the analogue version of TV4. TV4+ is also available analogue cable tv.
TV4 is transmitted free-to-air in the digital terrestrial network while TV4+, TV4 Film and TV400 require subscription from Boxer. The channels are also avalible on satellite from Canal Digital and Viasat, and on cable tv from com hem and UPC.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV4_AB
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