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DNA acquires own shares, changes ownership
Finish cable operator DNA and its main shareholders have purchased a total of 2,027,167 DNA shares from Sanoma Entertainment Finland. Of these, DNA acquired 1,116,896 shares using unrestricted...
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DNA increases cable subs, plans DTT expansion
Finish telco and cable operator DNA ended 2011 with 602,000 cable TV subscribers, up slightly on 598,000 at the end of 2010. The company launched a pay TV service over the country’s DTT network in...
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DNA upgrades cable, launches new service
Finnish service provider DNA has doubled the upstream speeds offered by cable operator DNA Welho and has launched a new 350Mbps broadband service as part of a major upgrade programme. The upgraded...
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DNA takes stake in online video storage provider Booxmedia
Finnish telecom and pay TV operator DNA has taken a 20% stake in Booxmedia, operator of BooxTV, a service that enables the online storage of TV content for smartphones and tablets. DNA will offer the...
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DNA hopes DTT completion will spur competition
Finnish service provider DNA has today completed its DTT network, with the switching on of the TV transmitter in Palomäki. DNA’s DTT network covers 85% of Finnish households. It offers DNA’s Welho pay...
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DNA cable subs hovering around 600,000
DNA-owned Finnish cable operator Welho TV had 597,000 TV subscribers at the end of June, up 5,000 on the previous quarter but down 5,000 on the December 2011 count. DNA’s fixed-line broadband base was...
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DNA in multiscreen pilot
Finnish cable and DTT operator DNA has begun a multiscreen pilot with vendors Conax, Cubiware, MPS Broadband and Envivio. The pilot includes end-user testing with various multiscreen services and...
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DNA expects HD boost as pay TV remains flat
Finnish cable operator DNA ended September with a total of 601,000 TV subscribers, an increase of just 2,000 year-on-year. Announcing the company’s third quarter results, CEO Riitta Tiuraniemi said DNA...
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DNA names new CFO
Finnish telco and cable operator DNA has named Timo Karppinen as chief financial officer, effective from December 1. Karppinen was previously executive director, corporate development and strategy at...
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DNA acquires Plus TV
Finnish telco, broadcaster and cable TV operator DNA has acquired digital-terrestrial pay TV service Plus TV. Plus TV, formerly owned by Swedish infrastructure and pay TV provider Teracom, operator of...
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DNA TV subscriber base declines slightly
Finnish service provider DNA saw continued low-level attrition of its cable TV and broadband base in the second quarter, losing 3,000 cable TV subs to end June with 590,000 customers. DNA lost 2,000...
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Regulator approves DNA-PlusTV takeover
The Finnish Competition and Consumer Authority has approved domestic telco, broadcaster and cable TV operator DNA’s acquisition of pay TV service PlusTV. The decision means that Plus TV will become a...
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DNA names acting CEO as Tiuraniemi departs
Finnish telco and cable operator DNA has named Jukka Leinonen as its new interim CEO, replacing Riitta Tiuraniemi, who is to leave the company. According to DNA, Tiuraniemi and the DNA board have...
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Change of ownership at DNA
Finnish service provider DNA’s fourth largest shareholder KPY Sijoitus has struck a deal to sell its 12.97% take in the company to Finda and PHP Holding for €103 million. The shares will be split...
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New CEO for Finland’s DNA
Finnish telecom and cable operator DNA has named Jukka Leinonen as its new CEO. Leinonen, currently the company’s vice-president, corporate business, has been serving as acting CEO since the end of...
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DNA moves to harmonise Finnish DTT platforms
DNA-owned Finnish digital-terrestrial pay TV service PlusTV has made HD channels available to its subscribers, with viewers now able to use a single decoder and card to receive both PlusTV and DNA’s...
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DNA begins airing HD versions of Yle channels
Finnish telecom and TV operator DNA is to begin broadcasting HD versions of public channels Yle TV1 and TV2 on its cable and digital-terrestrial networks. The channels will be made available free of...
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DNA to air new Yle HD services on cable
Finnish service provider DNA is to air HD versions of all four of the country’s public channels on its cable network. Earlier this month DNA said it would introduce Yle TV1 HD and Yle TV2 HD on its...
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DNA combines all TV units under Welho brand
Finnish telecom operator DNA is combining all its TV and fixed-network broadband services in a single company, DNA Welho. The move means that DNA will merge digital-terrestrial pay TV unit Plus TV,...
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DNA adds to pay TV base
Finnish telco DNA now has over 300,000 pay TV customers across its cable and terrestrial networks, while overall cable TV numbers have slipped slightly to 591,000, down 1,000 on the previous quarter....
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