Telefónica, the Spanish company that owns Telefónica O2 Czech Republic (the renamed Český Telecom), launched an IPTV pilot program in the Czech Republic last month. The “digital television over the internet” offering will initially include 30 channels and around 250 movies for download. Telefónica is planning to expand its offering beyond its employees in the next couple of months.
Cable television is not available in our apartment in Prague. We have a satellite dish, but have not signed up for any packages to increase our selection of English language channels. So the selection remains limited to two news stations – BBC World and EuroNews, which we have named our “disaster channels”. Through our antenna, we get the four Czech stations – ČT1, ČT2, Nova, and Prima. But between the reality TV programming, low budget 1998 German made-for-TV movies and Czech variety-type shows, there is not much to get excited about.
I hope Czech IPTV is available to us soon. It’s about time we had a better selection of entertainment and an added bonus will be playing with the new technology.
Telefonica 02 Czech Republic Launches Pilot Operation of IPTV – 7/19/06
Telecom preps IPTV – 2/20/06
Don’t touch that browser! ČT to launch Internet TV – 8/29/05
[…] Last week I blogged about the upcoming IPTV service from Telefónica O2 Czech Republic. Well, today Telefónica launched their rebranding of the former Český Telecom and Eurotel brands. There are O2 billboards and a newly launched website at http://www.cz.o2.com. In addition, they launched their IPTV service called O2 TV. […]