Sky to move many Vodafone cable customers in Germany to IPTV delivery from 10 February

Sky Deutschland migrates Vodafone cable customers to IPTV

As it waits to be acquired by RTL, Sky is beginning a transition away from traditional cable delivery towards IPTV for customers on Vodafone’s network The service provider will, from 10 February, start migrating a large proportion of its linear channels for Vodafone cable customers from classic DVB-C transmission to IPTV. This marks one of the most significant distribution changes in Sky’s recent history and was confirmed by Sky Deutschland in a…

Sky to move many Vodafone cable customers in Germany to IPTV delivery from 10 February

Sky Deutschland will begin switching a large number of channels carried on Vodafone’s cable platform from traditional cable delivery to an IP-based feed, with the migration starting on 10 February. The change affects Sky subscribers who take the service via Vodafone cable. Sky confirmed to German trade title Digitalfernsehen.de that impacted channels will no longer be distributed “classically” via the cable network, instead being delivered as IP…