Canal+ Wins Court Case Against UPC in the Netherlands.

PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 15, 1999--

A Rotterdam Rotterdam, city, Netherlands
Rotterdam (rŏt`ərdăm', Dutch rôtərdäm`), city (1994 pop. 598,521), South Holland prov., W Netherlands, on the Nieuwe Maas (New Meuse) River near its mouth on the North Sea. , Netherlands court has confirmed the ruling from the Dutch telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. authority OPTA OPTA Onafhankelijke Post en Telecommunicatie Autoriteit
OPTA Optimum Performance Theoretically Attainable
OPTA Osteopetrosis
OPTA Orthotic & Prosthetic Technological Association
OPTA Open Packet Telephony Architecture (Cisco) in favor of upon the side of; favorable to; for the advantage of.

See also: favor pay-TV operator CANAL+ Netherlands in a dispute against cable company UPC (Universal Product Code) The standard bar code printed on retail merchandise, which is administered by GS1 US, Brussels, Belgium and Lawrenceville, NJ (www.gs1.org). in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

The suit concerned the obligation for UPC to carry the digital version of the Dutch CANAL+ premium channel, currently available only in analog format on the cable network.

OPTA ruled in July that UPC has to submit a carriage fee proposal to CANAL+ Netherlands for the digital transmission of the premium channel on its network. OPTA also decided to audit the cable operator's accounts to determine the amount that could be set for signal distribution of the CANAL+ programs, both in analog and digital formats. It is expected that OPTA's audit will be concluded in the next few weeks.

CANAL+ Netherlands has close to 280,000 subscriptions to its premium channel, of which more than 30,000 receive the service in digital via satellite. OPTA's decision, confirmed by the Dutch court on Sept. 14, will help make the Dutch premium channel more widely available in digital format on Dutch cable networks. In addition, more than 200,000 Dutch households have satellite access to the digital service CANAL DIGITAAL.

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