WORLDWIDE MARKET RESEARCH REPORT - CISE

EC/IST FP6 Project No 026920
Work Package: 6
Type of document: Report
Date: 20.12.2007
File name: OP_WP6_D37_V1.0.doc Version: 1.0
Title: Worldwide Market Research Report 150 / 356
Lithuania
Concurrent Secures is the main (and probably the only) video provider present in Lithuania.
[E16] Concurrent announced the commercial deployment of video-on-demand in Lithuania in
2007. Lithuanian telecommunications provider UAB Alpha komunikacijos has chosen
Concurrent’s MediaHawk On-Demand Platform to launch the new broadband system that is
projected to reach up to 40,000 IPTV subscribers in a decentralized architecture covering
most of the major cities, including Vilnius, the capital city. The sale is the second one in the
Baltics to be secured through Concurrent partner Scansatec, one of the leading broadband
and IP technology providers in Finland and the Baltics. Concurrent is now the sole on-
demand vendor in the entire Baltic region.
In Lithuania alone, cable television operators pass approximately 620,000 households,
which represent a huge growth opportunity for on-demand services.
“Concurrent was chosen because of their flexible and scalable architecture”, stated Tero
Jousi, owner and general manager of Scansatec. “Their superior technology has helped us
tremendously in securing these Baltic markets, and we are confident that our partnership will
garner additional markets in Eastern Europe”.
Marius Dabrisius, CEO of Alpha komunikacijos, views the MediaHawk on-demand solution
as field-proven and the only reliable on-demand solution for their system. “We trusted
Scansatec with our head end gear and middleware”, he said. “Their recommendation of
Concurrent for the on-demand solution was supported by the fact that Concurrent has
shipped more IP streams to Europe than any other provider”.
To date, Concurrent has deployed over 1.1 million video streams in 26 countries.
Romania
The main IP-TV operator in Romania are Atlas Telecom Romania and Ines.
[E16] This year, ECI Telecom announced that it signed a contract with Atlas Telecom
Romania to expand their broadband network. The three-year contract will provide Atlas
Telecom Romania with the ability to cost-effectively offer triple play and IPTV services.