The end of 2007 is within sight and Conax can look back at the most successful year so far in the history of Conax. Through focused work by all Conax employees and good cooperation with Conax's customers and partners, 2007 has been a year of growth in all markets. Conax has provided more smart cards in 2007 than ever before and has also a record high number of new customers.
Conax is very proud to be chosen as a security partner by more than 250 Digital TV operators in over 70 countries and will make all possible effort to serve our customers in the best way. We are aware of the challenges coming up next year to follow up the 2007 success and we are working hard to prepare the company to be able to serve our customers even better. A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from all of us to all of you!
Conax is a leading supplier of state-of-the-art conditional access solutions for digital TV, offering content protection for broadcast via all kind of networks.
As a pioneer in the field of conditional access, Conax is a globally oriented player, with over 250 clients in more than 70 countries.
The headquarters are in Oslo, Norway. Conax has subsidiaries in Germany, USA and India and sales & support offices in Russia, Singapore, China, South Korea, Canada, and Brazil. Conax is ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 certified.
Conax - Your point of new returns!
RiksTV’s successful DTT launch in Norway
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Conax is delivering encryption to RiksTV, the Pay-TV provider of the terrestrial operation in Norway. RiksTV negotiates with program providers the content that are distributed and sold to Norwegian TV viewers. They have a large network of distributors and their ambition is to be the leading TV-distributor in Norway. Within 5 years they believe to have a customer base of 500.000 to 800.000 subscribers. |
RiksTV started the deployment of STBs in parts of Norway in the beginning of September and the launch has so far been very successful with almost 60.000 customers and more than 80.000 STBs out in the market by end of November. |
Premiere Thema available by TechniSat Smart Card with Conax Encryption from 1Q2008
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Premiere, the leading subscription broad-caster in Germany and Austria and TechniSat, the German market leader in digital receivers, will co-operate in distri-buting Premiere programmes. Beginning in the first quarter of 2008, Premiere will apply Conax standard encryption to its Premiere Thema programme package and broadcast it via the Astra satellite position-ed at 19.2° east. |
Up to now, the Premiere programs in Germany have been encrypted with Nagravision only. From the first quarter of 2008 on, the Premiere Thema package will be enabled for the TechniSat smart card included at no extra cost in TechniSat’s HD Vision series of digital satellite receivers and LCD TV sets with Conax CA embedded. Customers will be able to test Premiere Thema free of charge for two months, and for a third month after registering their smart card with TechniSat. After the end of the test phase, users can subscribe to receive the Premiere Thema package from Premiere. Premiere Thema is an offering that combines 15 theme channels, including gripping documentaries and reportages, non-stop action and suspense, Hollywood classics, popular German-language films in traditional settings, kids’ channels and non-stop music for all tastes. |
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“Conax has been working with TechniSat for a long time to build a position in the German market and we are very pleased that this effort now has lead to cooperation with one of the leading DTH operator in Europe. Conax see this as an important step to strengthen the Conax position in this very important market and we are looking forward to develop all three parties business through this cooperation”, says Geir Bjørndal, COO and VP Sales & Marketing of Conax. |
Since 2005 TechniSat has supplied the TechniSat smart card at no additional cost with all of its Conax-capable digital satellite receivers and Conax-capable LCD TV sets. The card permits reception of Conax-encrypted TV and radio programs. At present, the TechniSat smart cards permit reception of the 19 pay radio programs combined in the TechniSat Radio Bouquet (15 digital music style channels and four digital audio-book channels), and of the six pay TV programs from MTV (MTV Two, MTV Base, MTV Hits, MTV Music, VH1 Classic, and VH1 Europe). Beginning in the first quarter of 2008, newly shipped TechniSat smart cards will also permit reception of Premiere Thema channels. |
A note from the Quality Manager
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"Conax strives to continuously improve its products and services. By operating according to an ISO-9001/27001 certified management system we must regularly demonstrate to a 3rd party that we have the tools and focus necessary to be able to fulfill this work", says Rune Sandbakken, Quality Manager of Conax. |
We streamline and renew our working processes where we have identified that this is necessary, establish measurements of efficiency, quality and security in order to better reveal our level of performance and set targets for future improvements. We try to avoid making mistakes, but at the same time we treat incidents occurred, regardless of cause, as an opportunity to learn and improve our business. Conax is regularly audited by Nemko Certification and the last audit was a recertification audit. As a result of this audit, Conax Management System is now certified according to the ISO 9001:2000 standard regarding management of Quality and ISO 27001:2005 regarding management of IT security. The certification is granted for 3 years to 2010 provided successful annual follow-up audits from the certification body. General enquiries and questions shall be directed to info@conax.com If you have a support issue (including service requests), please direct it to support@conax.com If you have any enquiries related to our products or services that you feel has not been taken properly care of through our ordinary information or support channels, please contact qualitymanager@conax.com |
Conax Customer Satisfaction Survey
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Conax is about to finalize this years customer satisfaction survey. Since the last survey was carried out in springtime 2006, the client base has increased with 70 new operators adoping the Conax CA technology, so we had a record growth in number of participants this time. The results are not ready yet, but we would like to thank everyone who took the time to complete the survey. Conax is dependant on feedback to improve our performance in order to provide the best possible service to our customer. A gft will be sent out to those who answered. |
Events 2008
Conax will be present at a number of events around the world in 2008. You are welcome to drop by our booth to discuss relevant issues, future business opportunities or simply to say hello. Below is a list of events where you will find Conax next year: |
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| 12-14 March, London |
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| 19-21 March, New Delhi | 21-23 March, Beijing | 14-17 April, Las Vegas |
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| 27-29 May, Cologne | 17-20 June, Singapore | 12-16 September, Amsterdam |
