Finnish service provider, broadcaster and digital-terrestrial transmission services provider DNA and the country’s public broadcaster Yle have become embroiled in a legal dispute that Yle says could delay the transition of the Finnish digital-terrestrial network to DVB-T2, enabling migration to an HD service.
DNA has filed a complaint with the country’s commercial court over the terms of Yle’s call for tenders for DVB-T2 distribution of its channels, which the service provider says runs contrary to the terms of the country’s procurement rules.
Yle had in February published and then suspended a tender for transition to DVB-T2, before publishing a new tender document this month. However, DNA claims that the tender favours its competitor Digita.
Pekka Väisänen, vice-president of DNA’s consumer business, said that the tender had “not changed substantially” from the…
