The group's strategy is founded on a solid European base with regular and growth, on innovative projects with operational and marketing objectives, and on all areas linked to digital growth, HDTV, Mobile TV, digital radio and 3D cinema. TDF's strategy is based on 3 cornerstones: the internationalisation of activities, innovation and mobility.

Internationalisation of activities
By increasing its points of anchorage, TDF is well-placed to deploy an international development strategy based on three strands: promoting TDF's industrial model in other countries, capitalising on the experience acquired on the most advanced markets and developing in terms of the activities which take place at European level.
In 2007, the group reinforced its European presence with the acquisition of Alticom, followed by Antenna Hungaria and MediaBroadcast. Courtesy of this last acquisition, its international activity will account for 50% of its end-of-2008 turnover, compared with 10% at the start of 2007. For the TDF Group, 2008 will be a year of consolidation.
From development to implementation, the growth strategy as a whole is applied on the European scale, with the integration phase based on transverse initiatives. In February 2008, the group launched a series of development projects connected with TNT, HDTV, TMP, digital radio, digital cinema and also high speed, complete with European-level management control and a networking of local correspondents. Twelve European centres of technical expertise have been created, while the transverse corporate functions have also been strengthened, with purchasing, human resources, finance and communication forming the subject of a group dynamic.

Digital and mobile growth
Digital terrestrial television, high definition, mobile TV and also IP TV...digital is taking over the image at all levels. With the evolution of the image and the proliferation of new technologies, new opportunities are constantly emerging. The movement is still in its infancy and TDF is actively involved with the aim of supporting the interest of its clients and partners.
Dynamism and, innovation can be found at all levels of the TDF structure: they lie at the heart of research and development, as well as being fundamental to the operational and commercial initiative.
Right from their origin, TDF helps the technologies of tomorrow to emerge. DAB, DVB-H, digital cinema, 3D,..., TDF has always succeeded in positioning itself at the core of innovation and continues to invest in the future of the terrestrial networks. Its motto: ‘the technology behind progress'. The group acquires the resources and expertise to discover new opportunities, anticipate the requirements and renew its services in order to provide effective solutions tailored to clients' strategies for growth.

Innovation
Mobile technology is rushing into our lives in a high speed race the boundaries of which are constantly being. Traditional players and new ones, operators, ISP s, broadcasters and local authorities - each, at different levels, is cementing t he new development opportunities created b y t he arrival of mobile technologies.
The Group is taking advantage of the expertise it has acquired in the audiovisual domain to offer telecommunications' operators solutions based on on-site hosting, as well as maintenance and operation of mobile networks.
Assisting transformation of mobile operators' role
The explosion in mobile technologies, the arrival of 3G and soon high-speed broadband, along with the diversification of uses, significantly changes the configuration of the market - a trend which the spectrum optimization is strengthening. Encouraged by this groundswell, mobile operators are gradually positioning themselves as real service operators.
In Europe as in the United States, where 80% of passive facilities belong to "tower companies", a growing distinction can be observed between the activities of network operator and service operator. A provider of technical solutions intended for mobile operators, TDF is developing integrated offers based around the on-site management and hosting of equipment, maintenance as well as operation of mobile 2G and 3G networks.

Enhancing shared broadband facilities
Implementing its technical services supplier initiative in relation to mobile operators, throughout the year TDF developed its expertise in wireless broadband networks (WiMAX and 450 MHz). This draws on significant upstream involvement in the development of expertise in these technologies - contribution to standardization work, active member of the WiMAX Forum and active participation to the patent pool formed to establish the licenses policy. TDF has carried out numerous experiments (Paris, Metz, Amiens, etc.) in order to prepare for the operational launch. In the context of its WiMAX licenses in Estonia and France and 450MHz in Finland, the Group began to roll out wireless broadband networks.
Furthermore, drawing on its network engineering expertise, TDF offers new solutions to optimize its clients' broadband capacities and is therefore deploying fiber optic local loop services in several countries.

MPEG, MP3...sound is going digital too! Digital radio already exists in Europe, in the UK for example. In France, it is being launched via a first call for tenders at the start of 2008, followed by a second at the end of the year. Comparable processes are set to begin from 2009 in Germany and Hungary. The T-DMB standard chosen in France, which is also used in Korea, offers enhanced sound quality and listening comfort. Better still, it introduces a set of optimised functionalities favouring the development of new uses for radio, such as the search for a programme by its name, new multimedia services (associated data, images), deferred listening, selection of programmes.
A company on the move, TDF is relying on its historical expertise in audiovisual broadcasting of TV and radio to, on the one hand, rise up the value chain and on the other, to develop new areas of expertise, in telecoms in particular but also on the IP or cinema networks. Deploying its positioning as a B-to-B operator of pooled networks on all of the digital and mobile growth engines, TDF is currently establishing itself as a five-format player: in television, radio, telecoms, the Internet and cinema! Positioned at the interface of the transformations sweeping the sector, TDF possesses a transverse and neutral understanding that allows it to accompany all of its clients in the evolutions which they are undergoing.