Worldspace Satellite Radio, a global satellite-based digital radio services provider, has licensed Certicom’s conditional access system to secure its satellite digital radio (SDR)-based broadcast services for the European market, Certicom announced Feb, 5.

Worldspace plans to roll out its European service on a country-by-country basis, beginning with Italy, which will be serviced by its AfriStar satellite. An additional satellite is expected to provide increased capacity over the continent, affording European consumers per country access to approximately 50 channels of diversified sports, talk and commercial-free music programming.