There were some technical problems during the voting at the semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest on Wednesday night which meant some phone votes were not counted. Deutsche Telekom's Spanish subsidiary Digame, who are overseeing the phone vote process, admitted their software had made some errors shortly after the semi-final event in Istanbul on Wednesday night, but stressed that when the process was redone the same ten countries came out as winners. The European Broadcasting Union who produce the Contest have ordered a full report on the problems, and have requested reassurances from Deutsche Telekom and Digame that the same problems won't re-occur on Saturday for the main Contest.
As previously reported, there are so many countries in Europe now, some were made to enter the semi-final in order to win a place in the main Contest on Saturday night. The ten countries who won a place at the final are Greece, Bosnia, Albania, Serbia and Montenegro, Malta, the Netherlands, Ukraine, Croatia, Macedonia and Cyprus.