Microsoft previews Xbox TV, confirms Kinect capabilities
IPTV News
As IPTV News speculated back in April, Microsoft is planning to leverage the voice control and motion detection capabilities of the Xbox 360's Kinect peripheral to give users of the new TV streaming service (announced last June) powerful new ways to ...

Xbox TV and the Mainstreaming of IPTV
Digital Media Wire
Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer told a convention center full of financial analysts that Xbox TV will launch in time for this year's holiday season. That would give families another reason to put an Xbox 360 on their gift list, ...

Lantiq Chips Help Deutsche Telekom Deliver 'All-in-One' Broadband Gateway ...
Sacramento Bee
Importantly, the router supports dual band (2.4 GHz and 5.2 GHz) Wi-Fi for concurrent data and media streaming, including IPTV, which allows for superior video quality transmission over WLAN. "Our goal is to exceed consumer expectations for overall ...

The economy, not OTT is US cable's biggest threat
Rapid tv news - MIchelle Clancy
Cable, IPTV and satellite is simply becoming too expensive for a good chunk of Americans to justify, the agency found, so about 20% of US subscribers are ...

Two South Dakota Broadband Stimulus Winners Select Calix for Regional Projects
MarketWatch (press release)
Both TrioTel and Midstate are moving Fiber Forward in their networks, pulling fiber deep into rural communities and utilizing advanced fiber access technologies to bring extremely fast broadband services, including internet protocol television (IPTV), ...

 New IPTV service to launch soon in Bahrain
IPTV News
Batelco, the principal telecoms operator on the island of Bahrain (located in the Arabian Gulf), has confirmed that it will launch its new IPTV service shortly in two recently-developed residential areas. The new service will offer a combination of ...

Quantenna to Demonstrate the Highest Performance 802.11n 4x4 Four-Stream Wi-Fi ...
MarketWatch (press release)
FREMONT, Calif., Sep 19, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Quantenna Communications, Inc., a leader in ultra-reliable Wi-Fi networking for whole-home entertainment, today announced it will be demonstrating HD wireless IPTV service delivery at Broadband World ...

IPTV ad revenue set to soar
Crikey (blog)
It's all good and well for us as viewers (and me as a TV blogger) to talk about the future of television resting with IPTV and provide anecdotal evidence of our viewing habits shifting, but it's another thing to do as All The Presidents Men taught us ...

SK Broadband gains 4460 IPTV subs in August
Telecompaper (subscription)
... attracting 376 new customers during the month. The company attracted 4460 IPTV customers, to end the month with a total of 911043 IPTV service subscribers.

Batelco to introduce broadband television
Gulf Daily News
Internet protocol television (IPTV) is arguably the most innovative product to be ... "Among the key features of the new IPTV service is user friendliness, ...

KT wins 70000 IPTV customers in August
Telecompaper (subscription)
Furthermore, KT gained 70000 IPTV customers to bring its total to 2.76 million. However, the number of Wi-Fi subscribers fell by 5000 to 235000 while the ...


MTG to launch third channel in Lithuania
Advanced Television
... Lithuanian TV households from launch, via satellite on MTG's own Viasat DTH platform, as well as through Lithuania's major cable TV and IPTV networks.

 

Bahrain prepares for IPTV
Rapid tv news
Bahrain's state-owned telecommunications operator Batelco is launching internet protocol television (IPTV) in the Gulf Kingdom – beginning this week in newly developed Reef Island on the northern shore of Manama. “The delivery of digital television ...

FTTH project begins to deliver HD IPTV across Doha
Rapid tv news
A Qatar-wide high definition (HD) internet protocol TV (IPTV) service is moving ever closer with the announcement that Qtel, Qatar's state telecommunications provider, is now providing broadband services over fibre to 2000 customers. ...

GVT debuts new satellite-based pay-TV service in Brazil
FierceTelecom - Sean Buckley 
GVT's new satellite-based service follows the passing of a new law that lets Brazilian telcos offer video services, including satellite and IPTV. ...