China Telecom sets up R&D lab for IPTV technologies in Shanghai
China Knowledge Online - Singapore
8, 2008 (China Knowledge) - China Telecom<728> , the nation's largest fixed-line operator, has established an R&D laboratory for IPTV technologies within ...

IPTV survey reveals an industry on the up, but with issues
TelecomTV - London,UK
TelecomTV readers and viewers think IPTV is an important component in the telco armoury (and no multi-play should be without it), but a significant minority ...

Comstar to buy Ural with eye on IPTV
FierceIPTV - Washington,DC,USA
Comstar already offers IPTV and related services in some regions of Russia, and the company said UTC will soon offer IPTV and expand its broadband service ...

UTStarcom PCD sale tightens IPTV focus
FierceIPTV - Washington,DC,USA
By Dan O'Shea UTStarcom, a vendor that has won numerous IPTV deals in China and elsewhere, is selling its Personal Communications Division for $240 million ...

IPTV Struggling to Secure Content
코리아타임즈 - South Korea
The KCC will receive applications for IPTV licenses next month and the country's leading Internet operators, KT, Hanarotelecom and LG Dacom are expected to ...

How telcos can succeed with IPTV
Total Telecom - UK
These are exciting times for IPTV. Research firm Infonetics projects that IPTV subscribers will grow to 53.7 million worldwide by 2009 and generate US$38 ...

Rapid Convergence of Broadcast and Telecoms Drives Growth of ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
Elsewhere in the Conference Programme, Thursday’s Technical paper sessions will include an in-depth look at technical innovations in the area of “IPTV and ...

FastWeb denies creation of IPTV group; Pioneer goes with Monolith
FierceIPTV - Washington,DC,USA
By Dan O'Shea > FastWeb acknowledges that Italy's service providers have met and talked, but did not form an IPTV content bidding group, ...

Neptuny Says Easy Content Discovery Critical to IPTV Take-Up
Computing News - Minsk,Belarus
Neptuny says that ease of sign-up and content discovery have become critical factors in the take-up of IPTV services in various countries around the world. ...

New MRG report offers IPTV operators guidance on converged service ...
Broadcast Engineering - Overland Park,KS,USA
The road to converged service offerings from IPTV operators leads to decreased operating expense and greater customer loyalty, according to a new report ...

The latest happenings from around the world of IPTV
Broadcast Engineering - Overland Park,KS,USA
IPTV middleware and applications developer Espial Group said June 30 it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire all of the outstanding shares of ...

China Telecom opens Shanghai IPTV lab
FierceIPTV - Washington,DC,USA
By Dan O'Shea China Telecom has started an IPTV research laboratory within its existing Shanghai research facility, according to local newspaper reports. ...

ZyXEL announces new wireless ADSL2/2+ gateway, IPTV STB

Agilent Technologies unveils Mediaroom IPTV support for J6900A ...

Triveni Digital CTO Will Join IPTV Quality Assurance Panel at IBC2008
Broadcast Newsroom - Newport Beach,CA,USA
"Successful quality assurance in the IPTV realm requires comprehensive monitoring in the appropriate places and comparison against pertinent standards," ...

Report: IPTV Operators Need Better Tools to Monitor Quality

TUS Telekom, VoIP and IPTV Provider, Standardizes Data Warehouse
TMCnet - USA
By Anuradha Shukla TUŠ Telekom, a company that describes itself as Slovenia’s newest supplier of mobile telecommunications, broadband, IPTV and VoIP, ...

enCentro Launches IPTV Transcoding Solution
TMCnet - USA
By Anshu Shrivastava enCentro, a provider of IPTV solutions for the Telco, Corporate and Hospitality Markets, recently announced the launch of its ...

Metronet completes integration with Vodatel
Telecom Paper (subscription) - Houten,Netherlands
... users have been switched over to Metronet's infrastructure, on which they will continue receiving the contracted internet, telephony and IPTV services. ...

TEMA awards UTStarcom for excellence in telecom
CIOL - Bangalore,Karnataka,India
"UTStarcom has made a long-term investment in, and commitment to, the success of IPTV, Broadband and NGN solutions in India's rapidly growing market," said ...

French Telecom Firm Iliad Takes $1.6 Billion Loan To Buy Rival Alice
Washington Post - United States
French telecom group Iliad, which owns Europe's largest IPTV operator Free, has taken out a syndicated loan for a little over 1 billion euros ($1.6 billion) ...

PRN Extends Digital Signage Contract With Circuit City
aka.tv - London,UK
PRN, who has been working with Circuit City since 1994, will expand its new IPTV platform (currently being tested in 25 Circuit City store locations) and ...

PlayTV UK Announces Channel Line Up for IPTV Service
TVover.net - St. Louis,MO,USA
The long awaited channel line up for the UK’s first open, consumer, IPTV service, PlayTV UK, is now released. Powered by the Global Digital Broadcast ...

Future of IMS in an IPTV world
SmartBrief - Washington,DC,USA
The growth of IPTV is likely to encourage providers to significantly adopt new IMS technologies in the future, according to a new report from MRG. ...

Radical retooling of BCE to begin this summer, says analyst
The Canadian Press - MONTREAL
"BCE has a number of key decisions it needs to make, including a decision on wireless technology, the build of IPTV, the loss of a material number of ...

Metronet completes integration with Vodatel
Telecom Paper (subscription) - Houten,Netherlands
... users have been switched over to Metronet's infrastructure, on which they will continue receiving the contracted internet, telephony and IPTV services. ...

Sony's Glasgow On Tru2way, IPTV, Blu-ray
Twice - New York,NY,USA
By Steve Smith -- TWICE, 7/7/2008 7:41:00 AM Playa Del Carmen, Mexico — IPTV is a work in progress, Tru2way didn’t happen overnight and watch out for ... 

The Future of TV According to AT&T
Gizmodo Australia - Sydney,NSW,Australia
The first thing I spot--and ask about--when I walk in is the Xbox 360 on the shelf, a ghostly reminder of the promise of a ubiquitous IPTV box. The status? ...