Foxtel to launch TV Everywhere next month
IPTV News
Australian telco Foxtel has indicated that it plans to launch a new over-the-top TV service called 'Play' next month, bringing over 40 linear channels to a variety of connected devices such as smart TVs, PCs and smartphones, with no lock-in contracts ...

Oz IPTV launch date set
C21Media
Australian satellite broadcaster Foxtel has confirmed its IPTV service, Foxtel Play, will launch in mid-August. Offering more than 40 channels and at least 2,000 catch-up programmes on-demand, the service will be pitched at the 70% of the population ...

HickoryTech Deploys Amino Set-Tops
Light Reading
HickoryTech Corporation (NASDAQ: HTCO), the leading provider serving business and residential customers in the upper Midwest, has deployed Amino's HD set-top boxes as part of its IPTV service offering. Working closely with one of its US distributors ...

 Internet-linked surveillance on Charbagh station soon
Hindustan Times
“The IPTV link will allow senior officers to track passenger movement on the station premises 24X7 on their computer and even on laptops or Android-enabled mobile phones,” senior superintendent of police (GRP) Manoj Kumar said. “The IPTV footage can ...

Teliphone Corp. Announces the Sale of its IPTV Assets to Coastline ...
Sacramento Bee
VANCOUVER, July 18, 2013 -- /CNW/ - Vancouver-based Teliphone Corp. (OTCQB:TLPH), one of the world's local digital telecommunications companies, announced today that it has reached an agreement to sell all its IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) ...

ITU puts G.fast on track for 2014 approval
FierceIPTV
Share. Tools. Comment; Print · Contact Author · Reprint. The ITU has offered multiple rays of hope for telcos that want to get into the IPTV space but are unwilling or unable to build out fiber infrastructure to deliver the necessary broadband speeds.

HomeGrid Forum certifies 12 HomePNA products from Arris, Pace, others
FierceIPTV
Twelve new products from seven vendors have been certified HomePNA compliant by the HomeGrid Forum, marking the first such certification since the two bodies merged in late May. The newly certified products include set-top boxes from Arris (Nasdaq: ...

Verizon FiOS hits 5 million subscriber mark as consumer revenues climb
FierceIPTV
Verizon (NYSE: VZ) added 140,000 FiOS video customers in the second quarter and now has more than 5 million customers nationwide, the carrier said in announcing second quarter earnings. The 140,000 additions were less than the 169,000 video subs ...

IPTV TV show host encourages Britt kids to read
Mason City Globe Gazette
BRITT - An Iowa Public Television star said he would rather have kids reading than watching him on TV. "I bring you shocking news from IPTV," Dan Wardell said. "I want you to turn your TVs off, play outside, use your imagination and read a good book.".

ITU injects UltraHD over IPTV boost with new 1Gbps standard
Rapid tv news
The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has launched a new broadband standard which it believes will deliver fibre-based performance over copper wires. The new G.fast is claimed to be able to deliver up to 1Gbps performance over existing ...

HickoryTech picks Amino STBs
IPTV News
US telco HickoryTelco has selected IPTV set-top boxes from UK firm Amino Technologies to deliver video services across the upper Midwest. Amino will provide its A140 HD set-top boxes to HickoryTech, which operates a 4,100 mile fibre-based network ...

HickoryTech employs Amino set-tops for its IPTV service
FierceTelecom
Maintaining that growth and offering new HD-based IPTV services to its customers with a host of standalone and bundled packages that include flexible contracts and features like multiroom DVR will be key factors in helping the telco offset ongoing ...

WISI and IP.Netcom launch HbbTV-IPTV combination set-top
DigitalTVEurope.net
German cable technology company WISI and IP.Netcom have teamed up to provide a hybrid HbbTV and classic IPTV set-top box as part of the AiMS multiscreen content management system. The set-top uses the ETSI DVB-IP standard and has a CI+ slot as ...

EroAdvertising Adds IPTV Device Filter
XBIZ
OSS, The Netherlands — EroAdvertising has announced a new filter that enables users to target specific IPTV devices. EroAdvertising currently supports the following IPTV devices: GoogleTV, WebTV, MSNTV, SmartTV, HbbTV, SonyDTV, Philips NetTV, Xbox ...

IHS: 8% growth in global shipment of STBs in 2013
EE Herald
IHS has estimated the global shipments of STBs used for cable, satellite, terrestrial and Internet protocol television (IPTV) digital TV services are forecast to climb to 269 million units this year, up 8 percent from 250 million in 2012. IHS also ...

August start for Foxtel's internet-delivered TV menu
The Australian
FOXTEL'S new IPTV service, Play, will launch within a month. Foxtel's executive director of television, Brian Walsh, said the service, which will allow more "a la carte" access to Foxtel programming through its internet-delivered TV service, will be ...

 Telekom launches Entertain to go
Rapid tv news
Deutsche Telekom has launched Entertain to go to enable subscribers to its IPTV platform Entertain access to part of the offering on mobile devices (iPad and laptops) as well as PCs, for an additional monthly fee of €4.95. At launch, around 40 TV ...

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 LG Uplus gains 18524 broadband subs in June
Telecompaper (subscription)
The number of telephony subscribers increased to 4.45 million as the VoIP base grew by 34,579 to 3.95 million and the PSTN base lost 1,367 customers bringing the total to 498,841. LG Uplus also signed-up 41,890 IPTV subcribers, which brings its IPTV ...

Everyone wants to live in peace
YorkRegion.com
Using cable, satellite and Iptv Arrahman-Arraheem Network (www.arrahman-arraheem.com) is sharing the true spirit of Islam which is peace, justice, harmony, ...

 Amino profits jump to $3.97M on IPTV/OTT, connected home strategies
FierceIPTV
A strategy of building devices that deliver a mix of pay TV services via both IPTV and OTT and an ongoing focus on the expanding connected home environment helped Amino Technologies rack up some hefty first half profit figures, the vendor announced ...

Casa Systems Selected by Guangzhou Digital Media Group for Large-Scale CCAP
Twinsburg Bulletin
With Casa's CCAP platform, Guangzhou will be able to offer highly scalable broadband services such as IPTV, MPEG video and interactive gaming, as well as traditional broadband access and VoIP services. Guangzhou is China's sixth largest city with an ...

Casa notches large-scale CCAP deployment in China
Communications, Engineering & Design Magazine
The Casa C10G platform enables cable operators to deploy DOCSIS, IPTV and MPEG video on a single chassis over a single port. When combined with its DS8x96 module, it creates a dense I-CCAP configuration while also lowering power consumption.

STB market holds its own
Broadband TV News
The set-top box market (STB) is set to defy the challenge of multiscreen, with global shipments of devices used to receive cable, satellite, terrestrial and IPTV digital TV services set to rise to 269 million this year. According to the latest IHS Set ...

Telstra readies for an IPTV future
iTWire
Foxtel penetration is stuck at 30% – the big growth will come from IPTV. In April of this year Telstra began a major review of its operations, in which up to one third of its 35,000 staff will be reassigned or made redundant. All parts of the ...

Wisi, IP.Netcom combine HbbTV with IPTV for new STB
Telecompaper (subscription)
Germany-based Wisi Communications and Austria's IP.Netcom have introduced a hybrid set-top box (STB) combining HbbTV with IPTV for the Multi Screen Content Management System 'AiMS'. AiMS presents the available services in an identical lay-out and ...

Hulu cancels sale again; gets ready to take on Netflix, Amazon
FierceIPTV
DirecTV needed an online streaming site to bulk up its business and AT&T, which reportedly partnered with the Chernin Group, could have blended the service seamlessly into its U-verse IPTV play. Those, and others interested in plunking down big money ...

Stock Market Wire
The company - a leader in digital entertainment solutions for IPTV, Internet TV and in-home multimedia distribution - said operating profit before exceptional items jumped by 735% to £1.7m. The total operating profit figure includes a previously ...

UPC Romania looks to IPTV
Broadband TV News
UPC Romania UPC plans to launch an IPTV service in Romania. Once up and running, it will offer viewers 200 TV channels, 20 of which will be in HD and two in 3D. Quoting documents filed to the National Audiovisual Council (CNA), local reports say that ...

STBs set for record shipments
Advanced Television
According to the latest IHS Set-Top Box Market Monitor report, global shipments of STBs used for cable, satellite, terrestrial and IPTV digital TV services are forecast to climb to 269 million units this year, up eight per cent from 250 million in 2012 ...

Casa Systems Selected by Guangzhou Digital Media Group for Large-Scale ...
Broadway World
Guangzhou is China's sixth largest city with an estimated population of 12.7 million people, representing two million subscribers, including 165,000 broadband subscribers and 170,000 IPTV subscribers. Guangzhou has previously selected Casa's C10G ...

IHS: Set-top shipments increasing despite TV Everywhere initiatives
FierceIPTV
The research said STB shipments for cable, satellite, terrestrial and IPTV digital TV services will rise 8 percent this year to 269 million units, 19 million more than the 250 million units that shipped in 2012. Not only that, but even as connected TVs ...

Telstra cuts jobs from digital media unit
Business Spectator
Telstra is set to cut another 55 jobs as part of a restructure of its digital media and IPTV division. According to The Australian, around 12 roles have already been cut from the telco as part of a process initiated in April. While another 43 jobs have ...

AT&T acquires Leap Wireless for $1.19B
FierceIPTV
In addition to mobile Internet, however, AT&T has said Project VIP will use broadband wireless to supplement and, in some cases, actually replace wireline broadband, including broadband-based IPTV, in rural areas of the country and those places where ...