AT&T revamps U-verse On Demand storefront
IPTV News
UPDATED: US telco AT&T has launched a new version of its On Demand storefront for customers of its IPTV service 'U-verse' in a number of markets across the country, and plans to introduce an advanced recommendation engine at some point in the future.

WISI delivers HbbTV over IPTV
Broadband TV News
The newly configured end device for WISI's Multi Screen Content Management System AiMS combines HbbTV with conventional IPTV for the first time in a demo alongside partner IP.Netcom. A set-top running DVB-IP will be shown processing and displaying ...

Vodafone goes old school in German hook-up with Deutsche Telekom
Proactive Investors UK
Vodafone's (LON:VOD) German arm is to hook up with Deutsche Telekom to offer high-speed fixed-line broadband and internet protocol television (IPTV) services across Germany. Described as “a next-generation network access agreement”, use of Deutsche ...

Deutsche Telekom to sell new IPTV-friendly wholesale offering to Vodafone
DigitalTVEurope.net
Vodafone Deutschland has signed a preliminary contract with Deutsche Telekom that will enable it to deliver services including IPTV over Telekom's fibre network. Vodafone will share the investment risk of Telekom's fibre rollout. The incumbent telco is ...

Telstra fires 'express TV' salvo
The Australian
TELSTRA is developing plans to make popular television series available to its customers soon after they air in the US in a bid to drive penetration of its T-Box IPTV service and curb the illegal spread of copyrighted TV shows and movies in Australia ... 

TalkTalk claims fastest growing UK new IPTV business
Rapid tv news
Reporting its yearly financials for the year ended 31 March 2013, the UK ISP, one of the founding partners of the YouView project which is now contributing to its business, now boasts 230,000 IPTV subscribers, growing by 12,000 per week as TalkTalk ...

Deutsche Telekom forges IPTV pact with Vodafone
IPTV News
Germany's biggest telco Deutsche Telekom has signed a groundbreaking agreement with its main rival Vodafone under which the latter will deliver IPTV services over DT's broadband lines by the end of the year, as part of efforts to spread the risk of DT ...

ABC launches live IP streaming service
Broadcast Engineering
Automation · OTT · Branding & Switching · Cable & IPTV · Encoders · Mobile TV ... Home > Distribution > Cable & IPTV > ABC launches live IP streaming service ...

Russia's IPTV penetration to double by 2017
IPTV News
The penetration of managed IPTV services in Russia is set to double over the next five years to reach 10%, as operators continue their roll-outs and more viewers become aware of it, according to local consultants J'Son & Partners. The firm estimates ...

Google Fiber Expands Further Into Missouri Gladstone City Council ...

Dslreports
According to Google, the Gladstone, Missouri City Council has voted to let Google bring their symmetrical 1 Gbps broadband service and IPTV platform to the ...

Nearly two-thirds of smart TV owners hooking up
IPTV News
Just under two-thirds (63%) of smart TV owners are now hooking them up to the Internet, according to research firm Parks Associates – contradicting the popular ...

Ruckus Wireless designs an open Wi-Fi hotspot with a secure ...
GigaOM
Ruckus started out as a supplier of IPTV wireless streaming nodes and enterprise wireless LANs, over which security measures were much easier to enforce.

 

YouTube, Netflix suck up half of Internet traffic
IPTV News
The world's two largest online video services – Netflix and YouTube – accounted for half of all Internet traffic in North America in the year to date, according to US ...

Telstra passes half a million T-Box subs
IPTV News
Australia's dominant telco Telstra hopes to get its 'T-Box' IPTV device into more than a million homes by 2016, and is planning to forge new partnerships with the country's free-to-air TV networks to help drive take-up, according to local reports. Rick ...

Telstra's T-Box boxing its way to the top - ITWire.com
iTWire
Telstra today reported sales of its T-Box IPTV set-top boxes hit a mighty 500,000 this week, well on the way to the telco's aggressive target of more than 1 million. Telstra's desire of become a leading media player is becoming more and more realistic ...

Rural Iowa telco goes FTTH with Adtran
Communications, Engineering & Design Magazine
The teachers are able to give students a broader view of the world by integrating current events into the lessons through IPTV and DVR capability,” said Dean Schnoes, superintendent, Exira-EHK Community Schools. “The technology provided by Marne Elk ...

Australian broadcaster Seven West Media eyes hybrid IPTV
FierceIPTV
According to a story in The Register, Seven West Media told investors that it is adding an IPTV model to its distribution agenda. Speculation is that ad-supported broadcasts will be part of the mix and that using the Internet will help support targeted ...

Canada's Telus sees TV additions slow down
IPTV News
Canadian telco Telus continues to add TV subscribers at a healthy rate, with 34k added in the first quarter of this year, but concedes that this is 10k fewer than its gains for the same period of last year. The telco, which operates separate IPTV and ...

BT expands BT Vision dev team
IPTV News
UK telco BT has given a strong indication that it plans to keep its 'BT Vision' platform, despite the launch of YouView last year, by advertising for a UX designer to work on both. The job ad, posted on LinkedIn last week, states that the company is ...

Tech Analyst Jeff Kagan on Aereo Challenge to Cable TV and IPTV - Newsday
Newsday
They compete with cable television, traditional television over antenna, Internet TV or IPTV and the entire space. Here is an interview on Aereo on CNBC from May 10, 2013. Principal analyst Jeff Kagan comments on this Aereo story. “The television ...

LG Uplus adds 47536 IPTV subs in April
Telecompaper (subscription)
The company also added 47,536 IPTV subscribers in April, bringing the total to 1.23 million. LG Uplus further ended April with 4.36 million fixed-line subscribers, which includes 3.86 million VoIP subscribers (up by 50,253) and 503,823 PSTN subscribers ...

Conference brings IPTV to South Africa - Bizcommunity
Bizcommunity.com
In the near future, South Africans may consult their medical doctors through their television sets at home, by using an internet-based technology called Internet Protocol Television (IPTV), says International Telecommunication Union (ITU) co-ordinator, ...

ADTRAN and Marne Elk Horn Telephone Deliver Fiber-To-The-Home to Rural ...
Fort Mills Times
With the extensive bandwidth provided by the Total Access 5000, Marne Elk Horn is delivering Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) services capable of supporting a range of in-demand services such as IPTV, high-speed internet and high-definition video. Marne Elk ...

Seven Media mulls IPTV service
Register
Having effectively killed off TiVo in Australia, TV broadcaster Seven West Media is considering its IPTV options, telling investors it has plans to create a “broadcast to broadband” operation in 2014. While Australia's free-to-air broadcasters have ...

Telstra ramps up Internet TV - ninemsn
Ninemsn
Telstra's TV revenue increased by 1% to $333m in the six months to December 2012, driven primarily by IPTV content. Cable revenue rose 5% to $61m thanks to higher Foxtel revenue. Foxtel is jointly owned by Telstra and News Corporation (ASX: NWS).