MTS Allstream earnings get boost from IPTV, IP business services
FierceTelecom
MTS Allstream (Toronto: MBT.TO) reported on Thursday that net Q3 2012 earnings were CAD40.8 million (USD40.8 million) year-over-year for the three months ended Sept. 30, 2012, up from CAD37.0 million (USD36.9 million) from the same period a year ...

Pay TV Operators Aim to Increase Penetration in the Low-income User Group ...
Sacramento Bee
The rising competition among cable TV and DTH operators, and Internet protocol TV (IPTV) operators in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico will improve the availability and quality of services, add value to service offerings, and enhance price points.

Microsoft now controls nearly a quarter of the global IPTV middleware market
IPTV News
Microsoft's Mediaroom platform was installed in 23% of deployed IPTV set-top boxes by the middle of 2012, despite an environment that is beginning to fragment with many small and regional players, according to US firm ABI Research. Chinese system ...

TDS Telecom's wireline bundle efforts drive up revenues 5%
FierceTelecom
While TDS offers satellite video services via a relationship with Dish Network (Nasdaq: DISH), in areas where it offers its own IPTV service, it has found that broadband penetration continues to rise. During the quarter, ILEC triple play penetration ...

Report: MRG Ranks Global IPTV Market Leaders
TVover.net
MRG's IPTV Market Leader Reports identify which IPTV systems and software companies are leading each of the six IPTV market segments: access systems, video headend systems, video-on-demand server software, set-top boxes, middleware, and content ...

King keeping door open for Iowa US Senate seat in 2014
Quad City Times
Iowa Press will air at 7:30 p.m. today and noon Sunday on IPTV and at 8:30 a.m. on IPTV World. It's also available at www.iptv.org. JOHNSTON — Fresh off re-election to a sixth term, western Iowa U.S. Rep. Steve King says it's too early to talk about ...

IPTV Subscribers Top Record 6 Million in Korea
The Chosun Ilbo
The milestone comes almost four years after IPTV services were first commercialized in 2009. According to the Korea Digital Media Association, at its current pace, the number will hit 7 million by the first half of next year. Korea's top three mobile ...

Microsoft leads in IPTV middleware market: report
Computer Business Review
Microsoft's Mediaroom IPTV platform has expanded share in IPTV middleware market to 23% by the first half of 2013 despite competition from many small and regional players, according to a report by ABI Research. According to the report, the number of ...

Megafon IPTV faces delay as company changes supplier
DigitalTVEurope.net
Russian service provider Megafon has decided not to go ahead with an IPTV launch based on the platform it has been testing for the last two years and has chosen a new supplier to take its plans forward, according to local reports. Megafon has used ...

Portugal Telecom passes 600k IPTV subs
IPTV News
Portugal's dominant telco had reached 1.2mn customers for its pay-TV service 'Meo ' (delivered via IPTV and DTH) by the end of September, up 23% from one year earlier, with 41,000 added in the preceding three months alone. The company adds that ...

IPTV helps Manitoba Telecom as legacy business declines
FierceIPTV
IPTV and high-speed Internet--along with the increasingly necessary mobile wireless business--have helped Manitoba Telecom Services partially overcome a continuing-to-decline legacy voice business. While MTS said third quarter overall revenue was ...

Kansas telco TCT boosts IPTV services
FierceIPTV
It is probably mostly coincidental that Northeastern Kansas telco Tri-County Telephone Association (TCT) has upgraded its IPTV back office middleware at the same time Google Fiber rolls out Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) TV in Kansas City. More likely, the ...

BlueSky launches first IPTV service in Samoa
FierceIPTV
BlueSky Samoa has launched what it claims is the first IPTV service in the South Pacific, Moana TV, using broadband ADSL to deliver 23 channels of programming to digital set-top boxes in consumer homes. The launch is a big deal for government officials ...

Exclusive: Microsoft named as leader of two global IPTV segments
IPTV News
US firm Multimedia Research Group (MRG) has exclusively given IP&TV News access to some of its latest findings on the global IPTV market, which identifies Microsoft as leader of two separate vendor product categories, and China Telecom as the largest ...

Microsoft widens IPTV middleware lead with nearly a quarter of market
Rapid tv news
An investigation into the IPTV market by ABI Research has revealed that Microsoft's Mediaroom platform has a growing leadership of the middleware market and is now present in 23% of deployed IPTV boxes. What makes this performance more impressive, ...

Deutsche Telekom maintains IPTV growth
Rapid tv news
Deutsche Telekom has managed to increase the number of customers for its IPTV platform Entertain despite the loss of the football Bundesliga rights with 76,000 new households signing up for the German telco's TV offering in Q3 2012. In total, Entertain ...

UPDATE 1-Manitoba Tel profit up on higher demand for telecom services
Reuters
Nov 8 (Reuters) - Canada's Manitoba Telecom Services Inc , which has said it may sell its Allstream business, reported a rise in quarterly profit on demand for wireless, broadband and IPTV services. Net earnings rose 10 percent to C$40.8 million ($40 ...

Magyar Telekom gains IPTV subs
Broadband TV News
Magyar Telekom saw impressive growth in its IPTV subscriber take-up in the year to September 30, the figure increasing by 52.6% to 291,872. As a result, the latter exceed the number of DTH subscribers, which grew by 6.3% over the same period, to 287,284.

IPTV middleware market grows 23 pc in 2012
CIOL
BANGALORE, INDIA: IPTV platform leads the IPTV middleware market and continues to grow in market share as of mid-2012 to 23 per cent of deployed IPTV boxes, despite an environment that is beginning to fragment with many small and regional players, ...

BH Telecom places €3mn order for new OTT platform
IPTV News
A new over-the-top (OTT) video service is brewing for Bosnia and Herzegovina, with the country's BH Telecom placing an order worth €3mn with Slovenian firm Beenius for an OTT service delivery platform and an extension of the existing IPTV and VoIP ...

IPTV Subscribers Top Record 6 Mil. in Korea
Arirang News
According to the Korea Digital Media Association, if the current rate continues, the number of IPTV subscribers will hit the 7 million mark by the first half of next year. Currently Korea's top three mobile carriers.. SK Telecom, KT Corporation and LG ...