US IPTV subs wax, as cable subs wane
IPTV News
Telcos will be leading the next growth phase for pay-TV services in the US, with the number of IPTV subscribers there set to increase from 8.8mn at the end of 2011 to 18.6mn in 2017, according to new figures from US analysts Parks Associates. Satellite ...

TelcoTV: ARRIS intros multicast IPTV ad bundle
Rapid tv news
ARRIS has introduced a bundled multicast IPTV advertising solution at the TelcoTV event, for the delivery of national, regional, zoned and targeted ads. The end-to-end solution integrates ad storage, streaming, insertion and splicing in one device, the ...

Vendors suggest ways to 'squeeze your copper plant' at TelcoTV
FierceIPTV
Broadband is the only way for rural telcos to be competitive and, in some instances, to continue to be in business. And delivering broadband--especially when it includes a triple play of voice, video and data services, is not an inexpensive proposition ...

Telcos must be in video business, argues Telco TV speaker
FierceIPTV
Telcos with broadband networks are in the video business, whether they know it or, more importantly, whether they want to be or not, Bernie Arnason, managing partner of Pivot Media, a marketing intelligence and consulting firm, said during an ...

Hawaiian Telcom adds HD-based TV JAPAN to IPTV lineup
FierceTelecom
Hawaiian Telcom (Nasdaq: HCOM) on Wednesday added TV JAPAN to its growing IPTV channel lineup, making it the latest high definition channel it now offers to its Oahu IPTV customer base. Current Hawaiian TV customers who don't subscribe to TV ...

Seed Savers featured on IPTV
Decorah Journal
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Alcatel-Lucent panel: Robust home networks key to telco video deployments
FierceIPTV
A robust home network is perhaps the most important element when deploying a successful telco video service, and, for now, it's a space that's very unsettled, panelists at an Alcatel-Lucent TelcoTV workshop said Wednesday. "That's the No. 1 issue for ...

AT&T adds 198k U-verse TV subs in Q3
IPTV News
US telco AT&T had reached 4.3mn active subscribers to its managed IPTV service 'U-verse TV' by the end of the third quarter of this year, having added 198,000 customers in the three-month period. The company adds that triple-play services delivered ...

Worldwide pay-TV market shows growth
Broadband TV News
The worldwide pay-TV market is growing on all major TV platforms worldwide, including cable, satellite, and IPTV. Pay-TV service revenue is expected to reach $236 billion (EUR 182 billion) by the end of 2012, up from $223 billion (€171.3 billion) in ...

ATMC Cable TV and North State Communications Choose Mariner xVu™ to ...
Sacramento Bee
"Using Mariner xVu, ATMC and North State Communications can proactively and efficiently confirm and isolate IPTV performance issues before they negatively affect the end user experience, thereby dramatically improving customer satisfaction and ...

Arris targets ads at TelcoTV

Specifically, Arris is introducing a bundled multicast IPTV advertising platform for the delivery of national, regional, zoned and targeted ads at TelcoTV 2012. The end-to-end offering integrates ad storage, streaming, insertion and splicing in only ...

AT&T signs up 198000 new U-verse TV subscribers
FierceIPTV
AT&T (NYSE: T) said it posted a net gain of 198,000 U-verse TV subscribers and 613,000 high-speed Internet subscribers in the third quarter. The carrier notched a 2 percent increase in its wireline consumer revenue growth year-over-year, its strongest ...

Cable grows as FTTH slows
FierceIPTV
No one really came out and said it at last week's SCTE Cable Tec Expo in Orlando--at least not publicly--but cable's move to DOCSIS 3.1 while the DOCSIS 3.0 rollout is still nascent could happen only because the competition has either given up or gone ...

Latin American Pay TV Services Markets, 2011
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
•The most relevant drivers for this growth are competition among cable TV, Direct-To-Home (DTH), and Internet Protocol TV (IPTV) operators, an increase in service bundling, and a push of Digital TV (DTV) and High-Definition TV (HDTV) by operators.

Dune HD and Beenius partner to deliver best Of breed IPTV solution to operators
Advanced Television
Operators looking to deploy IPTV and Video on Demand (VoD) will benefit from faster, lower-risk implementations that enable them to offer more services to users through a major partnership between Dune HD and Beenius announced today at TelcoTV2012.

Ukrainian regulator licenses IPTV services
DigitalTVEurope.net
The regulator awarded licences to provide IPTV services to Farlep Invest and Yutim Media in the Kyiv region, CHKS in the Chuguev and Kharkov region and Orion in the Rovenky and Lugansk region. Operator and distributors present a round table session ...

Dune HD and Beenius Partner to Deliver Best of Breed IPTV Solution to Operators
Broadcast Newsroom
LAS VEGAS, NV -- (Marketwire) -- 10/23/12 -- TELCOTV2012 -- Operators looking to deploy IPTV and Video on Demand (VoD) will benefit from faster, lower-risk implementations that enable them to offer more services to users through a major partnership ...

Broadband Forum finds international IPTV flourishes, but broadband growth slows
FierceIPTV
IPTV is alive, well and flourishing in the international marketplace. And it's not hurting too badly in the United States, either, according to statistics compiled by Point Topic in its October Global Broadband Trends report, presented by Broadband Forum.

Parks Associates: US IPTV subscribers will more than double from 8.8 million ...
IT News Online
DALLAS, Oct. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- At TelcoTV and the Cloud Services Summit this week, Parks Associates will share new research in video services, which shows telcos will lead the next stage in pay-TV services as the number of IPTV subscribers in ...

KPN claims 20% TV market share
Broadband TV News
KPN offers two TV products in the Dutch consumer market, the pay DTT service Digitenne, which accounted for 741,000 subscribers, and its IPTV product Interactieve Televisie, which had 829,000 homes connected. Digitenne is slowly losing ground – at the ...