Intel reportedly ready to launch set-top box to deliver virtual TV service
FierceIPTV 
Remember when the set-top box was deader than the Philadelphia Phillies' chances of returning to the World Series in 2012? That was then ...

SK Broadband nears 10 mln customers
Telecompaper (subscription) 
The number of IPTV customers stood at 1.15 million as the operator gained 40352 customers in May and the number of leased line customers was 40258, up by ...

Toshiba brings in more TVs
Tech Trader
There are 11 new models in the 900A series, that includes Full HD 50Hz, FHD AMR 100 + iPTV, AMR 200 Active 3D + iPTV and FHD AMR 400 Passive 3D + ...

 
Telus to expand Optik footprint in eastern Quebec
The Wire Report (subscription) 
Telus launched IPTV services in eastern Quebec in 2007 under the Telus TV brand, ... “We were the first IPTV in Canada out West, and the first one in Quebec,” ...

Dan Wardell's Reading Road Trip to stop in Bluffs
SW Iowa News
Dan Wardell, the host of Iowa Public Television's “Kids Clubhouse,” will bring the IPTV Reading Road trip to the Council Bluffs Public Library, 400 Willow Ave., ...

Shparki Damavik raises IPTV rates, adds new TV-channels
Telecompaper (subscription) 
Belarusian regional ISP Shparki Damavik announced that it will raise the monthly subscription rate for its basic IPTV package by 40 percent from 18 June to BYR ...

Deutsche Telekom to take Sky Deutschland football
DigitalTVEurope.net 
Sky Deutschland acquired all pay TV rights to top-tier German football, including IPTV and online as well as broadcast rights, meaning Deutsche Telekom had to ...

National TV Digitization Drives 100% IPTV Growth in Asia, Says ABI Research
MarketWatch (press release)
SINGAPORE, Jun 11, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- IPTV subscriptions worldwide will grow at 70% from 2012 to 2017 with 100% growth in the Asia-Pacific off a large base of 28.5 million subscribers. Global pay-TV subscribers will reach 853.5 million at the end ...

Dailymotion buy-out could boost Orange's IPTV efforts
paidContent.org
It operates a large IPTV business in France, one of the world's top IPTV-consuming nations, and once launched a news portal called 24/24 Actu. But, in 2010, new CEO Stephane Richard unpicked Orange's strategy of owning that content, turning its Orange ...

Dan Wardell's Reading Road Trip to stop in Council Bluffs
SW Iowa News
Dan Wardell, the host of Iowa Public Television's “Kids Clubhouse,” will bring the IPTV Reading Road trip to the Council Bluffs Public Library, 400 Willow Ave., on Monday. This year, he'll present two shows: One starts at 9 am and the other starts at ...

KMAland 
The Villisca Public Library will be hosting Dan Wardell from Kids Club on IPTV 1:30 pm Monday afternoon in the Villisca Community Building, as part of Dan's ...

Sunrise selects Huawei to manage its mobile, fixed network
Computer Business Review 
Switzerland-based telecommunications provider Sunrise has awarded a five year contract to Huawei for managing its mobile and fixed network including internet and IPTV. The agreement will see Huawei provide new services, including design and planning, ... 

'Google Fiber' Appears on TV Box Application at US FCC
BusinessWeek 
By Todd Shields on June 05, 2012 A digital-equipment maker has applied for US regulatory clearance for a device labeled “Google fiber” that's described in filings as a set-top box for video service. Humax Co. Ltd. (115160), based in Gyeonggi, ...

Hardware For Blazing Fast Google Fiber Shows Up at the FCC
Gizmodo - ‎Jun 5, 2012‎
A few months ago we heard rumors about Google's plan to launch a TV or video service, which would run on the Google Fiber that's currently being installed in Kansas City. Now Engadget has turned up more evidence that this might be the case at the FCC. 

Apple opens doors to developers on Apple TV
FierceIPTV 
Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) is apparently serious about this Apple TV stuff, according to BGR. In a blog post, BGR founder Jonathan Geller reported that the ...

Sigma Designs launches media processors
Telecompaper (subscription) 
Fabless semiconductor provider Sigma Designs has introduced its SMP8672 media processor to deliver advanced features for connected media players, IPTV and hybrid STBs. The SMP8672 product series also migrates to Sigma's SDK which offers a porting layer ...

Chunghwa telecom uses Sigma Designs' chipset to enable IPTV home services ...
EE Herald
Sigma Designs has announced its next generation CG2210 HomePlug AV solution for delivering IPTV services in consumer homes. Sigma Designs has said that this solution will be used by Taiwan's service provider Chunghwa Telecom.

Comcast trashes reports it's interested in BSkyB
FierceIPTV
Comcast (Nasdaq: CMCSA) Vice Chairman-CFO Michael Angelakis literally trashed a New York Times report that his company is interested in adding British ...

New B2B VOD service for Germany
Rapid tv news
German video-on-demand (VOD) provider OnDemand Deutschland and Austrian IPTV service company Ocilion IPTV Technologies have teamed up to offer ...

Pay-TV Revenues About to Peak in North America, Then Slide
Vision 2 Mobile
Although most analog cable subs will convert to digital cable, IPTV will also ... IPTV revenues will increase by a slightly higher rate to achieve $7.6 billion by ...

PeerTV gets first order for 'PeerDroid'
Stock Market Wire
The order, following the launch of the product in March at the IPTV show in London, is for a minimum value of $650000 with an option to increase it to up to ...


Crnogorski Telekom IPTV platform has 50000 subscribers
Telecompaper (subscription)
Crnogorski Telekom has announced that its IPTV platform, Extra TV, has exceeded 50000 subscribers, four and a half years after launch. In Q1 2012, the ...



Report: North American IPTV market growing, cable declining
FierceIPTV
A report from Digital TV Research predicts that 2013 will be a very good year for pay-TV revenues in North America. It will also be the point from which revenues ...

Switzerland's Sunrise Communications picks Huawei to manage its ...
IPTV News
Chinese equipment vendor Huawei has been selected by Swiss telco Sunrise Communications as its sole managed services partner for its fixed and mobile ...