Beltelecom picks ZTE for national GPON broadband project
TeleGeography
Earlier this month CommsUpdate reported Beltelecom as saying it has completed upgrade works on its ZALA-branded IPTV service, extending support into regional centres. At the time the operator said the decision to deploy its IPTV platform in its ...

Telekom Austria re-brands IPTV service as A1, expands selection of foreign ...
TeleGeography
A1 Telekom Austria has confirmed that it has re-branded its long-running IPTV service aonTV as 'A1 Kabel TV', expanding its service to include more regional and foreign-language channels in the process. The re-branding exercise follows the telco's ...

The 2011 INTERNET TELEPHONY IPTV Excellence Award is Seeking Nominations
TMC Net
Norwalk, CT (June 1, 2011) — TMC, a global, integrated media company helping clients build communities in print, in person and online, announced today that the IPTV Excellence Award is open for entries. Presented by INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine, ...

US consumers "not rushing to cancel pay-TV services"
IPTV News
Out of those polled, almost nine in ten (88%) of households pay for their television service for at least one television in the house, with approximately half (53%) subscribing to cable TV, followed by satellite TV with 32% and IPTV with 10%. ...

 Is an Optus box coming to challenge the FoXbox 360?
iTWire
Telstra certainly hasn't been backward in ensuring as much TV, music and movie content as possible over the past few years, separate to its 50% ownership of the Foxtel service, and has even been very proactive in delivering Mobile Foxtel IPTV to its ...

HD+ adds Nickelodeon & Comedy Central
Rapid tv news - Jörn Krieger
Both channels, which are transmitted in time-sharing mode, have so far only been available on IPTV platform Entertain on Deutsche Telekom's ADSL broadband ...

Miranda Reports First Quarter 2011 Results
MarketWatch (press release)
... monitoring systems for the television broadcast, cable, satellite and IPTV industry, today reported results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2011. ...

GO prepares for TV over the internet
Times of Malta
GO selected Minerva's platform for IPTV delivery and will shortly be announcing details of the set-top boxes to be used in conjunction with IPTV. ...

Foreclosure auction for plaza set
Bennington Banner
According to a judgment order filed April 13 by Judge John Wesley, Nesher owes IPTV a total of $7833192, which includes the amount left on the principal loan, $6627372, interest in the amount of $971670, and other fees. McPhee said his clients haven't ...

 


US consumers "not rushing to cancel pay-TV services"
IPTV News 
... for at least one television in the house, with approximately half (53%) subscribing to cable TV, followed by satellite TV with 32% and IPTV with 10%. ...

Up to 100 online video and IPTV staff to go at BBC
Rapid tv news
All 250 Vision staff across production centres in London , Salford, Bristol and Birmingham will be affected, revealed Victoria Jaye, the BBC's new head of IPTV and TV Online Content which also includes the key TV & iPlayer division. ...

Telekom Austria overhauls IPTV service
IPTV News
Telekom Austria has rebranded its IPTV service under the new name 'A1 Kabel TV', and has also started expanding the service to include more regional and foreign-language channels. The telco launched its IPTV service in September 2007 with the name of ...

Telekom Austria rebrands IPTV as A1 Kabel TV
Broadband TV News
Austria's incumben telecoms operator A1 Teleom Austria has rebranded as A1 and at the same time has changed the name of its IPTV service aonTV into A1 Kabel TV. The platform is also increasing the number of channels and introducing faster zapping ...

Bouygues Telecom selects Celeno Wi-Fi tech for next-gen BBox
IPTV News
French telco Bouygues Telecom has selected Wi-Fi technology from Israeli firm Celeno for the next generation of its 'Bbox' units, which combine IPTV, broadband and telephony services. Bouygues Telecom is to incorporate Celeno's dual-band Wi-Fi module ...

IPTV revenues in MEA region to grow tenfold by 2016
IPTV News
This is expected to be particularly pronounced in Israel, where the government is pushing DTT to force down pay-TV subscription rates, according to the report. Meanwhile, the number of pay IPTV homes in the region is expected to overtake cable TV subs ...

Tivus, Inc. (TIVU) Commences Phase II Development in Hospitality IPTV Environment
IBTimes Hong Kong
“Another Tivus first, ad-supported IPTV allows hotels to migrate away from legacy video-on-demand systems,” said Prakash recently. “[Our] ad-supported, revenue-sharing business model capitalizes on new, fully interactive IPTV technology offering a ...

Swisscom eases past 500k IPTV subs milestone
IPTV News
Swisscom has reached 500000 customers for its IPTV service 'Swisscom TV', four and a half years after its launch, and has indicated that it is planning to expand and improve the service in order to sign up the next half million customers more quickly. ...

BT to embrace IPTV as it upgrades broadband network to multicast
Register
By Faultline • Get more from this author British Telecom will change the bulk of its broadband network to use multicast routers as from next year – this will mean that full IPTV services, using quality of service protocols, could then be launched for ...

Forget set top boxes, what about accessibility?
ABC Technology and Games
The way we watch television has changed dramatically with IPTV services. Unfortunately access to closed captions has not. Credit: Pgiam (iStockphoto) The ongoing political skirmish over the Federal Government's initiative to provide digital set top ...

Swisscom boosts IPTV subscribers with mobile play
Rapid tv news
The IPTV platform Swisscom TV which Switzerland's national telco Swisscom is offering on its ADSL broadband network, has reached the 500000 customer mark and will be further expanded with a mobile video offering. The service, which launched in November ...

Belarus telco extends IPTV offer
Broadband TV News
The Belarusian incumbent telco Beltelecom has completed the upgrade of its IPTV service TV ZALA, extending support into regional centres. As a result, according to Telegeography, it is now able to offer such additional services as VOD, time shifting ...

Telekom Austria expands IPTV platform
Rapid tv news
Austria's national telco A1 Telekom Austria has extended the TV line-up on the IPTV platform on its ADSL broadband network. The telco will launch twenty new channels to the basic package of A1 Kabel TV (formerly called aonTV) which now contains more ...

TIME Q1 net profit up 22% to RM23mil
Malaysia Star
Chief executive officer Afzal Abdul Rahim said during the quarter, the company inked a commercial agreement with Astro, where TIME would provide the required 100% fibre network for its IPTV delivery. “Astro B.yond IPTV bundled with TIME fibre broadband ...

Research and Markets: Austria - Digital Media Market - Overview ...
Business Wire (press release) 
Cable and DSL networks support popular demand for bundled services offerings including IPTV, VoD and interactive TV. Digital services have been available ...

Is an Optus box coming to challenge the FoXbox 360?
iTWire - Alex Zaharov-Reutt 
At least Foxtel on Xbox 360 users won't be so badly treated, they'll be suffering no “chopped off” sides but instead will see an IPTV version of Foxtel in 

Foxtel via 360 – Now quota free
Crikey (blog) - Dan Barrett 
Xbox 360 and T-Box distribution has provided flexibility in making their service available via IPTV. With an Internet and networked Xbox/T-Box,