IPTV reaching nearly 80 million worldwide, Point Topic says
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At the end of March 2013, Point Topic tracked 79.3 million worldwide IPTV subscriptions--up 3.3 million over the previous quarter and 13.7 million year-over year. The IPTV growth, the researchers said, correlated to expanded fiber and hybrid-fiber ...

Dune HD puts Hibox IPTV platform into its advanced set - tops
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Dune HD is taking the hybrid set-top box a step further by integrating Hibox Systems' IPTV platform into its connected devices to create what the two companies called a "powerful" platform for IPTV providers to deliver streaming content to consumer TVs ...

Ericsson plans to acquire Red Bee Media , continue expanding IP video focus
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Ericsson (Nasdaq: ERIC) is obviously following a planned strategy that all video is IP-based and, at the same time, all video media--traditional broadcast, wireless and IPTV--are interrelated. The latest evidence of this ongoing strategy is Ericsson's ...

Alcatel - Lucent , Telekom Austria wring 1 Gbps from existing copper
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If proven out in the real world, the ultra-high-speed capabilities would boost the prospects of building competitive triple play high-speed data, IPTV and voice services over existing copper-based telecom facilities. According to an ALU press release ...

Telco TV subscribers embracing TV Everywhere; U-verse eyes Hattiesburg, Miss.
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Vodafone's putting German pay-TV broadcaster Sky Deutschland on its the IPTV platform starting in August. Story. > Armenian fixed and mobile operator ArmenTel will be launching IPTV service 'as soon as possible', according to its incoming CEO Andrei ...

Rostelecom expands retail chain, IPTV base
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Russian national operator Rostelecom has opened two new retail outlets in Chelyabinsk. One of the shops is located in the city bus station. Rostelecom runs 56 branded shops in the Chelyabinsk region, where subscribers are provided with the full ...

Speed thrills, but IPTV growth stymied by lack of broadband availability
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I pondered that experience this week when I read reports from Point Topic that increased fiber deployments worldwide are driving more subscribers to IPTV. At the same time, Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU) said it had conducted a successful trial to deliver ...