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Telekom Austria IPTV up 50%

AonTV, Telekom Austria’s IPTV service added 55.3 per cent more subs to reach 134,000 at September. Telekom Austria said its multi-play product packages had stemmed the loss of fixed lines during the third quarter to only 1,200. Telekom Austria’s fixed-line broadband base grew by 13.9 per cent year-on-year to 1.1 million lines.  Telekom Austria posted […]

November 10, 2010

Bridge Technologies reduces TRE-FOR’s maintenance costs with monitoring system

Danish public utility company and digital service provider TRE-FOR has substantially reduced maintenance costs for its IPTV operation after deploying a Bridge Technologies monitoring and analysis system. TRE-FOR supplies broadband and digital media services to subscribers in the Southern Danish Triangle region via an all-fiber infrastructure, and with the advanced analysis provided by the VideoBRIDGE […]

November 10, 2010

Panorama the IPTV widget platform

L4 Media, the interactive media company, has unveiled Panorama, the company’s new television widget platform. Panorama is designed for IPTV and television service providers who want to make it easy for consumers to access personalised content, like Twitter and Facebook updates, weather forecasts, and sports scores, directly from their televisions. L4 Media announced that Nokia […]

November 9, 2010

Actiontec wins ‘Best Of Sunnyvale’ Award for third consecutive year

Actiontec Electronics announced that it has received a “Best of Sunnyvale” award from the U.S. Local Business Association (USLBA). Actiontec has now won this prestigious award three years in a row. According to the USLBA, less than 1 per cent of 2010 award recipients nationwide qualified as a three-time award winner. The USLBA “Best of […]

November 9, 2010

Minerva unveils xTVFusion platform

Minerva Networks, supplier of IPTV infrastructure software which powers more than 200 deployments worldwide, has unveiled a new platform for the delivery of blended Television and OTT video services to broadband subscribers on multiple screens. The new xTVFusion platform addresses the needs of Cable, Satellite and Telecom operators as well as ISPs, CLECs and Broadcasters […]

November 8, 2010

KidsCo in Greece

KidsCo, the international children’s channel, has secured a deal with Greece’s largest triple play provider, On Telecoms. KidsCo content will be available to viewers in Greece via IPTV, from November 2010.  KidsCo will broadcast its range of family-friendly programming across On Telecom’s basic package and will be available to viewers 24 hours a day 7 […]

November 8, 2010

CWC Caribbean IPTV?

UK-based Cable & Wireless Communications (CWC) is considering the launch of IPTV services across a number of the countries in which it operates in the Caribbean in the second half of its 2010/11 fiscal year. Tony Price, the company’s CEO, unveiled the plans during a conference call to discuss the company’s first financial results since […]

November 5, 2010

Portugal Telecom and Huawei test IPTV 3D

Portugal Telecom and Huawei have jointly completed the first 10G-GPON trial in Europe by demonstrating IPTV Meo service and 3DTV using the new 10G-PON system (MA 5600T platform) provided by Huawei. The standardised 10G-PON system can achieve 10Gb/s downstream bandwidth and 2.5Gb/s upstream bandwidth for future high bandwidth demanding video services, such as 3DTV. The […]

October 28, 2010

Racing UK launches on Fetch

Racing UK TV will be available via IPTV from next week following a deal between the leading horseracing channel and internet broadcast company Vision IPTV . Race fans can now receive the channel by purchasing a Freeview and Internet SmartBox from FetchTV through a heavily-discounted one-off payment. As a special joining offer, any residential customer […]

October 28, 2010

TeliaSonera IPTV growth

TeliaSonera has reported its IPTV subscriber base grew in a number of markets during the first nine months of 2010. In Sweden the company saw its IPTV customer base increase by 13,000 to reach 431,000, while VOD rentals surpassed 1.5 million in the period, compared with 1.2 million for the full year of 2009.  In […]

October 26, 2010