Tele2 has launched IPTV services over its VDSL network. The service offers time-shifting, catch-up TV, live and on-demand TV, and is included as part of a triple-play package with broadband and telephony, costing €34.95 a month for the first year and €39.95 a month thereafter. Around 1 million Dutch homes are currently within the company’s […]
SFR has launched an on-demand gaming service for subscribers to its IPTV service ‘Neufbox TV’. The French telco’s service will initially offer 30 games with players using the remote control or a USB joystick offered by SFR to control the on-screen action. Subscribers also have the option to try out games for free before purchasing. […]
The Spanish competition watchdog (CNC) has approved the merger between the commercial TV channels Tele 5, controlled by Mediaset and Prisa-owned Cuatro, but has blocked the entry of Tele5 and Telefonica into the Prisa-controlled pay DTH platform Digital Plus. The decision to limit the TV deal is on the grounds that Digital Plus, with Tele […]
TalkTalk, Britain’s second largest broadband provider is preparing to launch its own television service by the middle of next year. The company is the only big ISP without its own TV service, with rivals BSkyB, BT and Virgin Media already offering TV, fixed line broadband and phone services. According to FT, the company has already […]
PeerTV, Ihe Internet TV service provider, has announced its intention to make an IPO on AIM. The Company is seeking to raise up to £6 million (E6.9m) gross in new equity capital to enable it to capitalise on the opportunities in the Internet TV market. PeerTV’s proprietary solutions enable TV service providers to deliver specific, […]
Find Any Film, an on-demand movies search website backed by the UK Film Council, has confirmed its support for new IPTV platform YouView. The site, which enables UK film fans to watch, buy, download and rent movies, sees YouView as the “first major opportunity to be on a mainstream TV platform and reach out directly […]
AT&T and Microsoft have confirmed an October 15th launch of U-verse TV on Xbox 360 for U-verse customers, which enable access to the U-verse TV experience on their existing Xbox 360s, replacing the need for an extra receiver in the home. AT&T is the first TV provider in the US to offer live TV service […]
Telefonica’s IPTV platform Movistar Imagenio continues leading the growth in Spain’s pay-TV market in terms of subscribers, whereas Sogecable-owned DTH platform Digital Plus is losing most. According to the latest report from the Spanish Telecommunications Market Commission (CMT), Movistar Imagenio captured 140,000 new subscribers to 746,000 in the second quarter of the year. It was […]
Hybrid models are best suited to making online video pay, according to panellists at MIPCOM’s ‘Online Video: To Pay Or Not To Pay’ session. According to Spirit Digital Media CEO Peter Cowley, “the hybrid model is fundamental” to the future of online video. Michael Comish CEO of Blinkbox Entertainment, noted that “colossal skill” was needed […]
Vodafone has confirmed the November launch of its IPTV service, first reported here on September 1. Vodafone Internet TV will use a hybrid DTT solution with wi-fi provided by Wyplay. Vodafone joins the other Spanish telcos in shaking up its proposition. Jazztel, pulled out of the IPTV market closing down its pay-TV platform Jazztelia TV, […]