Telefonica-owned IPTV service Movistar Imagenio gained 20,000 clients in the third quarter of the year bringing the total to 804,000, up four per cent on a year earlier, and breaking the loss trend experienced in the first half of the year. Globally, Telefonica reached 3.2 million pay-TV subs by the end of the third quarter, […]
Telcos in Latin America are adopting a number of strategies to counter the declining revenue from traditional voice services, the deceleration of data growth and the rising participation of cable companies in the traditional telco space (voice and broadband). Accordingly, the past few years have seen the telcos try to broaden their scope of action […]
Latin America’s seven main markets have absorbed almost 21 million set-top boxes as it adopts digital pay-TV. Latest numbers from Dataxis Online Intelligence says 20.57 million units have been supplied or bought by viewers, and this number to grow to 26.4 million by 2016. Of the above installed total, 7.4 million serve cabled homes, 12.3 […]
China Telecom has released the results of its IPTV STB tender completed in late October, which aims to satisfy the operator’s requirements through to June 2012. The top ten manufacturers participating have been selected, with the top five being chosen as “Class One” manufacturers, and the remainder as “Class Two” manufacturers. China Telecom announced its […]
Netgem has announced that Netia will start rolling out its new TV service based on Netgem’s technologies in Poland, a telecom market that was previously operated as a monopoly and has just opened to competition. Netia is bundling subscriptions offering high-speed broadband access with unlimited calls and now, using Netgem services, the Polish operator will […]
Portugal Telecom has reported 55,000 new subscribers to its pay-TV service ‘Meo’ in the third quarter of 2011 to reach 974,000 customers – adding that it expects to surpass the 1 million milestone before the end of the year. September was reported to be its best-ever month for Meo net additions, The company now holds […]
Although OTT video services are providing another competitive challenge to established cable video and satellite or IPTV offerings, market research firm Infonetics Research doesn’t expect OTT to have a significant impact on pay-TV subscribers. The firm’s Pay TV Services and Subscribers report, which forecasts and analyses the telco IPTV, cable video, and satellite video services […]
With parent company Google revealing a software update to its Google TV service, YouTube has announced the arrival of a range of channels aimed at bringing an even broader range of entertainment for the site’s users. Writing in the official YouTube blog, Robert Kyncl, Global Head of Content Partnerships, suggests that “wonderful things happen when […]
Paraguayan state-owned operator Copaco will launch its long-planned IPTV service on December 15th. The service will be available as part of a triple-play product suite, also including fixed telephony and broadband internet access. The new offering, which will be made available across the company’s existing broadband network footprint, will comprise of 90 TV channels at […]
Turkey’s AirTies has won the contract to equip Faroese Telecom with its Air 5452 IP Gateway to roll out to its subscriber base as it upgrades to a new IPTV service. The Faroese telecommunications provider selected the AirTies gateway for the launch of their IPTV service which will be rolled out in 2012. Faroese Telecom […]