Advanced Television

IPTV

Good growth for multi-screen services

MRG reports that the global IPTV market will grow to $49 billion in service revenues and 113 million subscribers in 2015 as multi-screen video usage drives wireless services to new highs. Systems revenue for the seven key CapEx IPTV products analysed will grow to $4.8 billion in 2015, with STBs (set-top boxes) representing about 60 […]

August 10, 2011

Farncombe designs user experience for Digiturk

Farncombe, a provider of specialist consultancy and services to the digital TV industry, has announced that its design practice, WeAreAka, played a key role in the creation of an advanced electronic programme guide (EPG) and user interface for the forthcoming hybrid digital TV platform provided by Turkish platform operator Digiturk. WeAreAka designed the user interface […]

August 9, 2011

History joins Romtelecom platform

History will further expand its footprint in Romania, launching this week with major player Romtelecom. The channel is available to Romtelecom subscribers on its DTH and IPTV Extra and Maxim packages. History is programmed and operated in Romania by AETN UK, a joint venture between A+E Networks and BSkyB.

August 9, 2011

Deutsche Telekom profits slump, IPTV dwindles

Deutsche Telekom has reported a big fall in its profits as a result of restructuring costs and poor results from its Greek businesses. Net profit for the three months to the end of June were €348 million, 26.7 per cent down on the same period last year. Restructuring costs came from putting T-Mobile UK into […]

August 4, 2011

AT&T dumps ESPN 3D

The path to 3DTV is looking increasingly rocky. US giant telco AT&T has decided to drop ESPN’s 3D sports channel from its line-up. ESPN’s various HD channels stay on offer on AT&T’s U-verse system. AT&T asked viewers for an extra $10 a month for the 3D feed. Somewhat confusingly, AT&T says it remains committed to […]

August 3, 2011By Chris Forrester

Telekom Srbija selects Entone for IPTV rollout

Entone, a provider of Connected Home solutions, has announced that its Amulet HD IPTV Receiver with DVR capabilities has been chosen by Telekom Srbija for its national HD IPTV rollout. Telekom Srbija is the largest telecom operating company in Serbia. The operator has been progressive in deploying next-generation technologies to enable a full line-up of […]

August 3, 2011

eircom plans €100m fibre rollout and IPTV launch

Irish telco eircom has announced Phase 1 of a plan to upgrade significantly Ireland’s telecommunications infrastructure by rolling out fibre-based access technologies delivering superfast broadband to customers. Separately, the company also announced it will launch television services in 2012. The company intends to serve 100,000 premises by summer 2012 in Phase 1 of a planned […]

July 28, 2011By Colin Mann

BT Vision 600, 000+ subs

BT has surpassed 600,000 subscribers for its BT Vision hybrid DTT/IPTV service it confirmed in its Q2 results – up from 575,000 customers three months previously. The UK telco also added 71,000 customers to its superfast broadband service ‘BT Infinity’ in the second quarter of 2011, bringing the total to over 200,000, and its superfast […]

July 28, 2011

Spain: 5m+ pay-TV subs

Spain’s pay-TV market has surpassed the 5 million-subscription mark mainly as a result of the significant growth of mobile TV. As of the end of March, the number of mobile TV subscribers grew by 28 per cent to 638,340 an amount that is added to 4,394,441 clients to the traditional pay-TV platforms, reaching a total […]

July 27, 2011From David Del Valle in Madrid

Foxtel considers ACCC legal action

Australian pay-TV operator Foxtel will consider taking legal action against the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) if it is unsuccessful in overturning the regulator’s preliminary view that its A$1.9 billion acquisition of regional pay-TV group Austar is anti-competitive (see ‘Regulator raises Foxtel Austar bid concerns’, July 22). Foxtel chief executive Kim Williams contends that […]

July 25, 2011By Colin Mann