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Brazil: MultTV partners with MwareTV

MwareTV, a cloud-based multi-tenant TV platform, has announced the formation of a new partnership with shared services provider MultTV. Based in Brazil, MultTV will offer MwareTV’s IPTV/OTT platform to its Brazilian ISPs as well as other service providers. MwareTV’s new platform will enable ISPs to launch their own TV service with a fully customised interface. […]

October 18, 2021

Vewd, Vestel SaaS-based Operator TV solution

OTT software solutions provider Vewd and TV manufacturer Vestel have introduced the Vewd Operator TV, a fully-featured Smart TV with a built-in, content-enriched pay-TV experience which they say will allow operators to win the retail Smart TV landscape. Rather than up-selling pay-TV services through a separate set-top box, or competing alongside other apps inside hard-to-discover […]

October 14, 2021By Colin Mann

Netgem TV, Gusto TV partnership

Telco TV specialist Netgem TV is partnering with culinary-focused TV service Gusto TV, with the programmer launching the channel in the UK and Ireland across Netgem TV’s footprint of Ultrafast Fibre ISPs. “Netgem TV guarantees the best viewing experience possible by uniting all the linear and VoD content users want into one easy-to-use interface,” notes […]

October 14, 2021By Colin Mann

Netgem powers TalkTalk TV 4K

Telco TV specialist Netgem is to supply Netgem TV, its multi-screen operated entertainment platform, to UK multiplay telco TalkTalk Group for the launch of the operator’s next generation TalkTalk 4K TV service. TalkTalk intends to be at the heart of Britain’s plans for Full Fibre, offering the best user experience for connected TV and streaming […]

October 12, 2021By Colin Mann

Analysis: US pay-TV to take $33bn cord-cutting hit

Video cord-cutting is expected to strip nearly $33.6 billion (€29.6bn) in annual revenue from traditional US multichannel services in the five-year outlook, according to analysis from Kagan. The impact of the migration of consumers from big subscription services, according to Kagan’s latest forecast for cable, direct broadcast satellite and telco multichannel revenue, is charting a […]

October 7, 2021

US Court levies $7m IPTV piracy judgement

The International Broadcaster Coalition Against Piracy (IBCAP) has confirmed that the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas entered a Final Judgment and Permanent Injunction against Universe IPTV and its individual owners. The Court found that the individual defendants – Mohamed Omar, Hossam Abd Elghany, and Moustafa Maatouk – owned and operated […]

October 7, 2021By Colin Mann

TiVo brings IPTV platform to TIGO customers in LatAm

TiVo, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Xperi, is introducing TiVo’s IPTV platform to Latin American subscribers of Tigo, provider of fixed and mobile services in Latin America. Tigo ONEtv subscribers will now be able to quickly find, watch and enjoy the content they want with TiVo’s user interface, across all their devices. TiVo’s IPTV platform is […]

October 6, 2021

Study: SVoDs raise US customer expectations

As options for streaming services increase, so do customer expectations of those services, according to the J.D. Power 2021 U.S. Residential Television Service Provider Satisfaction Study. Streaming services provide cost-effective, personalised and convenient content, which effectively compete against traditional TV providers. Additionally, the study finds that satisfaction with cost of service among residential television customers […]

September 24, 2021

Pure Telecom launches Pure TV

In a first of its kind move in the Irish ISP market, Irish multiplay telco Pure Telecom is launching TV services, aiming to improve its reach, ARPU and customer tenure through aggressively-positioned Fibre and TV bundles. TV-as-a-Service provider Netgem TV will be powering Pure TV, which will leverage Netgem’s smart solutions for ISPs. Netgem partners […]

September 21, 2021By Colin Mann

CSG enhances ZEE5’s entertainment experiences

Customer engagement solutions specialist CSG has reinforced its relationship with Indian OTT streaming service platform ZEE5. Using CSG’s customer data platform, ZEE5 integrates its customer data with a single, unified platform that takes a data-driven approach to create what CSG describes as exceptional customer experiences. Easier and faster access to customer data worldwide generates comprehensive […]

September 14, 2021By Colin Mann