According to research by Informa Telecoms & Media, global fixed broadband subscriptions stood at 422 million at the end of 2008, adding nearly 68 million subscriptions in the year and 16 million in the final quarter. The biggest access technology remains DSL (65 per cent of the total), but FTTH (11 per cent) registered its […]
ISP Logosoft has launched the first IPTV service in Bosnia and Herzegovina, called Super TV. Delivered over DSL, the service will initially be available in the New Sarajevo area, before being extended to other parts of Sarajevo. Super TV currently offers 33 TV channels as well as EPG and VoD services, and there are plans […]
Communications market research firm Infonetics Research has released the fourth quarter (4Q08) edition of its IPTV and Switched Digital Video Equipment, Services, and Subscribers report. Jeff Heynen, Directing Analyst, Broadband and Video, Infonetics Research, said that with service providers around the world countering decreasing revenue by cutting capex, one would assume video equipment providers would […]
Advanced Digital Broadcast (ADB), supplier of technology to the global digital television industry, has been accepted as a member of the Open IPTV Forum. The Forum is an industry organisation working on "Open Standards" for end to end IPTV solutions.
The Swiss operator is immediately adding the new channels nine of which will be English-language channels from the UK. They include BBC Three, BBC Four, CBBC, Cbeebies, Five, E4, More 4, ITV 3 and ITV. German channels ZDF Infokanal and Eins Extra will also join the line-up, along with Austrian music channel gotv, Bibel TV […]
According to German press reports Deutsche Telekom is having chronic technical problems with its IPTV platform T-Home Entertain. News magazine Stern says internal documents show call centres and technicians are having to deal with a tidal wave of complaints. The main problem seems to be poor pictures with latency and drop outs with the disruption […]
The market for IPTV services in Germany will grow more strongly over the next five years than previously predicted, according to a study by consulting company Detecon International, which adds that Germany can expect to cross the 5 million user threshold as early as 2013. The prediction is based on current analyses of subscriber figures […]
Experts predict a weak economic atmosphere through 2010. With this in mind, Frost & Sullivan revised the previous year’s growth forecast of a 3-year CAGR 29 per cent downwards to less than 15 per cent. “A disappointing IPTV performance is not the end of the road for Telecom incumbents but it has spurred new service […]
Anevia, a video service infrastructure provider, and Vianeos an IPTV middleware provider, have confirmed the deployment of their IPTV solution at French Grenoble "Stade des Alpes" stadium. Vincent Meddour, Anevia Sales Manager comments: "Grenoble stadium is one of the first sport players to innovate with a new technology. IPTV perfectly suits professional sport values: strong […]
UK telco BT has revealed that it has garnered 398,000 subscribers for its IPTV service ‘BT Vision’ in the fourth quarter of 2008, up from 340,000 subscribers at the end of the previous quarter. The group also saw an increasing number of its new customers subscribing to one or more of its on-demand programming packages. […]