French IPTV operator Iliad boosted ARPU for its Free service to E36.90 during the fourth quarter of 2008. The operator said its record ARPU figure to-date was partly down to the launch of new services, including the Multi-TV Freebox in September. It introduced two new high-definition channels, France 2 and M6, and HD content on […]

TeliaSonera had 867,000 TV subscribers, including 477,000 IPTV subscribers, at the end of last year. The IPTV base grew by 99,000 in the course of the year, while its overall TV subscriber base grew by 98,000. The company saw IPTV growth of 27,000 in the fourth quarter, including 4,000 in Sweden. Telia's Swedish IPTV base […]

Philadelphia has become the latest big city to approve a video franchise for Verizon’s FiOS TV fiber-supported service. The City Council voted unanimously to grant the telco a 15-year franchise with the expectation that Verizon will roll out the service citywide over the next seven years. Verizon said it expects to begin offering FiOS to […]

Lithuanian telco TEO has revealed that the number of subscribers to its IPTV service ‘Interactive GALA’ more than doubled during 2008 to reach 40,400 by year-end. Its DTT service, which launched in March, reached 26,300 customers by the end of 2008, and its broadband subscriber base saw an increase of 15.2 per cent during 2008 […]

Delta Partners consultants says IPTV, mobile TV and multiplay will increasingly form the new battleground for Middle East telcom firms as they see lower fixed line revenues, fixed-mobile substitution and strong mobile competition going into the future. Research Director, Mohsen Malaki, says that broadband sharing and cheap broadband alternatives are becoming a feature of the […]

France had 5.643 million IPTV subscribers by the end of September 2008, according to data published by the telecoms regulator Arcep, up 1.6 million or 39 per cent on the same period of 2007. France Telecom's ‘Orange TV’ service accounted for around 1.5 million of the total uplift ahead of Neuf Cegetel's rival 'neuf TV' […]

Profits in Korea’s market for IPTV are expected to expand nearly 10 times by 2012 following the suspension of all analogue broadcasting services in Korea later that year. Ovum have said in a report that IPTV profits in Korea will increase to over $310 million in 2012 with almost 3.5 million subscribers. Ovum includes Korea […]

Czech telco Volny has posted a message on its website stating that it is shutting down its IPTV service Volny TV. The reasons for the closure are so far unconfirmed, though it is believed to be due to poor subscription figures. ….

The ITU says its new standard will presage the day when customers can buy a box at retail pug it in. It believes this is very important as IPTV, defined by ITU-T as "multimedia services such as television/video/ audio/text/graphics/data delivered over IP-based networks managed to support the required level of quality of service (QoS)/quality of […]

Not even a global financial meltdown can stop IPTV. Despite the worldwide economic crisis, subscribers to telco TV will grow more than three-fold by the end of 2012, says In-Stat. In several key markets, like Brazil, Korea, and India, recent regulatory changes have given telco TV a real boost, the market research firm predicts. “A […]