Indian telco Bharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL) has formed an agreement with the SmarTV Group for the launch of pan-India IPTV services, following a test launch of the service in a few major cities. BSNL has plans to add 100,000 customers to its IPTV service by March 2009. The SmarTV Group, which consists of Smart Digivision […]

To coincide with its third birthday, Bluewin TV, the Swiss IPTV service, is rebranding as Swisscom TV. The product name change is part of the strengthening of the Swisscom umbrella brand which took place in 2008. Three years after its launch it has acquired over 200,000 customers.

The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) has released three newly-created IPTV standards. ATIS' IPTV Interoperability Forum (IIF) – a global player in IPTV standards development – recently completed this work. These deliverables standardise multiple areas of the IPTV ecosystem. The three released standards consider: a test plan for validating objective quality models in the […]

Telstra will begin a live trial of its new digital set-top “T-box” this week, ahead of its release in Australia. Several hundred customers will begin using the device in a trial that will enable them to start watching movies downloaded from the Internet on their TV sets. The T-box will make it possible for Telstra […]

BT Vision added just 18,000 subs in the three months to September 30, a fall of almost 50 percent on the previous quarter. And after a "data cleanse" of its customer base during Q2, the service has 436,000 users—only 3,000 more than in Q1. Unsurprisingly BT re-emphasised it has now abandoned its original target of […]

IPTV innovation has stagnated and won’t improve until the industry finds a better way to develop and deliver applications, says Brook Longdon, head of media and entertainment at Nokia Siemens Networks. “IPTV innovation is too slow, and we have to do something about that.” He stated that in eight years of discussing IPTV, the conversation […]

FetchTV SmartBoxes will be available through Carphone Warehouse branches after an agreement between the IP Vision's broadband TV service and the retail chain. The Fetch TV SmartBox combines a Freeview+ DTT PVR with its own on demand service, will be distributed in Carphone Warehouse's Digital Lifestyle stores. Earlier this year IP Vision made a deal […]

BBC executives have told the BBC Trust, which is examining the Canvas project, that its total cost over its first four years will exceed £115m (E128m) including £48m+ of marketing costs. To help attract new shareholders and spread that cost executives have proposed the stipulation that the company must be controlled by PSBs should be […]

From Sotires Eleftheriou in Paris According to the latest figures from the ARCEP, the French telecoms regulator, the number of Internet subscribers in France reached 19.4 million at the end of Q2 2009, with 18.7 million via broadband – an increase of 12 per cent in one year. The rate of growth has nevertheless slowed […]

The BBC has confirmed that it will start beta testing its popular iPlayer service on Freesat from the end of this month. BBC's iPlayer debuted on Virgin Media's cable service last year, but this will be the first subscription-free platform to get the fully-fledged version of iPlayer. ….