Asia Digital TV News

LG Telecom adds 37,000 IPTV subscribers in 1Q10
May 7, 2010 – LG Telecom (Seoul:032640) has announced results for the quarter ended March 31, 2010. LG added 37,000 myLGtv IPTV subscribers in the quarter to give a total of 381,000 at the end of the period.
News categories: LG Telecom, IPTV, Korea, Results, Subscribers

SK broadband adds 27k IPTV subscribers in 1Q10
May 7, 2010 – SK broadband (KOSDAQ: 033630) has announced results for the first quarter of 2010. broad&tv IPTV subscribers were up 27,386 in the quarter to give a total of 883,387 at the end of the period.
News categories: SK broadband, IPTV, Korea, Results, Subscribers

Maxis testing IPTV in Malaysia
May 7, 2010 – Maxis Communications is conducting trials of its IPTV offering in Malaysia's Klang Valley. The company has around 50 people trying out the service.
News categories: Maxis, Digital TV, IPTV, Malaysia

VivaCell-MTS commercially launches mobile TV in Armenia
May 7, 2010 – VivaCell-MTS has announced the commercial launch of its Mobile TV service. Beginning on the May 17th subscribers will be able to watch nine TV channels in real time.
News categories: VivaCell, Armenia, Mobile

China Set-top Box Shipments Post Significant Increase in 2009
May 7, 2010 – Set-top box (STB) shipments in China increased sharply in 2009 in line with the country's higher consumption of LCD-TVs, according to iSuppli. However, STB shipments in 2010 are projected to fall approximately 10 percent.
News categories: iSuppli, China, Digital TV, Market Research, Set Top Box, Smart TV

Vietnam pay-TV in bloom
May 7, 2010 – Vietnam's pay-TV sector is one of the fastest developing markets in the Asia Pacific. While it is a comparatively small market, the opportunities are immense as the industry focuses on the dual subscription and advertising revenue streams.
News categories: CASBAA, Cable TV, Market Research, Satellite, Terrestrial, Vietnam

Liberty Global adds 286k digital cable and loses 5k DTH subscribers in 1Q10
May 6, 2010 – Liberty Global (NASDAQ: LBTYA, LBTYB and LBTYK) has announced results for the first quarter 2010. Digital cable was the strongest product with 286,000 organic additions to give 6.0 million digital cable RGUs at the end of the period.
News categories: Liberty Global, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Cable TV, Chile, Czech Republic, DVR, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, Puerto Rico, Results, Romania, Slovakia, Subscribers, Switzerland

Australia releases National Broadband Network Implementation Study
May 6, 2010 – The Australian Government has released the National Broadband Network Implementation Study. The NBN will expand the possibilities for service providers to deliver video services to end users.
News categories: DBCDE, Australia, Content Distribution, IPTV, Regulation, Streaming

StarHub adds 2k pay TV subscribers in 1Q10
May 6, 2010 – StarHub (Singapore: CC3) has announced its results for the quarter ended 31 March 2010. StarHub's, now all-digital, Pay TV customer base increased by 2,000 in the quarter to 541,000.
News categories: StarHub, Cable TV, Results, Singapore, Subscribers