Asia Digital TV News

NDS and Hathway Announce New Agreement to Accelerate Digital Cable Deployment in India
May 5, 2010 – NDS has announced that it has signed a new agreement with Hathway which will enable Hathway to rapidly accelerate deployment of digital STBs and significantly boost its digital cable TV subscriber base in India over the next 12 months.
News categories: NDS Group, Hathway, Cable TV, Conditional Access, Content Distribution, India, Middleware, Set Top Box

KT adds 140,000 Qook TV subscribers in 1Q10
May 3, 2010 – KT Corporation (KRX:030200/NYSE:KT) has released its 1st Quarter 2010 results. Qook TV IPTV subscribers reached 1.312 million at the end of March 2010, up 140,000 in the quarter.
News categories: KT Corp, IPTV, Korea, Results, Subscribers

Chunghwa Telecom Multimedia-on-Demand subscribers stable in 1Q10
Apr 30, 2010 – Chunghwa Telecom (TAIEX: 2412, NYSE: CHT) has reported results for the first quarter of 2010. At the end of the first quarter, Chunghwa had 665,000 Multimedia-On-Demand (MOD) subscribers, down from 667,000 at the end of 2009.
News categories: Chunghwa Telecom, IPTV, Results, Subscribers, Taiwan

MTS India launches MTS TV for MBlaze customers
Apr 26, 2010 – MTS, in association with Apalya Technologies, has launched MTS TV for its MBlaze customers in India. The service, with more than 60 live and VOD channels, uses its High Speed Broadband platform and is available in all 57 cities of MBlaze presence.
News categories: SSTL, Apalya, 5G, Digital TV, India, Media Player, Streaming

More Australians going digital
Apr 23, 2010 – Australia's Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy has released the latest summary figures from the Digital Tracker survey for the first quarter of 2010.
News categories: Australia, Digital TV, Market Research, Terrestrial

MTNL launches 3G mobile TV in India with Alcatel-Lucent and Aksh Optifibre
Apr 22, 2010 – Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU), in collaboration with Aksh Optifibre, has announced that it has enabled the commercial launch of MTNL's 3G-driven mobile TV services in the metro cities of Delhi and Mumbai.
News categories: Alcatel-Lucent, Aksh Optifibre, MTNL, 5G, Content Distribution, India, Mobile

APAC Pay-TV and Broadband Markets Poised For Profitable Growth
Apr 22, 2010 – Broad industry trends remain favorable in Asia's pay-TV and broadband markets, according to a new report published by Media Partners Asia (MPA). The report, entitled Asia Pacific Pay-TV & Broadband Markets 2010, says industry fundamentals are strong.
News categories: Media Partners Asia, Australia, Cable TV, China, Digital TV, DVR, India, Indonesia, IPTV, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Market Research, Satellite, Singapore, Streaming, Taiwan, Terrestrial, Thailand

SingTel mio TV celebrates 200,000 customers
Apr 21, 2010 – Singapore Telecommunications Ltd (SingTel) [Singapore: SGX; Australia: ASX] has announced that it will be celebrating its 200,000 customer milestone by offering a range of exciting treats to new and existing mio TV customers.
News categories: SingTel, IPTV, Singapore, Subscribers

Australian FetchTV Launches with Orca Interactive RiGHTv Middleware
Apr 21, 2010 – Australian based FetchTV has selected Orca Interactive to supply its RiGHTv IPTV as the middleware platform for FetchTV's wholesale subscription TV service.
News categories: Orca Interactive, FetchTV, Australia, Digital TV, DVR, IPTV, Middleware, Set Top Box