Broadband (xDSL, DOCSIS, WiMax, FTTH, …) News

Asia-Pacific Continues to Lead in FTTH Market Penetration
Jul 23, 2008 – Asia consolidated its position as the global leader in next-generation broadband while the United States and Europe also continued to experience robust growth in FTTH, according to the FTTH Councils of Asia-Pacific, Europe and North America.
News categories: FTTH Council, Broadband, China, Denmark, Fibre, Hong Kong, Iceland, IPTV, Italy, Japan, Korea, Market Research, Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, Slovenia, Subscribers, Sweden, Taiwan, USA

KPN Second Quarter Results
Jul 23, 2008 – The roll-out of KPN (Amsterdam:KPN) TV services - Digitenne and Interactive TV - accelerated during the quarter with customer numbers reaching 636k.
News categories: KPN, Digital TV, Fibre, IPTV, Mobile, Netherlands, Results, Subscribers, Terrestrial

Eesti Telekom Reports 2nd Quarter and First Half 2008
Jul 18, 2008 – The number of Elion triple-package users increased by 4,200 in the quarter, reaching 62.8 thousand as of 30 June. By the end of the second quarter, Elion had 67.7 thousand IP and cable television clients (30 June 2007: 39.5 thousand).
News categories: Elion, Eesti Telekom, Broadband, Cable TV, Digital TV, Estonia, IPTV, Results, Subscribers

Infineon Announces World's First DSL CPE Solution Supporting Concurrent Erasure Decoding and Retransmission for High Quality IPTV
Jul 15, 2008 – Infineon Technologies (FSE/NYSE: IFX) has announced enhancements to its portfolio of ADSL2+ and VDSL2 solutions for customer premise equipment (CPE) that optimize support for such applications as IPTV.
News categories: Infineon, KTL Laboratories, BBWF, Broadband, CPE, IPTV, Semiconductor, Software

Set-top box to cut energy consumption
Jul 15, 2008 – AUSTRALIAN researchers are developing a consumer-friendly set-top box to reduce energy consumption by data centres.
News categories: Australia, Broadband, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Europe, Set Top Box, Streaming

IPTV Deployments Double For The Second Year Running As Broadband Continues To Achieve Strong Growth
Jul 15, 2008 – The Broadband Forum has announced the latest Broadband and IPTV statistics. The report shows that IPTV subscribers have more than doubled for the second year running with an increase of 53.14 percent in the 12 months to 31 March 2008.
News categories: Broadband Forum, Point Topic, BBWF, Broadband, Digital TV, DOCSIS, Fibre, IPTV, Market Research, Subscribers

Etisalat and France Telecom agree on a partnership covering strategic technological and marketing fields
Jul 2, 2008 – Etisalat and France Telecom (Euronext Paris: FTE) have announced their intention to collaborate in a number of fields of strategic importance for the telecommunications industry, notably in home services, content, as well as international networks.
News categories: Etisalat, France Telecom, Digital TV, Fibre, IPTV, Set Top Box, Smart Home, UAE

AT&T to stop marketing DISH Network programming services
Jul 1, 2008 – DISH Network (Nasdaq: DISH) has received a notice of termination from AT&T (NYSE:T) of the agreement under which AT&T markets DISH Network programming services. As a result, the Commercial Agreement will terminate on December 31, 2008.
News categories: DISH Network, AT&T, Broadband, Digital TV, Satellite, USA

Seven brings the TiVo HD DVR to Australia
Jul 1, 2008 – Seven Media (ASX: SEV) and TiVo (NASDAQ: TIVO) are to launch TiVo in Australia. Under the agreement, Seven has created the digital platform to enable TiVo's digital video recorder and service, including the award-winning TiVo user interface.
News categories: TiVo Inc, Seven Media Group, Australia, Broadband, Digital TV, DVR, Set Top Box, Streaming, Terrestrial