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

Verimatrix Enters the Cable Market with VCAS for Cable IPTV
Sep 4, 2007 – Verimatrix has announced its latest content security solution VCAS™ for Cable IPTV, an innovative solution for affordable delivery of secure IPTV services over cable.
News categories: Verimatrix, GoBackTV, Cable Modem, Cable TV, Conditional Access, Content Distribution, Content Protection, DOCSIS, IBCShow, IPTV

Tiscali Targets 5 Million UK Homes With Internet TV Service
Sep 1, 2007 – Internet service provider Tiscali SpA (TIS.MI) stepped up competition in the competitive U.K. broadband market by making its Internet television service available to 5 million homes.
News categories: Broadband, Digital TV, IPTV, Subscribers, UK

WiNetworks to Demonstrate Mobile WiMAX 802.16e Solution for Broadcaters at IBC 2007 in Amsterdam
Aug 30, 2007 – WiNetworks will demonstrate at IBC 2007 a full line of mobile WiMAX 802.16e equipment specially designed for the Digital Broadcast Operator. The Win-Max(TM) family of equipment includes a compact base station, and customer premise equipment, allowing DBS and DVB-T Operators to build a complementary 802.16e mobile WiMAX based wireless network.
News categories: Broadband, IBCShow, TV Services

Deutsche Telekom presents television and mobile telephony in new dimensions
Aug 29, 2007 – Deutsche Telekom is presenting television and mobile telephony in new dimensions at the consumer electronics tradeshow Internationale Funkausstellung (IFA) in Berlin.
News categories: Broadband, Germany, IFABerlin, IPTV, Mobile

PCCW reports interim results for 2007
Aug 29, 2007 – PCCW Limited has announced stronger growth of its core telecom, media and ICT business segments in the first half of 2007 as the Company began to reap the benefits of its quadruple-play strategy. now TV's installed base was 818,000 at the end of June, up 35 percent from a year earlier.
News categories: PCCW, 5G, Broadband, Digital TV, Hong Kong, IPTV, Middleware, Mobile, Results, Subscribers

Canadian CLEC Becomes IPTV-ready with Calix C7 Platform
Aug 28, 2007 – Calix has announced that Mornington Communications Co-operative Ltd., an ILEC and CLEC in Ontario, Canada, has selected the Calix C7multiservice access platform (MSAP) and the Calix Management System (CMS) to enable a wide array of new services.
News categories: Broadband, Canada, Digital TV, Fibre, IPTV

UK benefits from communications anytime, anywhere and at a lower cost
Aug 23, 2007 – Ofcom today published its annual Communications Market Report 2007 which reveals new trends in the UK's GBP50bn electronic communications sector.
News categories: Broadband, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, IPTV, Market Research, Mobile, Satellite, Subscribers, Terrestrial, TV Services, UK

Fiber To The Home Will Bring Many Community Benefits
Aug 17, 2007 – EPB in Chattanooga has announced the initial approval of a Fiber to the Home initiative. EPB plans to fund the construction of the infrastructure with income generated by the sale of internet, video entertainment, and phone services.
News categories: Digital TV, Fibre, IPTV, USA

Embarq to Test Telco TV Service
Aug 16, 2007 – Embarq Corp. (NYSE: EQ) has announced that it will begin testing its own TV service next year.
News categories: Broadband, Digital TV, IPTV, USA