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

France Telecom 2006 preliminary unaudited annual results
Feb 1, 2007 – Rapid development of ADSL Multi-service offers with 4.1 million Liveboxes deployed in Europe at the end of 2006, 2.5 million Voice over IP customers, and 590,000 ADSL digital TV customers.
News categories: France Telecom, Earnings Release, Broadband, Digital TV, IPTV, Results, Subscribers

Sweden - Telia first with free channels and Internet surfing via television
Jan 30, 2007 – Telia is now offering its subscribers eight free television channels. Also new is that customers are being given the opportunity to surf directly on the Internet via their television.
News categories: Telia, Broadband, Digital TV, IPTV, Sweden

Verizon's 4Q 2006 Results Cap Strong Year of Organic Growth
Jan 29, 2007 – Verizon Telecom (NYSE:VZ), which serves wireline residential and small-business customers, had 207,000 FiOS TV customers at the end of its first full year of offering the service, adding 89,000 in the fourth quarter.
News categories: Verizon, Earnings Release, Broadband, Digital TV, Fibre, IPTV, Results, Subscribers, USA

US - Growth of Broadband over Power Line to outpace Cable and DSL
Jan 18, 2007 – The number of U.S. households subscribing to broadband over power line (BPL) services will increase from 400,000 in 2007 to 2.5 million by 2011, according to Parks Associates' 'FTTx and BPL: Analysis and Outlook' report.
News categories: Parks Associates, Broadband, Digital TV, Market Research, Smart Home, Subscribers, USA

46,000 Basque homes receive Euskaltel's IP TV service
Jan 18, 2007 – Over 46,000 homes in the Basque region of Spain are receiving TV using Euskaltel's ADSL-based television service.
News categories: Euskaltel, Broadband, Digital TV, IPTV, Spain, Subscribers

Russia - Sverdlovsk Region to get digital TV
Jan 15, 2007 – "Digital television is going to be introduced in Sverdlovsk Region soon. One of its unique characteristics is that it is capable of immediately receiving signals with the help of a portable digital set-top box," said the Head of Rossvyaznadzor.
News categories: Broadband, Digital TV, Russia, Set Top Box

Bulgaria - Overgas Sends Digital Television Through Pipes
Jan 12, 2007 – From February 1 along Overgas' pipes will be running digital television, phone line and Internet at the same time, Noshten Trud has informed.
News categories: Overgas, Broadband, Bulgaria, Digital TV, IPTV

Broadband-Enabled Televisions to Reach 162 Million by 2011
Jan 8, 2007 – A surge in the availability of high-quality web-based video content and the proliferation of solutions that network-enabled TVs will usher in a 'new wave' of television viewing.
News categories: The Diffusion Group, Broadband, Digital TV, Market Research, Streaming

AOL and Sony to Make AOL Video Available Through New Sony BRAVIA™ Internet Video Link
Jan 7, 2007 – AOL, a majority-owned subsidiary of Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), and Sony Electronics have announced that the companies will work together to make content from AOL Video available through Sony's new BRAVIA™ Internet Video Link, unveiled at the CES Show.
News categories: Sony Electronics, AOL, Broadband, CES2025, Digital TV, Streaming