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UTStarcom IPTV Contract With Bureau of Radio and Television in Santai County, Sichuan Province
Nov 4, 2009 – UTStarcom (Nasdaq: UTSI) has announced a new customer deployment with the Bureau of Radio and Television of Santai County, Sichuan Province to resume their radio and television network capability following last year's traumatic earthquake.
News categories: UTStarcom, SARFT, China, Content Distribution, IPTV

Telpin to offer IPTV in Argentina in 2010
Nov 2, 2009 – La Cooperativa de Teléfonos de Pinamar (Telpin) will start offering IPTV services next year in three Argentine cities. Trials have been carried out using UTStarcom equipment, though a purchase decision has not yet been taken.
News categories: Telpin, Argentina, Content Distribution, Digital TV, IPTV, Set Top Box

Skyworth Selects Entropic Communications Ethernet-Over-Coax for China MDUs
Oct 25, 2009 – Entropic Communications (Nasdaq:ENTR) has announced that Skyworth (Hong Kong: 0751) has selected Entropic's Broadband Access solution to develop Ethernet over Coax (EoC) connectivity to multiple dwelling unit (MDU) apartments in mainland China.
News categories: Entropic Communications, Skyworth, Cable TV, China, Content Distribution, Semiconductor, Smart Home

SES Reports Solid Nine Months Core Infrastructure Performance
Oct 23, 2009 – SES (Paris, LuxX:SESG) has reported results for the nine months to 30 September 2009. No satellites were launched in the quarter, however preparations are well advanced for the launch of NSS-12 which will deliver a mix of DTH, VSAT and telecom applications.
News categories: SES S.A., Content Distribution, Results, Satellite

MRG announces new leaders in its Global IPTV Market Leaders Report
Oct 22, 2009 – MRG has announced new leaders in the Global IPTV Market Leaders Report -- October 2009 (MLR), which tracks the top 120 IPTV vendors in 24 regional sectors based on the installed base of 6 video systems products in over 800 IPTV Operations.
News categories: MRG, Content Distribution, Content Protection, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Middleware, Set Top Box

BBC and Arqiva agree UK terrestrial HD network roll out
Oct 16, 2009 – The BBC and Arqiva have announced that the agreement to upgrade the relevant parts of the UK digital terrestrial television (DTT) transmission network to DVB-T2 has been confirmed.
News categories: Arqiva, BBC, Content Distribution, Digital TV, DVB-T2, Terrestrial, UK

Open IPTV Forum makes public Release 1 Profiles Specification
Oct 8, 2009 – The Open IPTV Forum (OIPF) has announced the publication of the Profiles specification for its Release 1 Solution. This specification is accompanied by a revision (Version 1.1) of its seven-volume Release 1 IPTV Solution specification.
News categories: Open IPTV Forum, Content Distribution, Digital TV, IPTV, Middleware

Eutelsat Breaks The Barrier Of 100 HDTV Channels
Oct 7, 2009 – Eutelsat (Paris: ETL) has announced that it has broken through the barrier of 100 High-Definition TV channels broadcasting through its video satellites. The 100th channel to take to the skies was Sky Sport 1HD from the SKY Italia pay-TV platform.
News categories: Eutelsat, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Market Research, Satellite

weComm to power miniV mobile TV service in China
Oct 6, 2009 – miniV.tv, the first commercially available interactive mobile video service in China, has been set up to deliver Linear TV streams, Lottery and VOD services through mobile handsets. weComm is providing the applications software platform.
News categories: weComm, miniV.tv, China, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Mobile