IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) News

Bell TV Canada adds 20k subscribers in 1Q10
May 6, 2010 – BCE Inc. (TSX, NYSE: BCE) has reported BCE and Bell results for the first quarter of 2010. Total TV subscribers increased by 19,889 this quarter. At the end of the quarter, there were 1,968,766 TV subscribers.
News categories: BCE Inc, Canada, IPTV, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

Multimedia Polska adds 1.7k digital TV subscribers in Q1"²10
May 6, 2010 – The Multimedia Polska Group (Warsaw:MMP) has published its report for the three months ended 31 March 2010. At the end of the quarter the Group had 108,100 digital television subscribers in both technologies (DTV and IPTV).
News categories: Multimedia Polska, Cable TV, IPTV, Poland, Results, Subscribers

Consolidated Communications adds 1,800 IPTV subscribers in 1Q10
May 6, 2010 – Consolidated Communications (Nasdaq:CNSL) has reported results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2010. Broadband products grew at a strong pace in the quarter with IPTV increasing by 1,800 to 24,900 subscribers.
News categories: Consolidated Communications, IPTV, Results, Subscribers, USA

Portugal Telecom meo TV adds 65k subscribers in 1Q10
May 6, 2010 – Portugal Telecom (Lisbon: PTC; NYSE: PT) has announced results for its first quarter ended 31 March 2010. In 1Q10 pay-TV accounted for 65 thousand net additions, bringing total pay-TV customers to 646 thousand (up by 68.1% y.o.y).
News categories: Portugal Telecom, DVR, IPTV, Metaverse, Portugal, Results, Satellite, Streaming, Subscribers

Australia releases National Broadband Network Implementation Study
May 6, 2010 – The Australian Government has released the National Broadband Network Implementation Study. The NBN will expand the possibilities for service providers to deliver video services to end users.
News categories: DBCDE, Australia, Content Distribution, IPTV, Regulation, Streaming

Swisscom TV adds 45k subscribers in 1Q10
May 5, 2010 – Swisscom (Swiss: SCMN) has released its 2010 first quarter results. The number of Swisscom TV customers almost doubled in the space of a year to 275,000 at the end of March 2010, up 45,000 in the quarter.
News categories: Swisscom, Fastweb, IPTV, Italy, Results, Subscribers, Switzerland

Iliad (Free/Alice) adds 48k ADSL subscribers in 1Q10
May 5, 2010 – At 31 March 2010, the Iliad Group (Paris: ILD) totalled more than 4.5 million ADSL subscribers, including 3,866,000 subscribers registered under the Free brand and 638,000 subscribers under the Alice brand.
News categories: Iliad, France, IPTV, Results, Subscribers

Canal Digital DTH and Cable TV subscribers down 14,000 in 1Q10
May 5, 2010 – Telenor (Oslo:TEL) has released results for the first quarter of 2010. The number of Canal Digital DTH subscribers decreased by 6,000, and the number of cable TV subscriptions decreased by 8,000 during the quarter.
News categories: Telenor, Cable TV, Denmark, IPTV, Norway, Results, Satellite, Subscribers, Sweden, Terrestrial

47% of DSL subscribers in France had TV-over-DSL at the end of 2009
May 5, 2010 – France's telecoms authority, ARCEP, has published its latest market survey up to the end of the second quarter 2009.At the end of the period, 44% of ADSL subscribers, or 7.7 million, were also subscribing to TV-over-DSL.
News categories: ARCEP, Broadband, Digital TV, France, IPTV, Market Research, Subscribers