IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) News

US on Track to Surpass 5 Million Telco TV Subs in 2009
Oct 21, 2009 – AT&T and Verizon are expected to post double-digit IPTV subscriber growth in their respective third quarter releases, according to analyst firm Strategy Analytics.
News categories: Strategy Analytics, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Subscribers, USA

Meo surpasses 500 thousand customers
Oct 21, 2009 – Portugal Telecom (Lisbon: PTC; NYSE: PT) has announced that Meo, its pay-TV service, surpassed 500 thousand customers, representing circa 64% of PT's ADSL customers and 19% of its traffic generating lines, at the end of 2Q09.
News categories: Portugal Telecom, Digital TV, Fibre, IPTV, Portugal, Satellite, Subscribers

LG Dacom adds 83,000 IPTV subscribers in 3Q09
Oct 20, 2009 – LG Dacom has announced results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2009. Dacom added 83,000 myLGtv IPTV subscribers in the quarter to give a total of 248,000 at the end of the period.
News categories: LG Dacom, myLGtv, IPTV, Korea, Results, Subscribers

Trenque Lauquen trials IPTV with Amino
Oct 19, 2009 – The Cooperativa de Electricidad de Trenque Lauquen in Argentina is conducting IPTV trials in 15 homes with MPEG-4 set-top boxes from Amino Communications (LSE: AMO).
News categories: Amino, Cooperativa de Electricidad de Trenque Lauquen, Argentina, Digital TV, IPTV, Set Top Box

MTS Allstream Launches Canada's First Whole Home PVR
Oct 19, 2009 – MTS Allstream has launched Canada's first Whole Home personal video recorder (PVR). This new and more advanced PVR is capable of recording up to three programs at the same time and playing back programs from any connected TV in the home.
News categories: MTS Allstream, Kelvin Shepherd, Canada, Digital TV, DVR, IPTV, Set Top Box, Smart Home

Motorola supplies du with latest IPTV Set-top Boxes
Oct 18, 2009 – Motorola (NYSE: MOT) has announced that its Home & Networks Mobility business has supplied UAE telecommunications provider, du, with state-of-the-art VIP series IPTV set-top boxes.
News categories: Motorola, 'du', Digital TV, IPTV, Set Top Box, UAE

TEO LT passes 90k TV subscriber mark
Oct 16, 2009 – TEO LT (Vilnius:TEO1L) has released its third quarter 2009 results. During the last 12 months the number of TV service (IPTV and DTT) users almost doubled and at the end of September amounted to 91.7 thousand.
News categories: TEO LT, IPTV, Lithuania, Results, Subscribers, Terrestrial

More than 700 on-demand audiovisual services available in Europe
Oct 16, 2009 – The European Audiovisual Observatory and the Direction du développement des médias (France) have published a new study entitled Video on Demand and Catch-Up Television in Europe.
News categories: European Audiovisual Observatory, DDM, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cable TV, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Digital TV, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, IPTV, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Market Research, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Satellite, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Terrestrial, Turkey, UK

IPTV and DTT - The rise of Free-to-air and Customized TV Experiences
Oct 13, 2009 – The IMS Research study 'IPTV: A Global Market Analysis' reveals that nearly 13% of total worldwide IP set-top box (STB) shipments in 2008 were operator deployed IP+DTT STBs.
News categories: IMS Research, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Set Top Box, Terrestrial