IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) News

SK broadband broad&tv subscribers down 19.3k in Q1
May 6, 2009 – SK broadband (KOSDAQ: 033630) has announced results for the First Quarter of 2009. broad&tv IPTV subscribers were down 19.3 thousand in the quarter, and down 126.3 thousand year-on-year, to give 756,092 at quarter-end.
News categories: SK broadband, IPTV, Korea, Results, Subscribers

Pay-TV Subscribers Worldwide Will Continue to Grow in 2009
May 6, 2009 – Pay-TV subscribers are expected to grow by 8 percent in 2009 to reach nearly 733 million worldwide despite the challenging economic environment, according to the first quarter update of the Media Forecast from Pyramid Research.
News categories: Pyramid Research, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Mobile, Satellite, Subscribers, Terrestrial

Entone Teams With VUDU To Deliver Online Video To Telcos
May 5, 2009 – Entone has announced the integration of VUDU's internet entertainment platform with Entone's media hubs allowing Entone's telco customers to supplement their broadcast and DVR services with VUDU's library of more than 14,000 movie and TV titles.
News categories: Entone, VUDU, Content Distribution, Digital TV, IPTV, Set Top Box, Streaming

37% of France's ADSL subscribers have TV-over-DSL
May 4, 2009 – France's telecoms authority, ARCEP, has published its latest market survey up to the end of the fourth quarter 2008. At the end of the period, 37% of ADSL subscribers, or 6.2 million, were also subscribing to TV-over-DSL.
News categories: ARCEP, Broadband, Digital TV, France, IPTV, Subscribers

Motorola Reports First-Quarter Financial Results
Apr 30, 2009 – Motorola (NYSE: MOT) has reported sales of $5.4 billion in the first quarter of 2009. Motorola's Home and Networks Mobility segment shipped more than 4.3 million digital entertainment devices in the quarter.
News categories: Motorola, Cable TV, DVR, IPTV, Middleware, Results, Set Top Box

Croatia's MAXtv subscribers up 167.9% to 150,953
Apr 30, 2009 – T-Hrvatski Telekom (London: THTC; Zagreb: HT-R-A) has announced results for the first three months of 2009. MAXtv, the Group's TV service, increased subscriber numbers by 167.9%, ending the first quarter of 2009 with 150,953 subscribers.
News categories: T-Hrvatski Telekom, Croatia, IPTV, Results, Subscribers

2.5 million digital TV customers for France Telecom
Apr 29, 2009 – France Telecom (Paris & NYSE: FTE) has released its first quarter 2009 results. The company had 2.5 million digital TV (ADSL and satellite) customers at 31 March 2009, a year-on-year increase of 75%.
News categories: France Telecom, France, Gateway, IPTV, Poland, Results, Satellite, Spain, Subscribers

Chunghwa has 686,000 Multimedia-On-Demand subscribers
Apr 29, 2009 – Chunghwa Telecom (TAIEX: 2412, NYSE: CHT) has reported its operating results for the first quarter of 2009. As of the end of the quarter, Chunghwa had 686,000 Multimedia-On-Demand (MOD) subscribers, equivalent to a 57.6% year-over-year increase.
News categories: Chunghwa Telecom, IPTV, Results, Subscribers, Taiwan

128k IPTV subscribers for Telefonica O2 Czech Republic
Apr 28, 2009 – Telefónica O2 Czech Republic has announced its results for the first quarter of 2009. The total number of reported O2TV customers reached 128 thousand at the end of the quarter, up by 46.6% yoy.
News categories: Telefónica O2 Czech Republic, Czech Republic, IPTV, Results, Subscribers