IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) News

MRG IPTV Report Mixes Continued Growth with Volatility
Apr 13, 2009 – MRG has announced new leaders in the Global IPTV Market Leaders Report - March 2009. Continuing growth of subscribers is reflected by increased deployments of IPTV products in Europe, Asia, Rest of World, and especially in North America.
News categories: MRG, Content Protection, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Middleware, Set Top Box

Russia's North-West Telecom has 6,000 IPTV subscribers
Apr 9, 2009 – North-West Telecom has announced that its broadband subscriber base has exceeded 700,000. In December 2007, N.W.Telecom was one of the first companies in Russia to launch IPTV commercially and now has almost 6,000 connections.
News categories: North-West Telecom, Avangard, Fibre, IPTV, Russia, Subscribers

Magna releases DVR, VOD and Broadband Quarterly Report
Apr 9, 2009 – Magna (NYSE: IPG) is forecasting that by 2014 end U.S. DVR subscriber households will reach 51.1 million (43% of TV households), up from 29.8 million (27% of TV households) as of the end of 2008.
News categories: Magna, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Subscribers, USA

Comstar-United Telesystems OJSC Financial Results For 2008
Apr 9, 2009 – COMSTAR-UTS (LSE: CMST) has announced its results for 2008. In Moscow the number of broadband pay-TV subscribers was 145,000 and the number of pay-TV subscribers in the regions was 153,000. STREAM-TV's pay-TV subscriber base reached 1.8 million.
News categories: COMSTAR, Cable TV, IPTV, Results, Russia, Subscribers

Otelco extends IPTV franchise in Alabama
Apr 8, 2009 – The Arab City Council has approved a franchise agreement with Otelco to provide IPTV services in the Alabama city. Otelco has been offering IPTV in nearby Blountsville since December 2008.
News categories: Otelco, IPTV, USA

Australia plans National Broadband Network
Apr 7, 2009 – The Australian Government has announced the establishment of a new company to build and operate a new super fast National Broadband Network to connect 90 percent of Australian homes, schools and workplaces with broadband at speeds up to 100Mbps.
News categories: Australia, Broadband, Fibre, IPTV

Asia Pacific pay TV to be worth more than USD40 billion by 2014
Apr 7, 2009 – New research, recently published by Informa Telecoms & Media, shows that 44% of TV homes in the Asia Pacific region will receive digital signals in 2014, up from just 17% at the end of 2008.
News categories: Informa Telecoms & Media, Asia, Cable TV, China, Digital TV, India, IPTV, Japan, Market Research, Satellite, Subscribers

Half of UK TV households choosing pay TV
Apr 6, 2009 – Almost half of all television households in the UK are now choosing to pay for access to additional television channels, with satellite and cable services driving growth of digital TV according to new research from Ofcom.
News categories: Ofcom, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Set Top Box, Smart TV, Subscribers, Terrestrial, UK

Telekom Malaysia IPTV in Q4 this year
Apr 4, 2009 – Telekom Malaysia (TM) is preparing to launch IPTV in the fourth quarter of this year, under the Hypp.TV brand name. TM already has a trial version of the service in Kulim involving 10,000 households.
News categories: Telekom Malaysia, Digital TV, Fibre, IPTV, Malaysia