IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) News

BT Group plc Results For The Third Quarter To 31 December 2008
Feb 12, 2009 – BT Group (LSE:BT.A)(NYSE:BT) revenue of £5,437m was 5% higher in the quarter, benefiting from favourable foreign exchange movements of £198m and the impact of acquisitions. The BT Vision customer base has now reached more than 398,000 customers.
News categories: BT Vision, IPTV, Results, Subscribers, Terrestrial, UK

Ericsson launches Connected Home Gateway software enabling multimedia services to the home
Feb 12, 2009 – Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) has launched its Connected Home Gateway software, giving consumers the freedom to access and interact with their home multimedia devices, services and media, wherever they are.
News categories: Ericsson, Gateway, IPTV, Middleware, MWC24, Smart Home

Iliad (Free) 2008 Revenues
Feb 12, 2009 – Iliad Group (Paris: ILD)'s 2008 consolidated revenues were €1,565 million, a 29% increase compared to 2007. Free gained 485,000 new subscribers, net of churn, to a total of 3,389,000 subscribers at the end of 2008.
News categories: Iliad, France, IPTV, Results, Subscribers

Verizon FiOS Challenges DIRECTV as HDTV Leader, Analysis Shows
Feb 10, 2009 – DIRECTV continues to offer the most high-definition channels of any pay TV provider, but Verizon is catching up quickly with its FiOS TV service, according to a new analysis by market research provider Pike & Fischer.
News categories: Pike & Fischer, Cable TV, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, USA

TEO revenues grew by 4.1 per cent up to LTL 826 million over the year 2008
Feb 10, 2009 – TEO LT (Vilnius:TEO1L) has announced results for the twelve months of 2008. The number of IPTV users increased by 2.3 times and reached almost 40.4 thousand. The number of customers using the DVB-T service was 26.3 thousand at the end of the year.
News categories: TEO LT, IPTV, Lithuania, Results, Subscribers, Terrestrial

SingTel Group's results for the third quarter and nine months ended 31 December 2008
Feb 10, 2009 – SingTel (Singapore: SGX; Australia: ASX) has announced its unaudited results for the third quarter and nine months ended 31 December 2008. In the quarter, 13,000 new customers signed up for mio TV, bringing its total customer base to 59,000.
News categories: SingTel, IPTV, Results, Singapore, Subscribers

conn-x TV - Television From OTE!
Feb 9, 2009 – With 'take control' as its motto, OTE (ASE: HTO, NYSE: OTE) presents conn-x TV. An innovative service for watching Greek and Foreign TV channels as well as films on demand, is offered for the first time in a wide scale in Greece.
News categories: OTE Group, Digital TV, Greece, IPTV

Motorola CCE Enables CODETEL to Launch Innovative Pay TV Service
Feb 9, 2009 – Motorola (NYSE: MOT) has announced that CODETEL has selected Motorola's Communications Convergence Engine (CCE) to launch a new wave of innovative Pay TV service offerings in the Caribbean.
News categories: Motorola, CODETEL, América Móvil, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Dominican Republic, IPTV

SK Broadband achieves sales of KRW 1861.4 Billion in 2008
Feb 6, 2009 – SK Broadband (formerly Hanarotelecom) [KOSDAQ: 033630] has announced results for the fourth quarter of 2008. broad&tv IPTV subscribers were up 6,782 in the quarter, though down 31.8 thousand year-on-year, giving 775,407 at year-end.
News categories: SK Broadband, IPTV, Korea, Results, Subscribers