IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) News

France Telecom third quarter 2008 financial information
Oct 30, 2008 – France Telecom (Paris:FTE)(NYSE:FTE) group's revenue rose to 39.854 billion euros in the first nine months. ADSL digital TV services (IPTV) had a total of 1.746 million subscribers in Europe at 30 September 2008, a 72% increase in one year.
News categories: France Telecom, France, IPTV, Poland, Results, Satellite, Spain, Subscribers

Latens secures du IPTV service as it grows to 50,000 subscribers
Oct 30, 2008 – Latens has announced that the 'du' IPTV service, secured by Latens IPCAS, has grown to over 50,000 subscribers. UAE-based du offers an innovative, multilingual IPTV service catering to the tastes of different nationalities and cultures.
News categories: Latens, 'du', Conditional Access, Digital TV, IPTV, Subscribers, UAE, Video Exchange

Chunghwa Telecom Reports First Nine Months and Third Quarter 2008 Results
Oct 30, 2008 – Chunghwa Telecom (TAIEX: 2412, NYSE: CHT) has reported its results for the third quarter of 2008. At the end of September 2008, Chunghwa had a total of 591,000 MOD subscribers, of which 82,000 were new subscriptions added during the quarter.
News categories: Chunghwa Telecom, IPTV, Results, Subscribers, Taiwan

STMicroelectronics and Arkados Announce Plans to Bring HomePlug AV System-on-Chip to Market
Oct 30, 2008 – Arkados (OTCBB: AKDS) and STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) have announced that they have reached an agreement to develop and manufacture a best-in-class 200 Mbit per second, HomePlug AV wideband powerline modem System-on-Chip (SoC).
News categories: STMicroelectronics, Arkados, IPTV, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Smart Home

Fibre To The Home (FTTH) is competitive with conventional Triple Play and already undercutting traditional ADSL+ services
Oct 29, 2008 – In a new report called FTTH Pricing in Europe 2009, Tariff Consultancy provides a unique survey of the main FTTH providers in 19 European countries - from Austria to the UK.
News categories: Tariff Consultancy, Austria, Belgium, Broadband, Czech Republic, Denmark, Digital TV, Fibre, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, IPTV, Italy, Lithuania, Market Research, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK

Telekomunikacja Polska Q3 2008 selected data
Oct 29, 2008 – Telekomunikacja Polska (Warsaw: TPS) has provided selected financial and operating data for the nine months ended September 30th, 2008. Broadband year-to-date revenue growth (+16%) was driven by the year-on-year increase of the subscriber base.
News categories: Telekomunikacja Polska, IPTV, Poland, Results, Subscribers

Investment in IPTV equipment continues despite subscriber slowdown
Oct 28, 2008 – The North American IPTV and SDV equipment market declined sharply in 2Q08, pulling the worldwide market down 5% sequentially to $1.27 billion despite healthy increases in EMEA, Asia Pacific, and CALA, reports market research firm Infonetics Research.
News categories: Infonetics Research, Cable TV, Content Distribution, Content Protection, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Middleware, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Subscribers

TeNeT connects with its customers via Appear TV's IPTV platform
Oct 28, 2008 – Appear TV and DEPS, an Appear TV regional partner, are pleased to announce the selection of Appear TV's SC2000 system as the new TeNeT IPTV head-end - the next step towards launching a commercial IPTV service in Ukraine.
News categories: Appear TV, TeNeT, DEPS, Content Distribution, Digital TV, IPTV, Ukraine

TeliaSonera January-September 2008
Oct 28, 2008 – TeliaSonera (Stockholm: TLSN) has announced its results for the period January-September 2008. The total number of TeliaSonera TV subscriptions rose to 839,000, of which 450,000 were IPTV subscriptions.
News categories: TeliaSonera, Cable TV, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, IPTV, Lithuania, Norway, Results, Subscribers, Sweden