IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) News

TeliaSonera January-June 2008
Jul 24, 2008 – The total number of TeliaSonera (Stockholm: TLSN) TV subscriptions rose to 816,000, of which nearly 430,000 were IPTV subscriptions. In Sweden alone, the push for IPTV resulted in a year-on-year rise of 162,000 new subscriptions to 320,000.
News categories: TeliaSonera, Cable TV, Denmark, Digital TV, Estonia, Finland, IPTV, Lithuania, Norway, Results, Subscribers, Sweden

Thomson: First Half 2008 Results
Jul 24, 2008 – In 2Q08 Thomson (Paris: 18453, NYSE:TMS) shipped 2.8 million satellite set-top boxes, 1.5 million cable set-top boxes and modems/eMTAs, and 2.9 million access products for telecom operators - making a total of 7.3 million in the quarter.
News categories: Thomson, Cable Modem, Cable TV, Digital TV, Gateway, IPTV, Middleware, Results, Satellite, Set Top Box

Triple-play operators must overcome content and branding hurdles, says Analysys Mason
Jul 24, 2008 – The triple-play (voice, Internet and pay TV) market is not reaching its full potential. Content and branding issues are hampering operator strategies to increase customer numbers, according to the latest report by Analysys Mason.
News categories: Analysys Mason, Broadband, Cable TV, Denmark, Digital TV, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, IPTV, Ireland, Italy, Market Research, Norway, Spain, Subscribers, Sweden, UK

Sistema Chooses NDS Technologies to Deliver Converged IPTV and Mobile TV in Russia
Jul 24, 2008 – NDS (NASDAQ: NNDS) has announced that Russian media giant Sistema Mass Media (LSE: SSA) has selected the NDS Unified Headend™ to manage and protect TV content delivery to subscribers across both IP and mobile networks.
News categories: NDS Group, Sistema Mass Media, Digital Teleradiobroadcasting, Conditional Access, Digital TV, IPTV, Mobile, Russia

Telmex Internacional Second Quarter 2008
Jul 23, 2008 – In the second quarter the consolidated revenues of Telmex Internacional (Mexico:TELINTL; NYSE:TII) totaled 18.544 billion pesos. In Brazil, cable TV provider Net had close to 2.7 million pay TV subscribers and 1.8 million broadband Internet users.
News categories: Telmex, Brazil, Cable TV, Chile, Colombia, Digital TV, IPTV, Peru, Results, Satellite, Subscribers

AT&T Delivers Solid Second-Quarter Results
Jul 23, 2008 – AT&T (NYSE:T) U-verse TV, the company's next-generation IP-based video service, continued its strong ramp during the second quarter, with a net subscriber gain of 170,000 to reach 549,000 in service.
News categories: AT&T, Broadband, Digital TV, IPTV, Results, Subscribers, USA

Asia-Pacific Continues to Lead in FTTH Market Penetration
Jul 23, 2008 – Asia consolidated its position as the global leader in next-generation broadband while the United States and Europe also continued to experience robust growth in FTTH, according to the FTTH Councils of Asia-Pacific, Europe and North America.
News categories: FTTH Council, Broadband, China, Denmark, Fibre, Hong Kong, Iceland, IPTV, Italy, Japan, Korea, Market Research, Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, Slovenia, Subscribers, Sweden, Taiwan, USA

KPN Second Quarter Results
Jul 23, 2008 – The roll-out of KPN (Amsterdam:KPN) TV services - Digitenne and Interactive TV - accelerated during the quarter with customer numbers reaching 636k.
News categories: KPN, Digital TV, Fibre, IPTV, Mobile, Netherlands, Results, Subscribers, Terrestrial

Pay-TV Set-top Box Shipments on Target for 40% Growth
Jul 23, 2008 – Global shipments of Pay-TV Set Top Boxes (STBs) are on track to grow by nearly 40% by 2012 according to a new Industry Update Report from Futuresource Consulting.
News categories: Futuresource Consulting, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Set Top Box, Terrestrial