IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) News

Broadcasters Focus on Mobile TV & IPTV at IBC 2007
Aug 8, 2007 – The roles of mobile TV and IPTV relative to traditional broadcast TV are set to be thoroughly debated when 45,000 broadcasters and film-makers gather for IBC 2007 in Amsterdam, September 6-11.
News categories: Digital TV, IBCShow, IPTV, Mobile, Netherlands

Sumitomo Electric Networks Licenses Additional Espial® Evo® IPTV Application for Next Generation Set-Top Box
Aug 7, 2007 – Espial® Group (TSX: ESP) has announced that Sumitomo Electric, a leading supplier of broadband access equipment in Japan, has licensed an additional application of Espial's Evo IPTV Service Platform for use with Sumitomo's IPTV set-top boxes (STBs).
News categories: Digital TV, IPTV, Japan, Middleware, Set Top Box

Multimedia Polska Financial Report For 2Q07
Aug 7, 2007 – Multimedia Polska's digital television service provided over PSTN networks (IPTV) had some 2,800 subscribers at the end of the second quarter. The digital television service provided over cable networks (DTV) was taken up by some 2,000 customers.
News categories: Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Poland, Results, Subscribers

UTStarcom RollingStream IPTV Solution Tops 310,500 Live Commercial Subscribers in China
Aug 7, 2007 – UTStarcom (Nasdaq: UTSI) has announced that the company's award-winning RollingStream(TM) end-to-end IPTV solution currently supports more than 310,500 live subscribers in 19 commercial deployments with both China Telecom and China Netcom with a total system capacity of nearly 625,000 subscribers between the two operators.
News categories: China, Digital TV, IPTV, Subscribers

SureWest Reports Second Quarter 2007 Results
Aug 7, 2007 – SureWest (NASDAQ: SURW) video RGUs increased 19% year-over-year, to 21,118 in the second quarter of 2007 from 17,759 in the second quarter of 2006, and increased 3% quarter-over-quarter from 20,445 in the first quarter of 2007.
News categories: SureWest, Digital TV, IPTV, Results, Subscribers, USA

hanarotelecom's 2Q net income turned positive in 2 years
Aug 7, 2007 – hanarotelecom has announced its results for the 2nd quarter of 2007. The number of hanaTV subscribers exceeded 500,000 and hanaTV revenues recorded KRW 7.7 billion in the 2nd quarter, more than double the revenues of the previous quarter.
News categories: Digital TV, IPTV, Korea, Results, Subscribers

Telenet announces First Half 2007 results
Aug 6, 2007 – By the end of the first half of 2007, Telenet (Euronext Brussels: TNET) had a total of 348,000 subscribers taking one or more premium television services, including 309,000 iDTV subscribers, 33,000 Prime customers (on the former Canal+ platform) and 6,000 customers subscribing to premium content on the former UPC Belgium network.
News categories: Belgium, Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Results, Subscribers

KT Launches Mega TV Utilizing NDS Content Protection
Aug 6, 2007 – NDS (NASDAQ: NNDS) has announced that it has been selected by KT as the provider of content protection solutions for the company's Mega TV service, as KT announces commercial launch of the service.
News categories: Conditional Access, Content Protection, Digital TV, Fibre, IPTV, Korea

New Features, IP Hybrids and Retail STB Will Drive Set-top Box Markets Past 2010
Aug 3, 2007 – According to a new study from ABI Research, three main drivers will propel the set-top box market in the coming years: advanced features, new interactivity offered by "hybrid STBs", and the possible development of a retail set-top box market.
News categories: Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Set Top Box, Terrestrial