IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) News

Sun Micro and Tech Mahindra strategic alliance on IPTV services
May 15, 2007 – Sun Microsystems India and Tech Mahindra have announced a strategic alliance to enable the rollout of cost-effective and efficient IPTV services to the Indian and Asia Pacific markets. More …
News categories: Digital TV, India, IPTV

Latvia's Lattelecom Selects Widevine for IPTV Deployment
May 15, 2007 – Widevine® Technologies has announced that Lattelecom, the Baltic’s first MPEG-4 IPTV solution has chosen Widevine to enable its acquisition of premium content and secure delivery on the H.264 platform to multiple devices in the home. More …
News categories: Conditional Access, Digital TV, DRM, IPTV, Latvia

Annual Set Top Box shipments reach 120m units by 2011
May 13, 2007 – The demand for set top boxes continues to rise, with more than 65m cable, satellite and IPTV digital STBs shipped globally last year, and the market on track to grow at 13% CAAGR to 120m annual shipments by 2011. More …
News categories: Cable TV, Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Satellite, Set Top Box, Terrestrial

100,000 customers have chosen Telia Digital-tv in Sweden
May 9, 2007 – Customer uptake over the past few months has surpassed all expectations and this week the 100,000th television customer subscribed to the Telia Digital-tv service. More …
News categories: Digital TV, IPTV, Subscribers, Sweden

Czech Republic - O2TV Customer base grows to over 30,000!
May 9, 2007 – Within the last week, the number of subscribers to on Telefonica O2’s digital O2TV service, or IPTV technology fixed-line television, exceeded 30,000. More …
News categories: Czech Republic, Digital TV, IPTV, Results, Subscribers

KPN Results for the first quarter ending March 31, 2007
May 9, 2007 – In the first quarter, the number of TV subscribers reached nearly 0.3 million (296k) an increase of 31k this quarter and 43% y-on-y. More …
News categories: Broadband, Digital TV, IPTV, Netherlands, Results, Subscribers, Terrestrial

France - Iliad 220,000 ADSL Net Adds in Q1
May 8, 2007 – As of march 31, 2007, Iliad ADSL subscriber base reached 2,498,000 vs. 2,278,000 at the end of December 2006. More …
News categories: Broadband, Digital TV, Fibre, France, IPTV, Results, Subscribers

India - BSNL to start IPTV soon
May 8, 2007 – BSNL would very soon launch Internet Protocol Television Services in major cities like Chennai, Hyderabad, Bangalore and Kolkata, its Chairman and Managing Director A K Sinha said. More …
News categories: Digital TV, India, IPTV

Vendors in Early Struggle to Rule IP Set Top Box Market
May 8, 2007 – There are a lot of IP set top box vendors, but few are shipping in large quantities, reports In-Stat. The top supplier, Motorola, announced that it has reached the one million-unit milestone in April 2007. More …
News categories: Digital TV, IPTV, Market Research, Set Top Box