Singapore Digital TV News

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

ASEAN reaches agreement on specifications for Set-top Boxes and Analogue Broadcasting Switch-off
Jun 19, 2008 – The 6th ASEAN Digital Broadcasting (ADB) Meeting in Singapore successfully concluded with officials agreeing on a common set of technical specifications for Standard Definition and High Definition digital set-top-boxes for ASEAN.
News categories: ASEAN, Brunei, Cambodia, Digital TV, DVB-MHP, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Set Top Box, Singapore, Terrestrial, Thailand, Vietnam

SingTel launches mio TV on Mobile
May 20, 2008 – SingTel (Singapore: SGX; Australia: ASX) has announced the launch of mio TV on Mobile. SingTel is the first operator in Singapore and one of the first in Asia Pacific to launch a mobile TV client with true TV viewing experience on mobile phones.
News categories: SingTel, 5G, Digital TV, DVR, Mobile, Singapore

SingTel Group's results for the fourth quarter and year ended 31 March 2008
May 14, 2008 – SingTel (Singapore: SGX; Australia: ASX) announced a double-digit growth in net profit for its fourth quarter ended 31 March 2008. The mio TV subscriber base increased by 17,000 to 44,000 customers as at 31 March 2008.
News categories: SingTel, Digital TV, IPTV, Results, Singapore, Subscribers

Asia-Pac braces for mobile TV fever
Mar 12, 2008 – The Asia-Pacific mobile video services market is expected to see huge growth potential as mobile operators continue to spend millions on developing innovative services and content to arrest the declining average revenue per user (ARPU).
News categories: Frost & Sullivan, Australia, China, Digital TV, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Market Research, Mobile, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Smart TV, Tablet, Taiwan, Vietnam

Asia-Pacific will Outpace Europe in IPTV Market
Feb 5, 2008 – A comprehensive market research report by RNCOS has found that the global IPTV market is currently dominated by Europe but it is expected that Asia will emerge as a stronger competitor to Europe in the coming years.
News categories: RNCOS, Asia, Broadband, China, Digital TV, Europe, Hong Kong, India, IPTV, Japan, Korea, Market Research, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan

The SingTel Group's results for the third quarter and nine months ended 31 December 2007
Feb 5, 2008 – SingTel has announced its unaudited results for the third quarter and nine months ended 31 December 2007. mio TV added new subscribers: 17,000 customers were provisioned with mio TV services, bringing the total installed customer base to 27,000 as at 31 December 2007.
News categories: SingTel, Digital TV, IPTV, Results, Singapore, Subscribers

MediaCorp, M1 to trial launch DVB-H technology mobile TV service
Jan 11, 2008 – The trial service, based on Digital Video Broadcasting Handheld (DVB-H) technology, is slated for a mid-year launch.
News categories: MediaCorp, M1, Digital TV, Mobile, Singapore

IPTV subscriber numbers in seventh heaven
Dec 12, 2007 – Significant growth will result in 38.4 million IPTV homes by 2012 - or more than seven times as much as the end-2006 figure, according to a new research report published by Informa Telecoms & Media.
News categories: Informa Telecoms & Media, IPTV (3rd edition), China, Digital TV, France, Germany, IPTV, Italy, Japan, Market Research, Norway, Singapore, Subscribers, Taiwan, USA