The uptake of Freeview in New Zealand has increased by nearly 13 per cent in the latest quarter, with more than 250,000 now tuning in to the subscription-free digital television service. For the three months ending June 2009 255,048 households were able to receive Freeview, with 11,846 more households receiving Freeview satellite (a total of […]
AirTies, the wireless home networking vendor, has been chosen by Smart Digivision to provide its set-top boxes as part of its award winning IPTV service, MyWay, offering Indian households a high quality, interactive IPTV experience. The service, which is being rolled out across 54 large cities across India including New Delhi and Mumbai, will provide […]
To help service providers around the world meet the massive bandwidth demands caused by explosive growth in video traffic, Alcatel-Lucent has introduced what it claims is the industry's first 100 Gigabit Ethernet service routing interface for the edge. The new service interface leverages unique silicon innovations to deliver massive bandwidth to support a wide variety […]
About 73 per cent of Comcast and Time Warner Cable subscribers surveyed said TV Everywhere services — which promise access to a wealth of video online for no extra charge — are an “excellent” or “good” idea, according to research firm Solutions Research Group. However, SRG said, a significant number of respondents also expressed skepticism […]
du today announced the successful introduction of du TV+ services on 1 July, 2009 in its current fixed-line areas. du TV+ will provide du home customers with a TV viewing experience including an array of advanced features such as intuitive and simplified search and display, superior channel browsing, instant channel change capability, an easy Electronic […]
The French competition authority has found that exclusive distribution agreements for pay TV content via triple play services should be restricted as they harm competition among ISPs and restrict consumer choice. The authority, whose advice was sought by the ministry of the economy, recommended that legislation be drafted to allow exclusive deals only for one […]
Carphone Warehouse's TalkTalk broadband service has dropped Phorm leaving the targeted advertising group's prospects for a UK launch looking increasingly unlikely. BT confirmed earlier that it had no "imminent plans" to launch Phorm's Webwise service to its broadband customers. Virgin Media has said it remains interested in offering such a service but has not performed […]
A U.S. judge dismissed some damages claims in a copyright infringement lawsuit against Google and YouTube.com but left open the possibility that non-U.S. based rights owners could seek damages for live broadcasts, if they prevail. A group of sports and music copyright holders, led by the UK Premier League, had argued that foreign works were […]
Witbe, a specialist in end-to-end supervision and quality of experience monitoring of video, voice and data out of the STB and modem, has launched 'Witbe Lab', a solution dedicated to the specific needs of video, voice and data services test and validation. Witbe Lab is a complete and integrated solution allowing multi-service test scenarios to […]
In-Stat says efforts to stop the 12 billion illegal peer-to-peer (P2P) downloads occurring annually in the US have come up short. In-Stat believes content owners and service providers need to shift from content protection to a two-pronged content monetisation strategy consisting of digital rights information management and offering a better user experience than illegal P2P […]