US phone giant AT&T has an impressive 95.5 million wireless subscribers, and is offering them a $45 a month discount for 6 months if they switch to AT&T’s U-Verse IPTV service from cable or satellite. The offer is open to those taking at least AT&T’s Mobility Nation 450 cellular pricing plan and clients need to […]
International news channel Al Jazeera English has struck a carriage deal with Spain’s leading cable operator, ONO, widening its current availability in the country to another one million subscribers. The deal will see Al Jazeera English (AJE) made available on channel 146 in ONO’s TV Esencial package. The channel is already available in Spain on […]
Open IPTV platform YouView has published its final core technical specification for launch and announced further device partners. A single technical document, detailing the core YouView interoperability specification for launch is now available on the YouView web site. The YouView Core Technical Specification references the Digital Television Group’s D-Book 72 and provides a set of […]
KyLinTV, the IPTV service provider, has confirmed the official launch of KyLin2.0. Chinese television channels are now able to be delivered to overseas Chinese subscribers in HD and available for mobile consumption on the iPad or through a PC. With the launch of KyLin2.0, KyLinTV will provide 88 of the most popular Chinese channels including […]
Breeze Technologies, the MPEG and IPTV solutions developer, represented exclusively by Imago in Europe, has formed a new partnership with French IPTV middleware provider Vianeos, which will allow the two companies to deliver an ‘IPTV in a box’ solution. The agreement was finalised at last month’s IP&TV World Forum and brings together Breeze Technologies’ TVIUM […]
Results from the IMS Research study IPTV: A Global Market Analysis – 2011 Edition, indicate that the worldwide Hospitality market for IPTV set-top boxes will reach a revenue milestone of three quarters of a billion US dollars in 2015, growing at a CAGR of 16 per cent. The market is forecast to encounter double digit […]
NeuLion, the multi-platform broadcast technology company, is working with Team National, a nationwide US direct selling company, to create Team National TV, an IPTV television service for Team National’s members. The new Team National TV will deliver dozens of linear channels of television programming including Fox News, CBS College Sports, Hallmark Movie Channel, Fox Business, […]
Spain’s pay television sector has more and more subscribers who pay less and less. Year on year in 2o10 pay-TV gained 218,830 subscribers, up 5.36 per cent, to 4,296,434 according to the latest report from the CMT, the Telecommunications Market Commission. Pay DTT, with a 127 per cent growth from 153,151 subscribers in 2009 to […]
Swiss-based Transmedia has finalised a deal with IPTV operator kt (formerly Korea Telecom) to launch its iConcerts HDTV channel for the first time in Korea. This marks the first time the iConcerts HDTV broadcast channel will be available to the Korean public following the approval of its broadcast licence by the KCC (Korea Communications Commission) […]
Private Media Group, a global specialist in adult entertainment products, has entered into an expanded agreement with long time IPTV partner, Free, in France. Leveraging Free’s leading distribution platform which includes free-to-air TV channels, PVR, and catch-up services, along with extensive user base, Private will have 100 per cent coverage throughout France with terms that […]