Telekom Austria had reached over 151,000 subscribers for its IPTV service ‘aonTV’ by the end of 2010, up more than 50 per cent from a year ago. Total revenues across all operations and markets for 2010 reached €4.65 billion, down 3.1 per cent year-on-year, while group EBITDA fell 9.1 per cent to €1.6459 billion, due […]
Vladlink is trialling IPTV services in the Russia’s Far East, in preparation for a full commercial launch with its residential customers. The Internet service provider has chosen Netris to provide its iVision middleware for the service, to be branded ‘Vladlink.TV’. There will be over 110 channels available at launch delivered to HD-capable STBs from D-Link. […]
eMarketer estimates that in 2011, 68.2 per cent of US Internet users, or 158.1 million people, will be watching video content online each month. By 2015, that figure will increase to 76 per cent of Internet users, or 195.5 million people. In the same period, online video advertising spending will surge from $1.97 billion to […]
In a multiplatform world, where the consumer is king, keeping viewers satisfied while finding a way to monetise content is the biggest challenge facing programmers today. That was the verdict from the ‘State of the TV Industry’ panel at the 2011 TV Summit hosted by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Foundation and Variety. […]
Internet TV finally looks ready to live up to its promise, according to the Sector Focus commentary by Turner Investments. Analysts at Turner see it “gaining wider consumer acceptance and commercial scale in this decade.” “Perhaps the biggest thing Internet TV has going for it,” the authors say, “is that it’s part of a technological […]
Australian IPTV service FetchTV has confirmed the addition of football club channels from Manchester United Television and Real Madrid to its line-up. The service, which is available through a number of Australian ISPs, already carries club channels from Chelsea, Manchester City and Barcelona. The club channels feature match highlights from their specific team’s domestic and […]
ActiveVideo Networks will demonstrate how its CloudTV Platform can uniformly bring Smart TV functionality and applications to any set-top box or television equipped with CI Plus (Common Interface Plus) modules at the Cable Congress. ActiveVideo will show how CloudTV can build value for cable system operators, programmers and third-party developers by enabling the limitless delivery […]
Shares in US digital satellite operator Dish Network rose sharply following a suggestion by financial services group Credit Suisse that telco AT&T may make a bid to buy the company. Credit Suisse analyst Jonathan Chaplin said in a note that AT&T could be interested in Dish’s wireless spectrum assets. He said these make Dish an […]
Sigma Systems has introduced its new Telco Services Accelerator, a residential service fulfilment solution that enables telcos to capitalise on the growth of triple-play services over fibre. This next-generation OSS platform enables telcos to create service bundles and seamlessly provision, activate and manage residential Internet, SIP-based VoIP and IPTV services over a fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network. […]
Open IPTV platform YouView has formally admitted that the service’s planned 2011 commercial launch has been deferred until 2012. In an announcement euphemistically updating ‘launch timings’, YouView has confirmed that it will have a product in trial by the end of this year, with a full consumer launch planned in early 2012. YouView also today […]