BT profits have beaten expectations thanks to strong growth in both broadband and its BT Vision television service. Pre-tax profits at the telecoms giant rose 13 per cent to £496 million in the three months to the end of September, compared with the same period last year. BT said its full-year earnings were likely to […]
The BBC and BT have revealed plans to bring BBC iPlayer, the public service broadcaster’s video-on-demand service, to the telco’s IPTV platform, BT Vision. BT Vision will introduce BBC iPlayer over the next five months, in a phased release starting in early December. All BT Vision customers will be able to access the service by […]
The president and CEO of ActiveVideo Networks has called on the media, entertainment and CE communities to agree on a single, unified platform for the delivery of Web video to the television. At the NewTeeVee Live conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, ActiveVideo’s Jeff Miller outlined how “Platform Chaos” – the fragmentation of countless video […]
AonTV, Telekom Austria’s IPTV service added 55.3 per cent more subs to reach 134,000 at September. Telekom Austria said its multi-play product packages had stemmed the loss of fixed lines during the third quarter to only 1,200. Telekom Austria’s fixed-line broadband base grew by 13.9 per cent year-on-year to 1.1 million lines. Telekom Austria posted […]
Danish public utility company and digital service provider TRE-FOR has substantially reduced maintenance costs for its IPTV operation after deploying a Bridge Technologies monitoring and analysis system. TRE-FOR supplies broadband and digital media services to subscribers in the Southern Danish Triangle region via an all-fiber infrastructure, and with the advanced analysis provided by the VideoBRIDGE […]
L4 Media, the interactive media company, has unveiled Panorama, the company’s new television widget platform. Panorama is designed for IPTV and television service providers who want to make it easy for consumers to access personalised content, like Twitter and Facebook updates, weather forecasts, and sports scores, directly from their televisions. L4 Media announced that Nokia […]
Actiontec Electronics announced that it has received a “Best of Sunnyvale” award from the U.S. Local Business Association (USLBA). Actiontec has now won this prestigious award three years in a row. According to the USLBA, less than 1 per cent of 2010 award recipients nationwide qualified as a three-time award winner. The USLBA “Best of […]
Minerva Networks, supplier of IPTV infrastructure software which powers more than 200 deployments worldwide, has unveiled a new platform for the delivery of blended Television and OTT video services to broadband subscribers on multiple screens. The new xTVFusion platform addresses the needs of Cable, Satellite and Telecom operators as well as ISPs, CLECs and Broadcasters […]
KidsCo, the international children’s channel, has secured a deal with Greece’s largest triple play provider, On Telecoms. KidsCo content will be available to viewers in Greece via IPTV, from November 2010. KidsCo will broadcast its range of family-friendly programming across On Telecom’s basic package and will be available to viewers 24 hours a day 7 […]
UK-based Cable & Wireless Communications (CWC) is considering the launch of IPTV services across a number of the countries in which it operates in the Caribbean in the second half of its 2010/11 fiscal year. Tony Price, the company’s CEO, unveiled the plans during a conference call to discuss the company’s first financial results since […]