The IMS Research study 'IPTV: A Global Market Analysis – 2008 Edition' forecasts that, on a worldwide basis, shipments of IP set-top boxes will grow at a CAGR of 37.1 per cent through the end of 2012. These shipments will represent revenues of $3 billion. IP + Digital Terrestrial hybrid STBs are expected to comprise […]

Polish incumbent telco TPSA has reported in its Q1 results that it added 9,000 subscribers to its IPTV service during the period to reach a total of 49,000. The company also reached 405,000 Livebox subscribers and a total of 2,079,000 retail broadband subscribers. Total revenues for the period increased 2 per cent year-on-year, while net […]

Indian telcos planning to offer IPTV services want telecom regulator TRAI to fix prices for channels. BSNL, MTNL, Reliance and Bharti, have all urged the telecom regulator to fix channel prices. TRAI chairman Nripendra Misra confirmed: “Several telecom operators providing IPTV services or planning to do so have approached us on this issue. They have […]

Korean telecom firms are to invest around 1.57 trillion won (E9.9bn) on IPTV services this year according to the Broadcasting and Communications Commission (BCC). KT, the country's dominant telephone and broadband Internet service provider, alone plans to spend 1.3 trillion won, and LG Dacom and Hanarotelecom respectively allotted 146.4 billion won and 122.1 billion won […]

Streaming video and music distributed across the Internet, an IPTV network, or a mobile handset will generate $70 billion in network-derived and content-derived revenue into the US markets over the next six years, according to a study from The Insight Research Corporation. Insight’s market analysis study, “Streaming Media, IPTV, and Broadband Transport: Telecommunications Carriers and […]

Initial statistics for 2007 on the number of Chinese IPTV subscribers shows that by the end of 2007, Shanghai had 240,000 IPTV subscribers and that after large-scale promotion in January, this figure is now at 300,000 – the highest in the country. As a whole the country now has 1.2 million IPTV subscribers. Currently, over […]

Time Broadband Services and joint venture partner Stanton Technologies have launched their IPTV service over 2.5G mobile platform. The JV also announced the signing of contracts with DiGi in Malaysia and China Mobile and China Unicom in China. “Through an exclusive deal with the Chinese government owned entity, the Time-Stanton JV will have access to […]

The IMS Research study IPTV: A Global Market Analysis – 2008 Edition reveals that as a whole, an estimated 13.2 million households received IPTV service in 2007 with nearly 8.4 million IP-enabled set-top boxes shipping worldwide. IPTV households are forecast to grow 52.2 per cent annually though 2012. Shane Walker, research analyst and author of […]

The combined IPTV and switched digital video (SDV) market is forecast to reach $9.8 billion worldwide, according to Infonetics Research's IPTV and Switched Digital Video Equipment, Services, and Subscribers report. “With each quarter, the battle for video subscribers gets more heated,” said Jeff Heynen, analyst for IPTV at Infonetics Research. “Buoyed by the success of […]

Shanghai Telecom’s IPTV promotion launched in mid-January has been declared a success with as many as two or three thousand new subscribers signing up each day between February 7th and now. Shanghai Telecom’s Internet official Yang Bingfeng added that he is confident that total user numbers will reach 800,000 before the end of the year.