Pay TV operators will increasingly need to add new services such as Spotify and YouView to their bundles to keep existing subscribers and attract new ones. Although the simple packaging of telecoms and media products at a discounted rate might not seem like the most innovative strategy, it has proved to be the most powerful […]
A report released by Arcep, France’s telecom regulator, has revealed that service providers overall added 2.1 million new IPTV subscriptions in France as of the end of March, reaching a total of 11.4 million subscribers. French consumers are largely purchasing IPTV as part of a broadband bundle. Almost 60 per cent of France’s ADSL connections […]
IPTV industry body The OIPF (Open IPTV Forum) have announced the election of Dr Nilo Mitra as their new President. The announcement was made at the OIPF General Assembly hosted by Telecom Italia in Venice. New York based Dr Mitra is Engineering Director (Systems) at Ericsson and has been involved with the OIPF since foundation […]
EVO, a regional Internet Service Provider in Bulgaria, has started offering higher bandwidth and new, high-quality data services such as IPTV, to its customers. The service provider is upgrading its network to increase capacity and provide improved services. Under a three-year contract, Nokia Siemens Networks is supplying its Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) technology for […]
Internet movie subscription service Netflix is to expand to 43 countries throughout Latin America and the Caribbean later this year, offering unlimited TV shows and movies streaming instantly over the Internet to TVs and computers for one monthly subscription price. Netflix has been streaming to US members since 2007, adding the service in Canada in […]
Groovy Gecko and IBE have published the results of its production industry survey. The survey demonstrated an urgent need for the industry to embrace the world of online video, in order to both meet client demands and stay ahead of the competition. The survey, which was carried out by Groovy Gecko in conjunction with IBE […]
China Telecom has selected Alcatel-Lucent to provide a range of technology solutions for its project to deliver fibre optic broadband services to many unserved or underserved areas of the country. The project, labelled ‘Broadband China, Fibre Cities’, will involve the deployment of a mix of passive optical networking (PON) technologies connecting homes, office buildings and […]
For years, SMIT has been committed in promoting and participating in the cooperation between iDTV Vendors and Pay-TV operators for the extension of the DVB-CI standard .This April, one of the most important partners of SMIT, Turkey N0.1 DTH Pay TV operator Digiturk started a new promotional campaign – the iDTV will be bundled with […]
Dominant Belgian telco Belgacom is launching a new service that allows customers to watch TV everywhere and on any device, in a transparent way, without having to bother about the technical aspects. The initiative follows the launch in 2010 of a series of new offers on the telco’s IPTV service, Belgacom TV, together with video […]
Findings from consultancy firm Digital TV Research predict that the number of homes paying for IPTV will rocket to 155 million by end-2016, up from 35 million at end-2010. The IPTV Forecasts report – which covers 73 countries – suggests that the Asia Pacific region will supply 85 million of the 120 million additional subscribers […]