In Italy’s telecom market, video revenue will triple its share of total revenue by 2014, presenting a $4.4 billion revenue opportunity for operators, according to a report from Pyramid Research, the telecom research arm of the Light Reading Communications Network. Italy’s pay-TV market generated $2.9 billion, with 5.6 million subscriptions at the end of 2008, […]

Many telecom companies are shifting away from traditional communications access providers and targeting the needs of a digitalised society. To this end, they have started looking for ways to not only offer Quad Play services that include fixed telephony, fixed broadband, TV and mobile communication services but also to enable end users to perform their […]

Joost was squeezed out of the market by broadcasters setting up their own VOD channels admits Mike Volpi, who resigned as CEO. He said that in April, when Disney joined the Hulu joint venture, it became pretty clear Joost had to do something else — it is becoming a white label video provider. Explaining how […]

The BBC’s director of new media and technology Erik Huggers says that the future for free-to-air digital platforms like Freesat and Freeview is ‘unclear’ – suggesting that only IPTV and Project Canvas venture will give consumers the services and features that they need. Huggers said that, despite work on adding HD to Freeview and continued […]

Johannes Larcher, senior vice president at Hulu, has confirmed that the service will be coming to the UK with an expected launch date in September, but didn’t specify which UK media companies would provide content for the service. "We are talking to everyone. The UK is our number one priority in terms of international expansion. […]

Total subscribers have increased to 1,687,833 by 34,000 in just 6 months. On July 2nd, Korea's three IPTV operators reported that KT's Qook TV has 724,564 subscribers while LG Dacom's My LGTV and SK Broadband's Broadband&TV have 188,289 and 774,980, respectively. Noticeably, the statistics of June show that although subscribers of the VOD service have […]

Joost the much-hyped OTT video provider is dropping its consumer proposition and reinventing as a "cost-effective" white-label video provider. Along the way it is cutting many staff possibly preparing for a sale as a technology company rather than an entertainment platform. Mike Volpi its high profile CEO is stepping down although will remain as chairman. […]

ITU has given first stage approval to a new standard that enables an IPTV end user to locate and subscribe to content coming from different, independent service providers. The standard will enable a greater deal of choice for end-users and will help service providers offer a more competitive package. Recommendation ITU-T H.770 – Mechanisms for […]

Singapore Telecommunications has announced that its mio TV service has surpassed its 100,000 customer mark. The milestone coincides with the service's second birthday and to celebrate, all new and existing customers will be able given a special selection of ten movies which they can watch on-demand for free. mio TV was launched 20 July 2007 […]

Despite the massive investments necessary in Asia/Pacific’s IPTV market, both in technology and content procurement, telecom operators must invest to gain subscriber market share according to a report from Pyramid Research, the telecom research arm of the Light Reading Communications Network. Although Asia/Pacific has the distinction of having the most successful IPTV operators globally, and […]