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Orange TV to rely on films?

Orange is rumoured to be building its IPTV service around on-demand films when it eventually launches a home TV service to take on Sky, Virgin, Freeview and BT Vision. Its ';TV in the Home' service is due to launch before the end of he year – some two years behind schedule.Nationwide trials for the TV […]

September 23, 2008

Sri Lanka Telecom IPTV launches

Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) has launched its commercial IPTV broadcasting service following delays caused by a slow rollout of ADSL2+ technology. The IPTV deployment, originally scheduled to be completed in August, is based on UTStarcom's RollingStream platform. SLT's wholly owned subsidiary Visioncom has invested around $1 million in the initial launch of its TV-over-ADSL system, […]

September 23, 2008

Bharti Airtel to launch IPTV and DTH

Bharti Airtel, India’s leading telecom company, has reported that it intends to launch its IPTV and DTH services before the end of the year. “We have “We have been conducting IPTV trials in a thousand households in Gurgaon and our strategy is to deliberately go slow, rolling out in the NCR region first in a […]

September 17, 2008

Hybrid IPTV no longer enough

From Colin Mann in Amsterdam Telcos adopting a hybrid solution to video service delivery need to go further than just integrating digital terrestrial or DTH services Telcos adopting a hybrid solution to video service delivery need to go further than just integrating digital terrestrial or DTH services into their platform, according to Andrew Burke, CEO […]

September 17, 2008

BT Vision keeps kid's TV ad-free

BT Vision is to keep its children's channels ad free after its research reveals a majority of parents want ads banned from children's TV programming

September 17, 2008

Bouygues becomes IPTV player with BBox

From Sotires Eleftheriou in Paris French mobile telephone operator Bouygues Telecom (part of the Bouygues construction group which owns TF1) is to launch a triple/quad French mobile telephone operator Bouygues Telecom (part of the Bouygues construction group which owns TF1) is to launch a triple/quad play service called BBox on 20 October. The triple play […]

September 17, 2008

Abertis and Microsoft to launch a joint IPTV platform

From David del Valle in Madrid Spain’s telco operator Abertis Telecom and Microsoft have reached an agreement to create an IPTV service that will manage Spain’s telco operator Abertis Telecom and Microsoft have reached an agreement to create an IPTV service that will manage and distribute DTT content using Microsoft Silverlight, a cross-browser multiplatform plug-in […]

September 16, 2008

BT bid for soccer rights?

BT is mulling a bid for rights to the Premier League when the auction for coverage of the competition gets underway early next year. The Dan Marks, BT Vision's chief executive, has called a bid an "interesting idea". In the 2006 auction for rights through to the 2009/10 season Sky bid £1.3 billion (E1.64bn) for […]

September 16, 2008

Korean IPTV rolling out

After a long drawn out process, three Korean telcos are finally preparing to launch real time IPTV broadcasts after getting the green light from the

September 12, 2008

Open IPTV Forum growing stronger

The Open IPTV Forum, the pan-industry initiative that was established to produce the end-to-end solution specification which will open up access to the interactive and The new members are; EnCentro, HwaCom Systems, Institut fuer Rundfunktechnik, Neotion, Sigma Designs, UTStarcom and WyPlay …..

September 12, 2008