The Australian market for IPTV and Internet video is less developed than many other international markets, with fewer than five IPTV providers and fifteen Internet video providers offering full-length professional content directly to consumers, according to a report by the Australian Communications and Media Authority. Industry participants interviewed for the study believed that IPTV and […]

Orange is closing on 1.5 million subscribers to its IPTV service in France. According to Q1 numbers from parent France Telecom, Orange has 1.41 million subscribers in Europe as of March 31, 2008, up from 770,000 for the period a year earlier. The VOD service was a big winner with paid downloads at 1.064 million […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 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 […]