Edgeware announced that TeliaSonera has deployed the Orbit 2x server system to deliver on-demand TV and video services to its rapidly growing IPTV subscriber base in Sweden. Edgeware says its distributed server architecture enabled TeliaSonera to cost-effectively integrate on-demand capabilities into its existing network, and to deliver new services to its 300,000 subscribers in record […]

In 2007, subscribers to IPTV services worldwide numbered only about 13.5 million, but ABI Research forecasts their ranks to grow to more than 90 million by the end of 2013. “The IPTV market as a whole is poised for strong growth,” says senior analyst Cesar Bachelet, “but clearly it will be stronger in some areas […]

Pirelli Broadband Solutions announced the creation of OpenSet, a complete hardware and software platform of Set Top Boxes for IPTV applications, with an associated SDK package that allows third parties to access Pirelli's state-of-the-art embedded middleware for service customisations. With the OpenSet platform, operators, service providers and system integrators – whether in the Telco or […]

IPTV service revenues will approach $14 billion in 2012, growing from $694 million in 2007, according to “US IPTV Forecast and Outlook,” from Strategy Analytics. Although there are numerous IPTV providers of all shapes and sizes in the US, the landscape is dominated by the two incumbents: AT&T and Verizon, each of which has a […]

Tandberg Television, part of the Ericsson Group, has announced that its award-winning iPlex UltraCompression IPTV video processing and transcoding system has been selected by du, the Dubai-based telco, as the head-end for its IPTV services. du is the United Arab Emirates's newest telecommunications company, launched in February 2007, it already has 1.5 million customers.

A report from MRG, IPTV Home Networking Strategies, 2008, has explored the importance of the Home Network for IPTV Operators. It reveals how effective Home Networking (HN) strategies can improve the competitiveness of an IPTV Operator against Cable and Satellite platforms, reposition the IPTV Operator in the growing battle against the PC and CE industries, […]

Deutsche Telekom has said that sales of television services to broadband customers will help it gain market share. The company wants to offer TV over the Internet to 20 million homes by the end of the year, board member Timotheus Hoettges said. A home entertainment package including about 150 TV channels and 2,600 video-on-demand titles […]

Harmonic has confirmed that Multimedia Polska, a leading cable and IPTV service provider in Poland with more than 600,000 subscribers, has deployed Harmonic’s on-demand solutions for its new video-on-demand (VOD) service launched in September 2007. Multimedia Polska is the first cable operator in Poland to roll out VOD, and the service, initially available in six […]

The Belgian incumbent has claimed 305,319 year end subs for its Belgacom TV IPTV service, adding 165,654 new homes in 2007. ARPU vice was E16.10 a month. The digital subs total puts it not far behind main cable operator Telenet with about 400,000 digital homes. Total digital penetration now stands at 22 per cent.

From Branislav Pekic in Rome Portugal Telecom has signed up 21,000 so far for its IPTV service, 15,000 of which were added in the last three months of 2007. According to PT vice president, Zeinal Bava, the expansion of the IPTV service will be one of the priorities during 2008, together with the launch of […]