Eric Xu, Deputy Chairman of the Board and Rotating CEO, Huawei, has revealed that the ICT solutions provider is stepping up its role in supporting telcos’ video operations better to enable them to develop successful businesses. Speaking at the Ultra-Broadband Forum 2016 in Frankfurt, Xu noted that at the previous year’s event in Madrid, Huawei […]
Ericsson has been selected by Novus Entertainment, a Canadian telco, to deploy its end-to-end IPTV service. Novus will offer IP-based TV services, powered by Ericsson Mediaroom, to selected IPTV ready buildings in the greater Vancouver area starting October 1st Co-Presidents Doug Holman and Donna Robertson of Novus say: “Ericsson is a market leader in the […]
BT TV has selected the Accenture Video Solution (AVS) platform to support its current and future BT TV offerings, including BT Sport. The Accenture-developed software platform provides numerous services that support both live streaming and video-on-demand, delivering a high-quality user experience across multiple devices including smartphones, tablets and computers. Once deployed, the platform will enable […]
V-Nova, a global software IP company that delivers video and data encoding solutions, and Vimmi, a specialist in distributed video delivery network platforms, have announced that V-Nova PERSEUS video compression has been integrated within the Vimmi video delivery platform. The integration represents a major milestone in enabling the launch of PERSEUS-powered online video services in […]
Leichtman Research Group (LRG) has found that the eleven largest pay-TV providers in the US – representing about 95 per cent of the market – lost about 665,000 net video subscribers in Q2 2016, compared to a loss of about 545,000 subscribers in Q2 2015. The top pay-TV providers account for 93.75 million subscribers – […]
Telekom Malaysia’s IPTV service, HyppTV is showcasing the Rio 2016 Olympic Games in 4K quality, a first in Malaysia, in a special event at Sunway Pyramid, the official venue partner for the showcase. The event was held to preview HyppTV’s breakthrough innovation in TV broadcasting, together with its technology partner, Huawei. The 4K technology will […]
Deutsche Telekom has reported core profit rose 8.6 per cent as its US operations compensated for network upgrade investments in Germany. The German telco said adjusted earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA), excluding special items, rose to €5.46 billion. Deutsche Telekom added 41,000 customers to its domestic IPTV platform Entertain in Q2 2016, […]
In contrast to other European countries, which have an average penetration of 27 per cent, DTT is the main TV distribution system in Spain to watch TV. Eighty per cent of Spaniards watch TV through DTT with the remaining 20 per cent through pay-TV platforms (IPTV, cable and satellite). The increasing use of smartphones, tablets […]
The addition of 59,000 TV customers in Q1 has seen BT reach 1.6 million, with the telco reporting that BT Sport’s average audience figures increased 58 per cent, excluding Showcase and digital channels. Broadband and TV revenue rose 21 per cent. “We’ve brought our BT Sport content to millions of additional sports fans through a […]
MobiTV, a global player in live and on-demand video delivery solutions, has announced the MobiTV Connect Platform, an IP video delivery solution which allows cable operators to significantly upgrade their user experience and utilise the connected TV devices and streaming boxes already in a large majority of US homes. “The in-home TV experience is changing […]