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Sogecable and Orange launch Yacom +

From David Del Valle in Madrid Sogecable, owner of Digital + and Canal +, and telco Yacom, controlled by Orange, is launching Yacom +, a joint triple play offer with broadband Internet access, phone calls and satellite pay-TV. The service, similar to Trio Plus launched last November by Sogecable and Telefonica, will be available in […]

May 21, 2008

Orange TV will cover 98% of French households

As part of the deployment of Orange's triple play offer, 24 million French households (98.3 per cent of the mainland population) will be able to access Orange TV from July 3rd with the launch of its' DTH service. Orange has confirmed the selection of the two orbital positions as Eutelsat Hot Bird and Atlantic Bird […]

May 21, 2008

PTCL to launch IPTV soon

Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) will launch an IPTV service very soon in which triple play facilities would be provided to consumers including almost 150 TV channels , according to a high official of PTCL .

May 20, 2008

IPTV equipment posts aggressive growth

The latest Synergy report finds that IPTV equipment sales continue to be driven by upgrades to Carrier networks, especially at the Edge, handling the surge in subscriber and traffic growth. Synergy anticipates Worldwide IPTV subscribers to increase substantially over the next two years and approach close to 40 million IPTV subscribers by 2010. Synergy research […]

May 20, 2008

Telefonica IPTV subs up 64%

From David Del Valle in Madrid Telefónica has declared a 64.4 per cent increase in the number of pay-TV subscribers it serves worldwide for the first quarter of this year to reach 1.8 million, with operations up and running in Spain, the Czech Republic, Peru, Chile, Colombia and Brazil. In Spain, the company reached 554,045 […]

May 20, 2008

PTCL to launch IPTV soon

Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) will launch an IPTV service very soon in which triple play facilities would be provided to consumers including almost 150 TV channels , according to a high official of PTCL .

May 20, 2008

Telefonica IPTV subs up 64%

From David Del Valle in Madrid Telefónica has declared a 64.4 per cent increase in the number of pay-TV subscribers it serves worldwide for the first quarter of this year to reach 1.8 million, with operations up and running in Spain, the Czech Republic, Peru, Chile, Colombia and Brazil. In Spain, the company reached 554,045 […]

May 20, 2008

BT Vision 214,000 subs

BT has reported that its BT Vision broadband TV service accelerated during the first quarter of 2008, with customer numbers reaching 214,000, that's 94,000 net additions in the quarter. The news came along with BT's financial results showing revenue up 2 per cent at £5.42 billion (E6.77bn) with 'new wave' (i.e. not fixed line voice) […]

May 16, 2008

blinkx posts loss

Video search engine blinkx posted a net loss of $3.2 million for the six months to end-March on revenues of $3.6 million, but said it is ahead of plan in its move towards profitability. blinkx said content hours have more than tripled since its IPO in May 2007 to 26 million from 7 million, and […]

May 16, 2008

Telcos remain in positive financial territory

The new worldwide IPTV Forecast from MRG confirms that the increased revenues of Telcos and IPTV Operators remain in positive financial territory, and are not negatively impacted by the global turmoil in the credit, oil and housing sectors. The forecast, based on most recently verified subscriber and revenue growth data, shows IPTV subscribers growing from […]

May 15, 2008