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1.243 million IPTV subscribers for France Telecom
By the end of 2007, France Telecom achieved 1.243mn subscribers for its IPTV service “Orange TV”. Of these subscribers, 90% were in France. The company also offers its IPTV service in Spain.
There were 2.5 million paid downloads in 2007 for France Telecom’s video on demand service.
France Telecom, Europe’s third largest phone group, has reported that […]
January 31, 2008
1,000 new IPTV users a week for Telekom Austria
Telekom Austria has released the latest details of its recently introduced IPTV service.
Its aonTV service is gaining 1,000 new customers a week, and there are now almost 100 channels available.
The company expects to be able to offer aonTV to approximately half of all households, including rural areas, in Austria by the end of this […]
January 29, 2008
One million US subscribers for Verizon
Verizon, the US telecom operator, now has more than one million subscribers to its fibre IPTV service FiOS TV. The company is now the tenth largest provider of television services in the US.
Launched in September 2005, FiOS TV offers hundreds of digital video and music channels, HD programming, and a library of more than 10,000 […]
January 19, 2008
Latest European TV viewing habits from Infocom
TV Markets Quarterly Monitoring from InfoCom, the independent market analyst, reveals that most of the television viewers in Western Europe preferred receiving television service over terrestrial platform in the second quarter of 2007.
Infocom’s research showed that, in Greece, Italy, Spain, France, the UK, Portugal and Finland, terrestrial or free-to-air TV viewers represented between 51% and […]
November 13, 2007
Emerging IPTV markets catching up
MRG’s latest bi-annual IPTV Forecast shows that Europe still leads the world market, while emerging markets like China, Eastern Europe, Korea and Russia are catching up. North America is seeing steady growth by independent operators, and accelerated growth by the large telcos.
IPTV subscribers are projected by MRG to jump from 13.5 million in 2007 to […]
November 7, 2007
Online Viewers Up 28% in UK
According to new figures from Nielson Online, 21 million people in the UK access TV, video and movie sites online, a 28% increase.
The figures cover the period from September 2006 to September 2007.
The number of people in the UK watching TV, video and movies online has increased to 63% from 55% in September […]
November 2, 2007
40 million worldwide IPTV subscribers predicted by 2010
New forecasts from leading analyst firm Canalys indicate that there will be 39.6 million worldwide IPTV subscribers by the end of 2010. This will be a tenfold increase, growing from fewer than four million subscribers in 2006.
North America will show rapid growth, with 12.1 million subscribers expected by 2010, representing 31% of all subscribers. The […]
October 27, 2007
India to have one million IPTV subscribers by 2011
At IBE 2007, held in Mumbai between 25 and 27 October, it was predicted that there will be one million IPTV subscribers in India by 2011.
At the convention, it was emphasised that for IPTV to succeed, companies need to get their act together in the areas of access, content and technology.
IBE 2007 is a new […]
October 18, 2007
TV over the Internet growing steadily
According to Continental Research’s Autumn 2007 Internet & Convergence Report, there has been a steady increase in the number of people watching TV over the Internet.
Channel 4’s on demand service, 4oD, was found to be the most popular - it is watched by a quarter of Internet users. The BBC’s on demand service was […]
September 17, 2007
UTStarcom agrees second IPTV solution contract in India
UTStarcom, Inc., a global leader in IP-based, end-to-end networking solutions and services, has agreed a contract to supply its industry-leading RollingStream end-to-end IPTV solution to Bharti Airtel, one of India’s leading integrated telecommunications service providers with more than 46 million customers.
UTStarcom’s RollingStream solution will enable Bharti Airtel to offer a completely new service to its […]