IPTV News

KT QOOK TV passes 1 million subscriber mark

Digital TV News — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:00:11 +0000

KT Corporation (KRX:030200/NYSE:KTC) has announced that subscribers to its QOOK TV television service in Korea have passed the 1 million mark.

SK broadband adds 35,000 IPTV subscribers in 3Q09

Digital TV News — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:30:10 +0000

SK broadband (KOSDAQ: 033630) has announced results for the third quarter of 2009. Subscribers to SK broadband's broad&tv IPTV service increased by 35,000 in the quarter to reach 810,000 at the end of the period.

Slovak Telekom IPTV passes 50,000 subscriber mark in 3Q09

Digital TV News — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:50:40 +0000

Slovak Telekom (Frankfurt: DTE)(NYSE:DT) has reported results for the first nine months of 2009. The number of the Magio digital television (IPTV) customers has significantly exceeded the level of 50,000.

Magyar Telekom Sat TV up 34k and IPTV up 9k in 3Q09

Digital TV News — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:40:44 +0000

Magyar Telekom (Frankfurt: DTE)(NYSE:DT) has reported results for the first nine months of 2009. The total number of TV customers was 584,000 at the end of September with growth mostly driven by satellite. Demand for IPTV also strengthened.

RomTelecom finishes 3Q09 with 831,000 DTH subscribers

Digital TV News — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:30:08 +0000

The OTE Group (Athens: HTO, NYSE: OTE) has announced results for the quarter ended September 30, 2009. In Romania, RomTelecom's DTH subscribers passed 831,000 in the quarter and a new IPTV project is to be launched in the coming months.

CenturyLink (CenturyTel/EMBARQ) Reports Third Quarter Earnings

Digital TV News — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:10:14 +0000

CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) has announced results for third quarter 2009, which include the effect of the Embarq acquisition completed July 1, 2009. In the quarter, video subscribers as a percentage of primary residential lines were approximately 11%.

DT Germany sells 164,000 IPTV packages in 3Q09

Digital TV News — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:10:43 +0000

Deutsche Telekom (Frankfurt: DTE)(NYSE:DT) has released results for the third quarter. Entertain, DT's IPTV service in Germany, had sold 885,000 packages by the end of the quarter, well on the way to the target of one million for the full year.

Minerva and Sigma Designs Announce IPTV Set-Top Box Collaboration

Digital TV News — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:10:01 +0000

Minerva Networks has unveiled enhancements to its client software to reduce the effort required to deploy set-top boxes based on Sigma Designs (NASDAQ:SIGM) ICs. Wistron (Taipei:6285) will be first-to-market with a set-top box featuring the solution.

UTStarcom IPTV Contract With Bureau of Radio and Television in Santai County, Sichuan Province

Digital TV News — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:50:39 +0000

UTStarcom (Nasdaq: UTSI) has announced a new customer deployment with the Bureau of Radio and Television of Santai County, Sichuan Province to resume their radio and television network capability following last year's traumatic earthquake.

Asia subscription TV figures higher than ROW combined

Digital TV News — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:20:38 +0000

The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) has announced new data for subscription TV penetration across the Asia Pacific, noting that the region now has 326 million pay-TV, up 26 million homes in 2009.

44% of France’s ADSL subscribers have TV-over-DSL

Digital TV News — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:00:39 +0000

France's telecoms authority, ARCEP, has published its latest market survey up to the end of the second quarter 2009.At the end of the period, 44% of ADSL subscribers, or 7.7 million, were also subscribing to TV-over-DSL.

KT adds 183,000 Qook TV subscribers in 3Q09

Digital TV News — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:40:46 +0000

Korea Telecom (KT) [KRX:030200/NYSE:KTC] has released its 3rd Quarter 2009 results. Mega-TV IPTV subscribers reached 907,000 at the end of September 2009, up 183,000 in the quarter.

Amino Provides Pre-Close Trading Update

Digital TV News — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:30:04 +0000

Amino Technologies plc (LSE: AMO) has said that it expects that its financial performance for FY 2009 will be significantly below market expectations and anticipates posting a material loss in H2.

Telpin to offer IPTV in Argentina in 2010

Digital TV News — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:30:59 +0000

La Cooperativa de Teléfonos de Pinamar (Telpin) will start offering IPTV services next year in three Argentine cities. Trials have been carried out using UTStarcom equipment, though a purchase decision has not yet been taken.

T-Hrvatski Telekom MAXtv adds 19,000 subscribers in 3Q09

Digital TV News — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:19:59 +0000

T-Hrvatski Telekom (Reuters: THTC.L, HT.ZA; Bloomberg: THTC LI, HTRA CZ) has announced results for the first nine months of 2009. MAXtv, T-HT’s IPTV service now has approximately 190,000 subscribers with nearly 19,000 net adds in Q3 2009.

Belgacom TV adds 75,000 customers in 3Q09

Digital TV News — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:11:35 +0000

Belgacom (Brussels: BELG) has reported results for the first nine months of 2009. Over the period July to September 2009, the Belgacom TV customer base grew by 75,000 customers compared to 52,000 for the same period last year.

SureWest Video RGUs up 100 in 3Q09

Digital TV News — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:10:12 +0000

SureWest Communications (Nasdaq: SURW) has announced results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2009. Broadband Residential revenues increased 12% year-over-year to $29.4 million due to 10% growth in average revenue per user (ARPU).

ADB Group delivers a mid-period business update

Digital TV News — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:30:58 +0000

Advanced Digital Broadcast (SIX: ADBN) has provided an update on the development of its business. The demand from cable and satellite segments remains strong, with the demand from terrestrial segment picking up and IPTV starting to follow.

Minerva Platform Powers First IP Television Deployment in Vietnam

Digital TV News — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:00:25 +0000

Minerva Networks has announced that VTC Digicom, one of the largest telecommunications service providers, and the second largest TV network in Vietnam, has selected Minerva’s iTVManager platform to deliver premium digital entertainment services.

Verizon adds 191,000 FiOS TV customers in 3Q09

Digital TV News — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:00:26 +0000

Verizon Communications (NYSE:VZ) has reported its results for the third quarter of 2009. Verizon added 191,000 net new FiOS TV customers to give 2.7 million FiOS TV customers at the end of the quarter, a 67.7 percent year-over-year increase.

Digital Set Top Box Market Remains a Strong Opportunity for Vendors and Technology Providers

Digital TV News — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:20:06 +0000

While the global recession has dampened growth in digital set top boxes (STB) in 2009, the market remains a tremendous opportunity for STB manufacturers and technology providers, reports In-Stat.

Amino showcases next generation solutions at TelcoTV 2009

Digital TV News — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:20:50 +0000

Amino Communications (LSE: AMO) will showcase a broad range of products, partnerships and powerful next generation solutions at TelcoTV 2009. Visitors will experience demonstrations that encompass Amino’s US market offering.

AT&T adds one million U-Verse TV subscribers Y-o-Y

Digital TV News — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:20:16 +0000

AT&T (NYSE:T) has reported third-quarter results. AT&T U-verse TV subscribers increased by 240,000 — versus a net gain of 232,000 in the year-earlier third quarter — to reach 1.8 million, up more than 1.0 million over the past year.

Thomson sees U.S. satellite set-top box weakness

Digital TV News — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:00:59 +0000

Thomson (Paris: 18453, NYSE: TMS) has announced results for the quarter ending September 30, 2009. In the quarter Thomson saw weakness across all Connect markets, in particular in the North American market with low orders for satellite set-top boxes.

MRG announces new leaders in its Global IPTV Market Leaders Report

Digital TV News — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:00:26 +0000

MRG has announced new leaders in the Global IPTV Market Leaders Report — October 2009 (MLR), which tracks the top 120 IPTV vendors in 24 regional sectors based on the installed base of 6 video systems products in over 800 IPTV Operations.

Comstar launches IPTV in Moscow Region

Digital TV News — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:30:35 +0000

COMSTAR - United TeleSystems JSC (Comstar UTS) [LSE: CMST], the largest integrated telecommunications provider in Russia and the CIS, has announced the expansion of its IPTV service to the region around Moscow.

US on Track to Surpass 5 Million Telco TV Subs in 2009

Digital TV News — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:20:06 +0000

AT&T and Verizon are expected to post double-digit IPTV subscriber growth in their respective third quarter releases, according to analyst firm Strategy Analytics.

Meo surpasses 500 thousand customers

Digital TV News — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:00:28 +0000

Portugal Telecom (Lisbon: PTC; NYSE: PT) has announced that Meo, its pay-TV service, surpassed 500 thousand customers, representing circa 64% of PT’s ADSL customers and 19% of its traffic generating lines, at the end of 2Q09.

LG Dacom adds 83,000 IPTV subscribers in 3Q09

Digital TV News — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:30:23 +0000

LG Dacom has announced results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2009. Dacom added 83,000 myLGtv IPTV subscribers in the quarter to give a total of 248,000 at the end of the period.

Trenque Lauquen trials IPTV with Amino

Digital TV News — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:20:42 +0000

The Cooperativa de Electricidad de Trenque Lauquen in Argentina is conducting IPTV trials in 15 homes with MPEG-4 set-top boxes from Amino Communications (LSE: AMO).