According to local reports, the leading Hungarian website production and development company MCOnet has signed an agreement with Vienna-based webfreetv.com. Under it, the two parties will jointly set up IPTV portals. MCOnet has a presence in 14 countries including the UK, US and China. Its clients in Hungary include UPC and the national commercial stations [...]
VOOM HD comes to Hong Kong
March 21, 2007 10.02 Europe/London By
Hong Kong based IPTV operator PCCW and Rainbow Networks have signed a carriage agreement to launch the VOOM HD channel in Hong Kong, the first launch of the channel in Asia and one of the first 24/7 Asian HD channels. “Everyday, HDTV transforms the entertainment experiences of more and more viewers worldwide, and this audience [...]
Open IPTV Forum launched to develop end-to-end IPTV specification
March 19, 2007 12.16 Europe/London By
AT&T Inc., Ericsson, France Telecom, Panasonic, Philips, Samsung Siemens, Sony, and Telecom Italia today announced the founding of the Open IPTV Forum, an industry consortium that will work to define an interoperable end-to-end specification for delivery of IPTV services. Initially the Forum will consist of the founding member companies, but will be open for other [...]
Tele2 Vision reports over 140,000 TV subs
March 19, 2007 09.34 Europe/London By
Dutch telecom operator Versatel said it had 144,000 triple and dual play custiomers at the end of last year, most of which are also television customers. 131,600 households subscribe to the Tele2 Vision IPTV service and another 12,400 subscribers take the DTH feed from Canal Digitaal.
Astra and Filiago launch interactive broadband
March 16, 2007 08.38 Europe/London By
CeBIT – HANOVER – SES Astra and Filiago have launched their broadband satellite service Astra 2Connect with Filiago. The company unveiled the technology at last year’s IBC in Amsterdam. Filiago will market the broadband internet access service to end customers in Germany focusing on (rural) regions without terrestrial broadband access. The satellite-based DSL infrastructure is [...]
ZDF goes all-out with ‘new media’
March 16, 2007 08.30 Europe/London By
CeBIT – HANOVER – In an attempt to lure young viewers German public broadcaster is going all-out with ‘new media’ offering a wide range of new services. These include the online ZDF Mediathek, daily podcasts and mobile TV on DVB-H, DMB and UMTS. On DTT the broadcaster also offers ZDF Digitext. ZDF is offering an [...]
May launch for Arcor IPTV in Germany
March 16, 2007 08.18 Europe/London By
CeBIT – HANOVER – German telecoms operator Arcor (part of the Vodafone group) presented its proposed IPTV service for visitors of the CeBIT in Hannover with a working demo. Slated for a trial launch in Kassel in May of this year the new platform will offer around 50 “free” channels as well as 70 pay [...]
Iliad to free Club following soaring profits
March 15, 2007 15.33 Europe/London By
Iliad SA, the owner of France’s largest alternative broadband provider Free, says it has made an offer for Deutsche Telekom’s French internet business Club Internet. Serving 600,000 ADSL and 400,000 narrowband subscribers, the company has been valued at €340 million by the French bank Exane BNP Paribas. It seems that everyone is interested in buying [...]
National triple play for France
March 13, 2007 12.00 Europe/London By
Canal+ and Telecom Italia-backed Alice have teamed up to launch the first-ever triple play service to made available nationally in France. Due to make its debut tomorrow (March 14), AliceBox-Groupe Canal+ will be available for an introductory price of €39.95 a month until May 19 and consist of two offers. The first, known as AliceBox-Canal+ [...]
On Telecoms IPTV partners revealed
March 12, 2007 14.57 Europe/London By
On Telecoms SA, which has a nationwide general telecommunications licence for Greece, launched its IPTV service in late January as part of a new IP-based triple play service in the Athens region. Optibase delivers its IPTV Carrier-Grade Headend MGW 5100 to receive and digitally compress the video channels offered, including the Nova premium package, as [...]
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