BT Group has confirmed that over 20,000 customers have signed for its IPTV service BT Vision. BT chief executive Ben Verwaayen told the assembled press that the company had taken […]
Harmonic buys transcoding company
Harmonic has acquired the transcoding software vendor Rhozet Corporation for $15.5 million (€11.3 million) in a mixture of cash and 1.1 million Harmonic shares to compliment its line of compression […]
New IPTV service for Poland
TV Point Group has signed an agreement with ATM SA to launch an IPTV service and multimedia distribution platform. According to a statement released by TV Point Group, a wholly […]
Completing IPTV
Complete TV is supplying Simply Global TV with a DTT-IPTV set-top that will be used for the distribution of international channels to a UK audience. Julian Clover reports. IPTV seems […]
EU approves Tele2 France broadband divestment
Tele2 has announced that it has received EU approval for the divestment of its French broadband and fixed telephony business to SFR. The Vivendi-Vodafone mobile operator agreed in October 2006 […]
Makeover for Dutch KPN
The Dutch incumbent telco KPN will lower the subscription prices of its DTT and IPTV services on August 2. It will also change the name of the latter from Mine […]
BT confirms Premiership pricing
BT Vision has given details of its coverage of the Barclays Premiership, charging fans £4 (€5.43) a month for delayed coverage of the Saturday afternoon kick-offs, and £12 when combined […]
Ericsson pilots CYTA fibre to the home
Ericsson has signed up Cypriot incumbent telco CYTA, Cyprus Telecommunications Authority, as its first European customer for a Fibre-To-The-Home (FTTH) network based on the vendor’s GPON (Gigabit Passive Optical Network) […]
Regulators investigate Sogecable-Telefonica pact
The Spanish communications regulator and the competition authority have confirmed they are to investigate last month’s agreement between the pay-TV operator Sogecable and the telecoms company Telefonica. The two agreed […]
Farncombe to manage Tiscali triple play expansion
Farncombe Technology has been appointed to assist Tiscali UK with the rollout of its triple-play rollout project. Tiscali took over the interests of Video Networks’ Homechoice service on March 1 […]