JumpTV Inc, a broadcaster of ethnic television over the Internet, announced today that it has signed 11 new exclusive internet broadcast agreements with channels from Pakistan, Thailand, Lebanon, Nigeria and Benin, expanding its network to 270 channels from 70 countriues under license. Channels signed include: ORTB (Benin), Channels TV, Lagos TV and MiTV (Nigeria), Zam […]

In an extraordinary general meeting, Monday afternoon, shareholders approved a reverse take-over of Tele2’s Benelux assets, by Versatel. Tele2 acquired just over 80% of Versatel in the summer of 2005, for €1.34 billion. However the merger could not be completed due to minority shareholder resistance led by investment fund Centaurus. Monday morning the group that […]

Tiscali UK has unveiled plans to extend the availability of its IPTV service to five million homes by the end of this year. The Italian broadband provider is using last September’s acquisition of Homechoice to act as a springboard into the UK’s major cities. The present 50,000 Homechoice subscriber base in London and Stevenage will […]

Sweden’s TeliaSonera is to offer its broadband customers a free package of eight television channels and the ability to view the Internet directly on their television sets. Kanalpaket Start is comparable with the starter packages offered by the Swedish cable market. Start is one of four IPTV packages on offer from TeliaSonera to customers with […]

BT has emerged as a potential bidder for the UK assets of Tiscali, the Italian telco which last year acquired Video Networks’ Homechoice business. The Italian daily Il Sole 24 Ore says that BT has begun talks with investment bank Merrill Lynch to discuss the acquisition. Homechoice has around 46,000 subscribers in London and Hertfordshire […]

Spanish IPTV provider Jazztel has launched a new video on demand service. Videoclub went live in December and uses a bank of 50 video servers provided by Kasenna. The system uses Kasenna’s MediaBase Video Server platform and vFusion content distribution server software to optimise the storage between the centralised server and streaming edge servers. Jazztelia […]

StarNordic has become a part owner of the Norwegian IPTV operation FastTV.net. The alliance means that StarNordic will now be able to target housing and aerial associations used to analogue TV with a digital IPTV offering from FastTV. At the same time FastTV will now be able to provide Internet and telecoms services using the […]

South Korea will introduce commercial Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) services within this year, the nation’s Information Minister Rho Jun Hyong has said, according to the ABU. IPTV is one of the South Korean government’s newly introduced growth engines. However, efforts have been hampered for the past few years as broadcasting and communications industries remain conflicted […]

IPTV, according to reasearch from Dittberner. PCCW is the world’s largest IPTV provider with 638,000 subscribers, followed by France Telecom with 421,000 subs, Free counts 350,000 and Telefonica 304,000 (all figures as per September 30, 2006). The list of countries following France is, in order, Hong Kong, Spain, Italy, Holland, Belgium, Morocco, Russia, the United […]

Inuk Networks has announced two new appointments ahead of the rollout of its Freewire IPTV service to the UK residential market later this year. Both engineering director David Evans and content manager Rebecca Dillion join from Blockbuster Entertainment International. Since November last year Inuk has delivered a digital TV service to students in their halls […]