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 buys FastTV stake
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 to launch commercial IPTV service
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 […]
France tops IPTV list
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 hires ahead of UK IPTV rollout
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 […]
Tiscali launches UK service
Italian telco Tiscali has launched its first UK IPTV service. Tiscali TV has been made available to a group of selected customers on 32 telephone exchanges in London. The customers concerned have already been contacted by the company ahead of a full UK launch later in 2 The company is aiming to be delivering the […]