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 […]

France tops IPTV list, according to reasearch from Dittberner.

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 […]

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 […]