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 […]
National triple play for France
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 […]
On Telecoms IPTV partners revealed
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 […]
Swisscom confirms Fastweb bid
State-owned telco Swisscom has unveiled a €3.7 billion friendly cash bid for Italy’s Fastweb. Speculation about a possible bid emerged over the weekend with the broadband operator later asking for […]
Fastweb suspends shares ahead of Swisscom takeover
Italian broadband and operator Fastweb has asked the Italian stock market regulator Consob to suspend trading in its shares on Monday. In the briefest of statements the company said Saturday […]
Amazon/TiVo launch Unbox service
The Unbox service from Amazon and TiVo has officially rolled out. Nearly 1.5 million TiVo subscribers can now buy or rent digital movies and buy TV shows from Amazon. People […]
Premiere, arena both aim for football exclusivity
In separate interviews,Thursday, both Premiere CEO Georg Kofler and cable backed football channel arena’s CEO Dejan Jocic said they would try to gain exclusivity in broadcasting the German Bundesliga the […]
Alcatel-Lucent boosts Danish IPTV
Alcatel-Lucent has confirmed that TDC has opted for the company’s services integration, as well as the Microsoft TV IPTV Edition software platform, for its new IPTV service. Known as TDC […]
Comstar opts for Tandberg
The Russian broadband company Comstar-Direct has signed a deal with Tandberg Television to assist in the expansion of its IPTV network. Under it, Sistema-owned Comstar-Direct will be supplied with Tandberg […]
Tandberg installs MPEG-4 for Inuk
Tandberg Television is to supply a package of MPEG-4 AVC encoders and professional receivers to the Freewire IPTV service. Freewire is currently supplying a package of free-to-air digital channels to […]