BT’s fledgling IPTV service BT Vision has attracted just 5,000 customers in its first few months of operation. Confirming the figures BT said the total was entirely in line with […]
Icelandic launch for The History Channel
The History Channel is to launch in Iceland this Sunday (April 1). It will make its debut on the Skjarinn ADSL platform and cable system as part of the Scandinavian […]
ComX deploys Widevine for IPTV network
Danish broadband provider ComX has chosen Widevine Cypher for its IPTV services. The operator offers a complete lineup of broadcast television, video on demand (VOD) with more than 100 channels […]
Greek IPTV market takes off, Vivodi launches service
Vivodi Telecom has said its ‘cable TV by Vivodi’ service is now up and running. Using a MEDIAstream platform supplied by MCOM, a leading Greek company in television technology over […]
Dutch launch for Comedy Central
Viacom’s Comedy Central will launch in The Netherlands on April 30. The channel will broadcast in the evenings only in a channel share with the Dutch version of Nickelodeon and […]
Fibre to Slovak and Norwegian homes
France Telecom subsidiary Orange Slovensko has said it intends to invest approximately SKK1 billion (€32 million) on a fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network in Slovakia that will cover almost 200,000 household in […]
Swisscom hikes access fees
Swisscom’s local loop will be unbundled on April 1, when the new Swiss telecom law comes into effect. In the run-up to the development, the telco has announced that the […]
New Austro-Hungarian IPTV deal
According to local reports, the leading Hungarian website production and development company MCOnet has signed an agreement with Vienna-based webfreetv.com. Under it, the two parties will jointly set up IPTV […]
VOOM HD comes to Hong Kong
Hong Kong based IPTV operator PCCW and Rainbow Networks have signed a carriage agreement to launch the VOOM HD channel in Hong Kong, the first launch of the channel in […]
Open IPTV Forum launched to develop end-to-end IPTV specification
AT&T Inc., Ericsson, France Telecom, Panasonic, Philips, Samsung Siemens, Sony, and Telecom Italia today announced the founding of the Open IPTV Forum, an industry consortium that will work to define […]