HbbTV publishes IPTV Specification
Telecompaper (subscription)
The HbbTV Association said it has finalised and published its IPTV Specification, which builds on HbbTV 2. The extension of the HbbTV specification includes ...

Broadband speeds uneven across LATAM
Rapid TV News
... enabling consumers to access a new range of over-the-top (OTT) and IP-based services, including IPTV and streaming, video-on-demand (VOD) options.

Star India warns local pirates
Advanced Television
“By this notice, private cable and satellite operators (Cable/ DTH I IPTV /HITS) are hereby cautioned to refrain from re-transmitting the live feed of the said series' ...


Rostelecom expands PON network in Vologda
Telecompaper (subscription)
More than 1,300 households were covered with the PON network, and 350 subscribers have already started using digital telephony, broadband and IPTV ...

Russia's SPB TV partners China Daily for on-demand content
Rapid TV News
SPB TV, which provides OTT TV, IPTV and mobile TV solutions in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), started broadcasting content from China in ...

Espial Wins TV Tech Global IBC2017 Best of Show Award for ...
Business Wire (press release)
Elevate won the award for its innovation in providing IPTV, cable, and OTT operators with a proven, cloud, multi-tenant solution to deliver next generation video ...

Global pay-TV subscriber reached 1.05 billion in Q2 2017
Broadband TV News
Most of the growth is coming from IPTV and linear OTT with quarter on quarter growth of 24% and 44% respectively, although Linear OTT is growing but it ...

 
Teleste to bring IPTV platform to hotel in Greece with Samsung ...
Telecompaper (subscription)
Teleste partnered Samsung Electronics to deploy an All-IP hotel TV platform to Bitzaro Grande Hotel in Zante, Greece. The deployment consists of Samsung ...

purtel.com launches IPTV platform with content4tv
Broadband TV News
The agreement enables purtel.com to equip its new IPTV platform purTV with free-to-air and pay-TV channels in SD and HD quality. The white-label product ...


Here's Why You Should Buy Rogers Communications (RCI) Stock
Nasdaq-2 hours ago
In December 2016, Rogers Communications announced plans to dump its Internet Protocol TV (IPTV) platform and adopt Comcast Corporation's (CMCSA) ...

Editor's Corner—The best and the worst of IBC 2017
FierceCable
But at IBC last week, the consensus was that such layering of OTT services on top of linear cable, satellite and IPTV platforms is about to get much quicker and ...

TV dealer who flogged Kodi boxes for illegal footie and TV streams ...
The Sun
Previously in that case, £135,173 was said to have been made from the “financial proceeds from the supply of pre-loaded IPTV boxes and premium packages”.

A Million Piracy-Enabling Kodi Boxes Have Been Sold in the UK ...
Gizmodo UK
While FACT couldn't comment on the nature of those investigations, a source told TorrentFreak that the people selling premium IPTV subscriptions are likely to ...

The premier problem of live-stream piracy
TV ASIA Plus (press release) (subscription)-14 hours ago
But web-based delivery could never fully recreate the lean-back experience of watching legitimate TV content on the big screen – until pirate IPTV devices and ...