IPTV is About Broadband, Not TV says Pyramid Research
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
30, 2005--Successful IPTV is more about selling broadband than about selling television, argues Pyramid Research's report "Transforming Telcos With IPTV ...

FastWeb presents second generation IPTV service
Telecom Paper (subscription) - Houten,Netherlands
Italian broadband operator FastWeb has presented new dedicated navigation and TV interaction instruments for its IPTV clients. On ...

Intercom TV licenses Amino set-top boxes
DMasia.com - Montigny sur Loing,France
The licence agreement allows Intercom to manufacture and supply Amino's MPEG2 and MPEG4 IPTV set-top boxes in Russia, Kazakhstan and the Ukraine. ...

KyLinTV Premiere of 'A Jewel in the Palace'
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
IPTV Service Is First to Offer Top Rated Drama as Video-On-Demand PLAINVIEW, NY, Nov. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- KyLinTV, Inc. today announced ...

FTC Selects Extreme
Light Reading - USA
... The new network has to be capable of supporting emerging IPTV services using wire speed Layer 2 Ethernet with non-stop forwarding, traffic prioritization and ...

SMG, Shanghai telecom to launch IPTV
CCTV - Beijing,China
The business will be the first to offer IPTV commercially in China. The new services will be launched next month in the city's Minhang and Pudong districts. ...

China Telecom Partners With Changhong For IPTV
Pacific Epoch (subscription) - Hong Kong,Hong Kong
China Telecom (NYSE: CHA, 0728.HK) and Changhong (600398.SH) signed a cooperation agreement on Monday to jointly promote IPTV, reports Chinanews. ...
IPTV not yet a killer app
VNUNet.com - Haarlem,Netherlands
IPTV enjoyed subscriber growth of around 40 per cent in the first six months of 2005, with the total number of global paying web TV subscribers reaching 1.5m ...

TI Unveils IPTV Lineup
Light Reading - USA
ROME -- Starting December 2, Telecom Italia launches TV on the Internet (IPTV - Internet Protocol TV), enabling access to movies, sports, news, music and ...

DB Finds Telecom Italia IPTV Very Expensive
New Ratings - USA
1716 GMT [Dow Jones] Deutsche Bank finds Telecom Italia's (TI) new IPTV EUR45.90 monthly offer "surprisingly" expensive considering the nature of its package. ...

IPTV in Europe Sees France as the Leading Country with Future ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
... and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c28598) has announced the addition of Screen Digest's latest report: European IPTV: Market Assessment ...

SupportSoft and Thomson Team to Automate IPTV, VoIP and Broadband ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
... for "zero-touch configuration" of DSL CPE, as well as online, easy-to-install customer-driven installation for either new VoIP or IPTV service upgrades at a ...

Telecom Italia to launch IPTV on Friday
TeleGeography - Washington,D.C.,USA
Telecom Italia will launch its IPTV service on 2 December, offering users in four cities premium broadcast content direct to their TV sets via DSL. ...

SMG Prepares For Shanghai IPTV Services
Pacific Epoch (subscription) - Hong Kong,Hong Kong
Shanghai Media Group (SMG) announced on Monday that it will officially launch IPTV service in Shanghai's Minhang District and the Pudong New Area in December ...

Telecom Italia to launch IPTV on 2 December
Telecom Paper (subscription) - Houten,Netherlands
... current 4 Mbps access. Telecom Italia is planning to invest around EUR 350 million for the IPTV project. Speaking during the presentation ...

IPTV comes into commercial use in Shanghai
Shanghai Daily - Shanghai,China
... The IPTV service will charge 60 yuan (US$7.42) a month, said Shen Hongbo, assistant to the general manager of Shanghai Telecom. ...

Orca Hires Industry Vet
Light Reading - USA
RA'ANANA, Israel -- Orca Interactive (LSE:ORCA - News), a global market leader in developing middleware and applications for IPTV, today announced that Dr ...

Report: IPTV a Potential Goldmine
Light Reading - USA
According to a new Light Reading Insider report, "IPTV: Where the Money Is," technology vendors, and especially the likes of Alcatel (NYSE: ALA - message ...

Japanese broadcasters in IPTV talks
C21Media - London,England,UK
NEWS BRIEF: Japan's biggest advertising agency, Dentsu, has entered discussions with five of the country's leading broadcasters over plans to establish a joint ...

IPTV: all about the hype
Telecom Asia Daily / Wireless Asia - Hong Kong
The IPTV hype juggernaut is in full force. ... If that wasn't enough, IPTV even got its own separate event at this week's IPTV Asia Forum. ...

Telecom Italia IPTV Offer Looks Expensive
New Ratings - USA
1545 GMT [Dow Jones] Telecom Italia's (TI) new IPTV offer looks expensive, says a telecom analyst. TI announced Monday the rollout ...

SMG mulls production of IPTV phones
EastDay.com - Shanghai,China
... sole license-holder for Internet Protocol Television business, will itself manufacture terminal handsets for watching mobile TV with the IPTV service, thus ...

Amino Provides Trading
Light Reading - USA
... clearly that the results for the current year would be biased heavily towards the end of the year and noted the relative immaturity of the IPTV market with the ...

Video-on-demand to break $10bn barrier
Silicon.com - UK
... However, a recent report from research firm Screen Digest suggests IPTV will see an increase in popularity. The report found that ...

BNS Showcases Innovative MPEG-4 Based Middleware Solution For IPTV
StreamingMedia.com - Wilton,CT,USA
Hong Kong (November 25, 2005) - Leading IPTV enabler Broadband Network Systems Ltd (BNS) will showcase a complete IPTV solution with innovative MPEG-4 standard ...