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NEWS IPTV & Cable
expanded U-verse availability in the Southeast
region. AT&T U-verse High Speed Internet Max
Turbo is available to residential customers for
US$ 65 a month, along with AT&T U-verse TV.
USA TO HAVE 15.5 MILLION IPTV
SUBSCRIBERS BY 2013
Strategy Analytics announced in its market
research “United States IPTV Market Sizing:
2009-2013,” that the U.S. IPTV market segment
is expected to have 15.5 million subscribers
and $15 billion in service revenues by 2013.
L A T I N A M E R I C A
IPTV TO BECOME LEADING PAY-
TV PLATFORM BY 2014
The Latin American pay-TV market will experience
a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of
almost 11% between 2009 and 2014, according
to a new series of reports from Signals
Telecom Consulting, with IPTV predicted to
become the region’s premium pay-TV platform,
focusing on high purchasing power customers
and vertical market segments. This will
result in operators such as UNE and Telmex
migrating their CATV users to IPTV offered
over HFC networks. IPTV growth in the region
is predicted to accelerate from 2010.
UTSTARCOM EYES REGIONAL
IPTV OPPORTUNITIES
IP networking solutions provider UTStarcom is
expecting to see a boom in IPTV deployments
in 2010, according to Diego Martinez, Americas
VP and general manager for UTStarcom.
Martinez said that Latin America still faces many
challenges for IPTV to take off, such as the
quality of last mile access as well as regulatory
issues. However, that scenario would appear to
be changing in some countries like Argentina.
BAHAMAS
IPSI TO LAUNCH IPTV DURING 2010
Nassau-based firm IP Solutions International
(IPSI) has been granted the first triple-play licence
in the Bahamas, with the company expected
to launch its IPTV and broadband services in
the first quarter of 2010. The company reportedly
plans to offer IPTV (both live and VOD),
gaming and VoIP services to customers.
CHILE
TELEFONICA DEL SUR OPTS FOR
LATENS CONDITIONAL ACCESS
Latens announced in December 2009 that
Telefónica del Sur (Telsur), Chile’s pioneering
telecommunications company now have over
25,000 IPTV subscribers. Launched in July 2007,
Telsur’s WiTV IPTV service is now in the second
phase of deployment which sees the company
heavily investing in upgrading and expanding
their network and IPTV services and feature set.
Telsur offers 120 channels of SD digital TV with
EPG, parental control and VOD capabilities.
COSTA RICA
ICE TO LAUNCH IPTV IN 2010
The Contraloria General de la Republica
has given the Instituto Costarricense de
Electricidad (ICE) the green light to provide
IPTV services, endorsing a USD 19.6 million
contract between the state institution and
ITS Servicios de Infocomunicacion for the
purchase of the requisite equipment. Now it
has received the green light, ICE says the
service will be launched in June 2010.
VENEZUELA
CAN-TV PREPARES IPTV,
DTH SERVICES IN 2010
CanTV aims to launch pay-TV services over both
IPTV and satellite technology next year, the government
said in a statement in December. CanTV
has already deployed 1,666 satellite stations
nationwide through which the company expects
to provide new communications services to the
national market and other countries across the
region, via Venezuela’s own Venesat-1 satellite.
A S I A & P A C I F I C
IPTV SET FOR 45% GROWTH IN MIDDLE EAST
According to Dominic McGill, the organiser of the
Middle East Television (METV) exhibition and
conference, the Middle East is also showing signs
of swift adoption of IPTV, with 45% year-on-year
growth reported in 2008. The demand is being
driven by the increasing availability of cutting-edge
convergence technology across voice, data and
multimedia solutions. Etisalat is reported to be
in the finals stages of a FTTH network covering
the city of Abu Dhabi. The project, dubbed
eLite, would make Abu Dhabi the first 100%
FTTH-connected capital city in the world.
ETISALAT, ENDAVO TEAM UP FOR
ONLINE VIDEO PLATFORM
Endavo Media has signed a multi-year platform
licensing deal with Etisalat to install Endavo`s platform
to support the roll-out of an IP-based overthe-top
(OTT) video delivery infrastructure over
its own Internet and wireless networks. Etisalat
will market its video services to broadcasters and
content producers across 17 countries, including
all of the Middle East and part of North Africa.
IPTV SUBSCRIBER BASE TO
GROW 51% IN ASIA PACIFIC
The IPTV subscriber base in the Asia-Pacific
region is expected to grow by 51% this year,
according to research and consulting firm Frost
& Sullivan, closing 2009 at 9.4 million users and
accounting for 37.6% of the global subscribers.
The IPTV subscriber base in the region will grow at
a compound annual growth rate of 24.6% annually
between 2009 and 2014, climbing to an estimated
23.5 million subscribers by the end of 2014. Frost &
Sullivan believe that as much as 62% of the IPTV
subscriber net additions from now until 2014 will
come from emerging markets like China, Indonesia,
Vietnam, India, Thailand and the Philippines.
ANEVIA AND BNS TEAM UP
FOR IPTV DEPLOYMENT
Anevia and BNS have combined their expertise to
provide Asian hospitality, broadcast and telecom
service providers with high performance TV and
video solutions. The Anevia-BNS partnership has
already generated interest among IPTV service
providers, leading to deployments in Singapore,
Macau, the Philippines, Indonesia and Taiwan,
where the companies’ solutions are powering
Taiwan’s first ever HD-IPTV service for local
operator Max Media. The first phase roll out to
1,500 homes was completed in early November.
AUSTRALIA
IINET TO OFFER IPTV FROM 2010
iiNet has boosted its metropolitan network
capacity with new routers installed across the
country, as the company moves forwards with
its plans to start offering IPTV services from
the first quarter of 2010. The operator has
installed the new Juniper Networks’ MX series
routers in its metro network exchanges across
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the country’s largest cities, with capacity rising
in some areas from 1 Gbps to 10 Gbps.
TELSTRA SELECTS NETGEM
BOXES FOR IPTV SERVICE
Telstra has selected Netgem to supply the settop
boxes and software for its upcoming IPTV
service called T-Box, which will offer live and VOD
content from its BigPond brand to its broadband
subscribers. The operator will offer content
from the BigPond brand along with Australia’s
free-to-air terrestrial channels (in both HD and
SD). The new set-top box features twin tuners for
watching one channel whilst recording another,
as well as time-shifting and PVR features.
NBN TO BOOST IPTV LAUNCHES
IN AUSTRALIA
Australia’s proposed National Broadband
Network (NBN) will help boost the number of
IPTV launches in the country, according to
Frost & Sullivan, with 235,000 IPTV subscribers
predicted for the country by 2014, while New
Zealand is also predicted to have 141,000 IPTV
subscribers by 2014 as a result of its own new
broadband network. Work on the new Australian
broadband network has already initiated, with
Tasmania to be the first state to initiate the rollout.
CHINA
SHANGAI TELECOM WITH 850,000
IPTV SUBSCRIBERS
Shanghai Telecom reached 850,000 IPTV subscribers
as of the end of October, according to Beijing-based
firm Marbridge Consulting. The number
of IPTV subscribers across all of China stood at
2.1 million at end-2008, of which China Telecom
accounted for 1.6mn and China Unicom (formerly
China Netcom, which was merged with China
Unicom in October 2008) accounted for 500,000.
INDIA
BSNL PLANS PAN-INDIAN IPTV SERVICES
BSNL has signed an agreement with the SmarTV
Group for the launch of pan-India IPTV services,
following a test launch of the service in a
handful of major cities. No financial details of the
deal have been disclosed. BSNL has said that it
hopes to increase its IPTV subscriber base by as
much as 100,000 by March 2010. The SmarTV
Group has also entered a long-term contract with
MTNL for the delivery of similar IPTV services.
MTNL recently launched pre-paid IPTV services
for all of its subscribers in Delhi and Mumbai.
INDONESIA
PT TO LAUNCH IPTV ON
DEMAND SERVICE IN 2010
PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia (Telkom) is to
launch of an Internet service that will allow users
to watch their favorite programs whenever they
want on their TV sets or computers. The new
IPTV service will be operational in 2010, and
after two to three years, we aim to have attracted
around 40% of our 8.7 million fixed-line subscribers,”
said Rinaldi Firmansyah, Telkom’s president
director. He added that Telkom currently has
around a million phone lines that can use the
IPTV system. IPTV will initially be available only in
Jakarta, but will be offered in five more locations,
including Surabaya, Medan and Bali, by 2011.
NEW ZEALAND
TANDBERG POWERS NEW VOD SERVICE
Hybrid Television Services (ANZ) is deploying a
complete suite of Tandberg Television software
solutions to enable carrier class VOD to the televi-