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PORTUGAL<br />
VODAFONE PORTUGAL ADDS 6<br />
CHANNELS TO IPTV SERVICE<br />
Vodafone Portugal has expanded its TV service,<br />
“Casa TV”, with nine new channels:<br />
TVI24 (information); KidsCo (kids), Economic<br />
TV HD and SD TV (economic news), Yes Italia<br />
(travel), JimJam (children), The Food Network<br />
(cuisine) and Brava HDTV (music), all included<br />
in the basic Pack TV. Also, the Sport TV English<br />
League (football) has been included in the<br />
Pack Sport TV HD at no additional cost.<br />
RUSSIA<br />
VIMPELCOM SIGNS VOD DEAL<br />
WITH WARNER BROS<br />
VimpelCom has signed a long-term agreement<br />
with Warner Brothers Digital Distribution under<br />
which the latter’s content will be added to the<br />
VOD library of its IPTV service Beeline TV. The<br />
content deal includes recent movies such as<br />
“Clash of the Titans” and “Valentine’s Day”, with<br />
rental costing RUB 75 (US$ 2.45), and older films<br />
such as “The Matrix”, “Lord of the Rings”, “Harry<br />
Potter” and “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”.<br />
VOLGA <strong>TELE</strong>COM TO INCREASE<br />
FTTH CAPACITY IN SAMARA<br />
VolgaTelecom has announced plans to expand<br />
its FTTB network in the Samara region to<br />
100,000 broadband ports by the end of the<br />
year. The operator has already deployed<br />
65,000 access ports in Samara, Tolyatti,<br />
Syzran, Novokuybyshevsk and other locations.<br />
VolgaTelecom has also confirmed that it has<br />
started testing its IPTV services in the region.<br />
TURKEY<br />
TTNET AND MOTOROLA<br />
LAUNCH NEW IPTV STB<br />
Motorola has started the first commercial deployment<br />
of its VIP1002E/F Series IPTV set-top with<br />
TTNet in Turkey. The VIP1002E/F will offer TTNet’s<br />
customers next-generation services such as<br />
pausing live TV, a feature normally found on higher<br />
specification digital video recorder (DVR) set-tops.<br />
UNITED KINGDOM<br />
PROJECT CANVAS TO LAUNCH<br />
YOUVIEW IN 2011<br />
YouView TV, formerly Project Canvas, is a joint-venture<br />
between the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, BT, TalkTalk,<br />
Arqiva and Channel 5. It will launch subscriptionfree<br />
set-top boxes in 2011, giving customers catchup<br />
programming from the previous seven days,<br />
plus on-demand services and interactive functions.<br />
The boxes will include a PVR so viewers can pause<br />
and record series. The YouView partners hope it<br />
will create an open standard platform for UK online<br />
services like the BBC iPlayer and 4 on-Demand.<br />
BBC CLAIMS IPTV COULD PUSH<br />
UP BROADBAND PRICES<br />
Broadband prices in the UK could be driven up if<br />
IPTV catches on, according to the director general<br />
of the BBC, Mark Thompson. He admitted that the<br />
prevalence of IPTV may result in consumers paying<br />
more for their broadband. However, Thompson<br />
insisted there may be some advantages to any price<br />
hikes, as they could encourage internet service providers<br />
such as Sky and Virgin Media to invest more<br />
in the UK’s broadband networks. This would enable<br />
the infrastructure to cope better with the high bandwidth<br />
and speed requirements of IPTV services.<br />
N O R T H A M E R I C A<br />
CANADA<br />
BELL LAUNCHES IPTV SERVICE<br />
Bell Canada has officially launched its new IPTV<br />
service Fibe TV, offering premium content (including<br />
HD titles), interactive features and whole home<br />
PVR capabilities. The new service is initially being<br />
made available in select neighbourhoods in Toronto<br />
and Montréal, delivered over the fibre-based<br />
network and powered by the Microsoft Mediaroom<br />
middleware platform. Fibe TV is expected to be<br />
available to 5 million Canadian households by the<br />
end of 2015. At launch, the service offers over 100<br />
HD channels, as well as more than 70 international<br />
channels and over 20 thematic packages.<br />
MTS TV SERVICE ENABLES WATCHING<br />
OF MULTIPLE CHANNELS<br />
MTS TV has added two new services which allow<br />
Ultimate TV subscribers the ability to watch multiple<br />
channels simultaneously. Ultimate Picks lets TV<br />
viewers watch up to six channels from a predetermined<br />
number of popular channels while My Picks<br />
allows customers to customize up to five of their<br />
own picks. MTS expects My Picks to be especially<br />
attractive to football fans, which will be able to track<br />
of six NFL Sunday Ticket games at once (the five<br />
games selected plus the one you’re watching) without<br />
having to flip back and forth through channels.<br />
UNITED STATES<br />
INTERNET BASED HDTV SERVICE LAUNCHED<br />
FilmOn.com Founder and Chairman, Alki David,<br />
has launched its Virtual Cable Website, which is<br />
going to offer the U.S. consumers a revolutionary<br />
way to watch HDTV on the PC or mobile device.<br />
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