08-09 - TELE-satellite International Magazine
08-09 - TELE-satellite International Magazine
08-09 - TELE-satellite International Magazine
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services reached EUR 7 per month for the first quarter of this year,<br />
up 16.7% year-on-year. KPN says it had 246.000 subscribers to its<br />
triple-play services by the end of March 20<strong>09</strong>, up 33% year-on-year.<br />
POLAND<br />
TPSA ARRIVES TO 86.000 IPTV SUBSCRIBERS<br />
TPSA ended the first quarter of this year with 198.000 subscribers<br />
to its pay-TV services (delivered via IPTV and <strong>satellite</strong>), compared<br />
to 113.000 customers three months previously and giving a fourfold<br />
increase from the first quarter of 20<strong>08</strong>. Out of this total, the company<br />
had 112.000 subscribers for its recently-launched <strong>satellite</strong> TV<br />
service and 86.000 subscribers to its IPTV service ‘Videostrada’.<br />
PORTUGAL<br />
PORTUGAL <strong>TELE</strong>COM SELECTS ALCATEL-LUCENT, HUAWEI<br />
Alcatel-Lucent has been selected by Portugal Telecom to deploy the<br />
company’s fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network. The next generation<br />
network (NGN) will be based on Alcatel-Lucent’s gigabit passive optical<br />
network (GPON) technology providing customers with access to<br />
high speed broadband and HDTV. Portugal Telecom has also selected<br />
Huawei Technologies to assist in the development of its FTTH network.<br />
The new FTTH network is expected to enable Portugal Telecom to<br />
increase the efficiency and quality of services such as high-definition<br />
IPTV, high-speed Internet and advanced IP telephony services.<br />
RUSSIA<br />
VIMPELCOM LAUNCHES BEELINE IPTV<br />
VimpelCom has announced the availability of its Beeline IPTV service,<br />
which comes about one year after the company said its subsidiary, Corbina<br />
Telecom, was working with Microsoft on a trial of IPTV over the vendor’s<br />
Mediaroom platform. The Beeline brand currently has more than<br />
800.000 broadband subscribers in Russia alone. The new service will<br />
have 125 channels, about 3,000 on-demand titles and PVR functionality.<br />
NORTH-WEST <strong>TELE</strong>COM LAUNCHES AVANGARD TV<br />
North-West Telecom has launched its IPTV service Avangard-TV<br />
in the city of Kaliningrad, featuring linear and VOD content, PVR<br />
services, replay options and a TV archive. North-West Telecom<br />
recently reached nearly 6.000 subscribers for Avangard-TV by the<br />
middle of last month, which it launched commercially in December<br />
2007 to its customer base in the north-west of Russia.<br />
SLOVENIA<br />
<strong>TELE</strong>KOM SLOVENIJE WITH 95.300 IPTV SUBSCRIBERS<br />
Telekom Slovenije reported that IPTV customers grew from 53.400<br />
in March 20<strong>08</strong> to 95.300 in March 20<strong>09</strong>. This figure means that<br />
more than 45 per cent of its 2<strong>09</strong>.000 broadband customers have<br />
also signed up for IPTV services. The IPTV subscriber base grew<br />
mostly thanks to the rollout of higher-speed broadband, including<br />
FTTH. Rival T-2 ended 20<strong>08</strong> with about 75.000 IPTV customers.<br />
SPAIN<br />
IMAGENIO TO CAPTURE 70% OF IPTV MARKET BY 2023<br />
Telefónica will control 70% of the country’s IPTV market by 2023,<br />
leaving 30% to competitors Orange and Jazztelia, according to a<br />
new report on the Spanish fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) market from<br />
telecoms regulator CMT. Telefónica controlled 100% of the market in<br />
2006, according to the report, and now holds around 85% due to the<br />
subsequent entry into the market of Jazztelia and Orange. Imagenio<br />
is expected to continue losing market share as the rival services grow,<br />
but will retain two in every three Spanish IPTV subscribers. The<br />
CMT believes that access to premium content will help Telefónica<br />
hold onto a 70% market share by 2023, despite Orange and Jazztelia<br />
potentially doubling their subscriber bases by the end of the period.<br />
UNITED KINGDOM<br />
MOVE NETWORKS ACQUIRES INUK NETWORKS<br />
US online video specialist Move Networks has acquired Inuk Networks,<br />
the UK-based company backed by Welsh broadcaster S4C that’s<br />
aiming to roll out an IPTV version of Freeview. Move, which counts<br />
ABC, ESPN, Fox , The CW, ProSieben and Televisa among its existing<br />
broadcast clients, is taking its first major stride into the UK with the<br />
Inuk buy-out, the terms of which were not disclosed. Inuk launched<br />
Freewire – billed as an IPTV equivalent to UK DTT platform Freeview