02-03 - TELE-satellite International Magazine
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value-added services, and Dolby Digital loop-through for delivery<br />
of high quality sound to a home cinema system.<br />
RUSSIA<br />
IPTV SUBSCRIBERS TO DOUBLE BZ 2012<br />
According to a report by research company J’son&Partners, 600,000<br />
Russian households will have IPTV by 2012, a twofold increase from<br />
2007. Revenue from providing the IPTV service will reach US$ 19 million<br />
in 2008, increasing to US$ 56 million in 2012. The largest operators<br />
in the Russian IPTV sector in the first half of 2008 were Stream-TV,<br />
which accounted for 61% of the market, and Svyazinvest (31%).<br />
EUTELSAT TO COMPENSATE SHORTAGE<br />
OF SATELLITE CAPACITY<br />
The Space Communications company is short of <strong>satellite</strong>s to guarantee<br />
communications and TV broadcasting throughout Russia,<br />
according to its deputy general director Ksenia Drozdova. Satellite<br />
use is approaching 100%, while five out of the 10 <strong>satellite</strong>s<br />
used by the company have reached the limit of their service life.<br />
With the goal of bridging the problem, Eutelsat and Space Communications<br />
have reached a deal on the assignment of <strong>satellite</strong>s<br />
for guaranteeing communications in Russian territory, with the<br />
W2 <strong>satellite</strong> to be placed at the use of the Russian company.<br />
REDCOM BRINGS HDTV TO FAR EAST REGION<br />
Consumers in Russia’s eastern region of Khabarovsk will now be<br />
able to enjoy affordable access to HDTV, VOD and other multimedia<br />
services through a Metro Multiservice Transport Network (MMTN)<br />
that is based on Cisco technology. Redcom, Khabarovsk’s leading<br />
telecommunications service provider, has implemented a strong<br />
network backbone that is scalable and fault-tolerant with high levels<br />
of security, selecting Cisco’s Ethernet Fiber to the Home solution<br />
with Metro Ethernet technology. With Metro Ethernet, Redcom can<br />
now also differentiate traffic, offer flexible billing options to consumers,<br />
and expand bandwidth to meet peaks in service demand.<br />
SCANDINAVIA<br />
TELIASONERA RACHES 450,000 IPTV SUBSCRIBERS<br />
TeliaSonera added 23,000 IPTV customers in the third quarter of<br />
2008 across all regions to bring its total to 450,000, with over half<br />
of its IPTV customer base in Sweden paying to receive the service.<br />
In Sweden, more than 100,000 new subscriptions year-on-year<br />
were added to reach 320,000, however the company reported<br />
no growth on a quarter-on-quarter comparison in the country.<br />
TeliaSonera had a total of 839,000 digital TV subscribers across<br />
all regions, including its cable TV operations in Denmark.<br />
AMINO ACQUIRES TILGIN’S IPTV BUSINESS<br />
Set-top box supplier Amino Technologies has acquired Tilgi’s<br />
IPTV business, paying 30 million Swedish Kronor (US$ 3.6 million)<br />
for the Swedish vendor’s loss-making IPTV set-top box<br />
business, which has sold and delivered 500,000 units to date.<br />
Tilgin has between 10 and 15 customers, mostly in Europe, with<br />
very little overlap between the two firms’ customer bases.<br />
SPAIN<br />
REGULATOR SUSPENDS <strong>TELE</strong>FONICA’S TRIPLE-PLAY<br />
The Spanish Telecommunications Market Commission (CMT)<br />
has temporarily suspended Telefónica from providing commercial<br />
services, including IPTV and Internet access, over its new fibre-tothe-home<br />
(FTTH) network, following a complaint lodged by Orange<br />
España. Orange España claims that Telefónica has not finalised<br />
wholesale access terms for the network infrastructure, and the<br />
CMT determined that services may only be launched on the new<br />
network once it is satisfied that agreements with alternative providers<br />
have been reached for access to the network. Telefónica<br />
recently launched trials on the network in Madrid and Barcelona to<br />
test Internet access at 30 Mbps, as part of a triple-play offer that<br />
includes its IPTV service Imagenio. Telefónica is thought to have<br />
planned to reach more than 1,000 FTTH clients by the end of 2009.<br />
<strong>TELE</strong>FONICA LAUNCHES IMAGENIO HD<br />
Telefónica has launched a new high-definition service for its IPTV service<br />
Imagenio, available to those IPTV subscribers which are connected<br />
to its new fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network. All subscribers which have<br />
signed for a Trío Futura 10 or 30 Mbps connection are receiving an HDcapable<br />
set-top box, and the new Imagenio HD service currently offers<br />
the channel AXN in high-definition. Telefónica reportedly plans to gradu-
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