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Dutch telco KPN Telecom reported that it signed up 56,000 new IPTV customers during its first quarter, a boost that now gives the company about 553,000 IPTV subscribers. The main IPTV competition in Read more...

IOL Netcom, a telco in India with more than 250,000 IPTV subscribers, is offering the ViewRight PC Player from Verimatrix to support a second-screen video service for personal computers. the telco is Read more...

France Telecom's Orange will launch IPTV service in the U.K. sometime this year, according to comments from the company's CEO at last week's Mip TV trade show. Though Orange already has launched IPTV Read more...

Korea's three biggest telecoms say they'll to spend upward of $15.8 billion on IPTV this year, nearly 68 percent of which will be used to expand and improve broadband networks, the Korea Times Read more...

Nortel earlier this month showcased a handful of video solutions at the IPTV World Forum in London that give telecoms an opportunity to get back in the IPTV game with services like click-to-call that Read more...

Three research groups have predicted widely different take-up rates for IPTV. Most bullish is India-based RNCOS that says a surge in the Asian-Pacific zone will see IPTV subscribers reach 103 Read more...

Two big international deployments come as the year closes, with Brazil Telecom and Italy's Wind launching their IPTV networks. Brasil Telecom's Videon IPTV has used UTStarcom to provide the end to Read more...

Slovenian TUS TELEKOM, has selected Dreampark's Dreamgallery as the middleware for their Eastern European IPTV solution, confirming Dreampark's strength in the European middleware sector. Dreampark Read more...

Spanish owned UK Mobile operator, Telefonica O2, is to begin playing in the IPTV space and is looking for modest investments in early start up video 2.0 businesses and mobile advertising. O2 UK Read more...

Over in the mother country it seems everyone is struggling to get their IPTV numbers. As recently as May Virgin promised to be on air next year in its ambitious triple play to cover the spots in the Read more...