Broadband ISPs news from FierceIPTV

French broadband service provider Iliad is engaging in exclusive negotiations to acquire Telecom Italia's French network business, Liberty Surf Group SAS, aslo known as Alice France, for about $1.3 Read more...

For those of you who heard about Sezmi Corp. while walking around the National Association of Broadcasters show in Las Vegas last month, and didn't recognize the name, the company is actually video Read more...

The National Association of Broadcasters trade show last week in Las Vegas appeared from some press coverage to be more of a telco IPTV meet-up. While there was plenty of positive chatter, there was Read more...

No one could accuse U.S. broadcasters of rushing to the Internet. Slowly but surely the big media brands are putting content packages on web-based channels, but with emphasis on the slowly. Read more...

India's largest private telco, Airtel, plans to launch an IPTV-ready network later this year in five cities. The network will run at 8mbps and follows a successful trial of a 1,000 homes. Airtel has Read more...

A pair of reports from Cisco and ABI Research are fueling speculation that broadband video sites are going to choke off the Internet. Cisco, the Silicon Valley backbone player said peer-to-peer and Read more...

BigBand Networks, the digital video platform provider in Redwood City, Calif., reported that it's demonstrating switched digital video capability at the CableLabs conference this week in Keystone, Read more...

U.K. broadband ISP Freedom2Surf has inked a deal with Aggregator, a pay-TV platform that makes use of PCs and hybrid set-top boxes, to offer Internet TV. Aggregator typically specializes in offering Read more...

News Corp. and its majority-owned DirecTV business are reportedly embarking on an ambitious plan to set up a nationwide WiMAX network in the U.S. through strategic partners. And one likely Read more...

As a follow-up study to last week's Infonetics report on triple play capex, the research firm has now estimated that IPTV equipment sales hit $400 million last year and are set to top $6 billion Read more...