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I've been manning the helm at FierceIPTV for almost a month now, and the vast majority of reports I've been seeing and discussions I've been party to have had to do with subscriber numbers. This Read more...
SureWest climbs Everest to new IPTV heights
SureWest Communications posted 180 percent growth in IPTV subscribers during the first quarter, but before you start copying their marketing materials, consider that most of that growth--about 172 Read more...
ALSO NOTED: DT adds 38,000 IPTV customers; Orange hits 1.41 million subs; and much more...
> German telco Deutsche Telekom reported that it signed up 38,000 new IPTV subscribers during the first quarter. Article > France Read more...
Comcast takes video hit, but adds telephony subs
Is video becoming a point of market weakness for cable TV companies? That could be the case if we decide to invest in the trend suggested by Comcast's first quarter 2008 earnings report last week. Read more...
KPN adds 56,000 IPTV customers in Q1
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 pick Verimatrix for PC TV play
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...
Verizon posts 263K TV customer boost
Verizon Communications this week reported a 9.8% increase in profit for the first quarter of 2008. Verizon said net income totaled $1.64 billion, with revenue rising about 5.5%. Much of the growth Read more...
SureWest chooses ADB set-top boxes
Independent telco SureWest Communications will deploy HDTV set-top boxes with DVR capabilities from Advanced Digital Broadcast. The telco, one of the pioneering IPTV players in the U.S. market, Read more...
AT&T adds 148,000 U-verse TV customers
AT&T said in its first-quarter earnings report today that it gained about 148,000 U-verse TV subscribers during the quarter, bringing its total IPTV service tally to about 379,000. Though Verizon Read more...
NAB: Will online TV movement hurt IPTV?
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...
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