IPTV is picking up steam with two companies, Apple and ZTE, a Chinese firm, tossing their hats into the ring.
ZTE will use encoding solutions from Optibase to create an end to end IPTV service.
It will also utilise the Optibase Media Gateway IPTV encoding platforms that can support H.264 to broadcast channels over the [...]

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ZTE and Apple get into IPTV

Telecoms provider Belgacom, in Belgium, decided to extend its free IPTV trial service for Belgacom TV.
The trial is open to both existing and new customers who sign up for telephone and broadband services and was first opened to the public on July 11th.
Those who have a subscription to Belgacom Internet or the telephone [...]

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Free IPTV from Belgacom Belgium

iiNet, an Australian ISP, had been forced to delay its new IPTV service until 2010 because the company has not yet chosen a set top box that it wants to issue to subscribers.
Managing director Michael Malone stated that although the company had planned to launch the new IPTV service by Christmas of this year, he [...]

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Lack of set top box holds back Australian IPTV

Sky is even more outraged at the BBC now than it was when the company first wrote that the BBC’s IPTV offering was tailored at those who don’t want to pay for TV, as it claims the BBC Trust is not acting as an independent regulator properly in Project Canvas due to a conflict of [...]

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Sky still angry about Project Canvas

Swisscom has watched its subscriber rates double for its IPTV ‘Bluewin TV’ service in the last year.
According to its reports, subscribers increased from 80,000 in 2008 to 165,000 in June of 2009, with 26,000 of the new subscribers signing up in Q2 of this year.
The company also stated that 85% of the new [...]

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Swisscom doubles IPTV viewers